Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not : global economic divergence, 1600-1850
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- Author(s) Parthasarathi, Prasannan
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2011
- Pages 384pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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'Offers ... a groundbreaking rereading of global economic development that ranges from India, Japan and China to Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire and from the textile and coal industries to the roles of science, technology and the state', breaking 'with conventional views which hold that divergence occurred because Europe possessed superior markets, rationality, science or institutions'