TECHNOLOGY, SKILLS AND THE PRE-MODERN ECONOMY IN THE EAST AND THE WEST by Maarten Prak (Editor), Jan Luiten Zanden (Editor) ( 9789004245358 )

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Title:

TECHNOLOGY, SKILLS AND THE PRE-MODERN ECONOMY IN THE EAST AND THE WEST

By:

Maarten Prak (Editor), Jan Luiten Zanden (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

9004245359

ISBN 13:

9789004245358

Publisher:

BRILL

Pub. date:

30 May, 2013

Series:

Global Economic History Series 10

Pages:

354

Description:

Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates, through regional studies and paired comparisons, how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution.

Synopsis:

Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. The book offers regional surveys of Europe, China and India, as well as comparative studies of building, porcelain manufacturing, instrument making, printing, and shipbuilding. The authors engage with the on-going debate about the `great divergence' between Asia and Europe, and its possible causes. Technology has so far had a minor role in that debate. This book is bound to change that, through the bold claims made by various contributors.Contributors are: Karel Davids, S.R. Epstein , Gijs Kessler, Jan Lucassen, Christine Moll-Murata, Patrick O'Brien, Kenneth Pomeranz, Maarten Prak, Tirthankar Roy, Richard Unger, and Jan Luiten van Zanden.

Publication:

Netherlands

Imprint:

Brill

Returns:

Non-returnable

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