Global economic history
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London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
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ROY, Tirthankar, RIELLO, Giorgio (editor/s), Global economic history, London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/65591
Abstract
What are the problems addressed by the growing field of global economic history? What debates and methodologies does it engage with? As Global Economic History shows, there are many answers to these questions. Riello and Roy, alongside 20 leading academics from the US, UK, Europe, Australia and Japan, explain why a global perspective matters to economic history. The impressive cast recruited by the editors brings together top scholars in their respective areas of expertise, including John McNeill, Patrick O'Brien, and Prasannan Parthasarathi. An ambitious scope of topics ranges from the 'Great Divergence' to the rise of global finance, to the New World and the global silver economy. Chapters are organized both thematically (Divergence in Global History and Emergence of a World Economy), and geographically (Regional Perspectives on Global Economic Change), ensuring the global perspective required on these challenging courses today. The result is a textbook which provides students with a quick and confident grasp of the field and its essential issues.
Table of Contents
-- Introduction: Global economic history, 1500-2000
-- Part I. Divergence in global history:
1. The Great Divergence debate
2. Data and dating the Great Divergence
3. Useful and reliable knowledge in Europe and China
4. Toolkits, creativity, and divergences : technology in global history
5. Families, firms, and polities : pre-modern economic growth, and the Great Divergence
6. Plantations and the Great Divergence
7. Consumption and global history in the Early Modern Period
-- Part II. The emergence of a world economy
8. Trade and the emergence of a world economy, 1500-2000
9. The global environment and the world economy since 1500
10. Labour regimes and labour mobility from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century
11. Varieties of industrialization : an Asian regional perspective
12. Global commodities and commodity chains
13. The rise of global finance, 1850-2000
-- Part III. Regional perspectives to global economic change
14. Africa : economic change south of the Sahara since c. 1500
15. The New World and the global silver economy, 1500-1800
16. Economic change in East Asia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century
17. Europe in the world, 1500-2000
18. South Asia in the world economy, 1600-1950
19. Changing destinies in the economy of Southeast Asia