Global economic history

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Global Economic History, 1500–2000
	Economic history and its global turn
	Global economic history: Debates and questions
	World economy: The history of a concept
	The tools of global economic history
	The structure of this book
	Notes
Part 1: Divergence in Global History
	Chapter 1: The Great Divergence Debate
		Structure versus conjuncture
		How much divergence, and when?
		Discussion
		The role of institutions
		The role of science
		Telling what’s right
		The divergence debate in China and India
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 2: Data and Dating the Great Divergence
		The problem of the great divergence
		The challenge of new data
		Dutch economic growth, 1510–1800: Efflorescence or modern growth?
		British growth, 1270–1800
		Comparing divergence across cases
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 3: Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Europe and China
		Natural philosophy and the transition to science in the West
		Conclusion: China and Europe
		Notes
	Chapter 4: Toolkits, Creativity, and Divergences: Technology in Global History
		Toolkits and travelling knowledge
		Technological creativity
		Divergences
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 5: Families, Firms, and Polities: Pre-Modern Economic Growth, and the Great Divergence
		The family and economic development
		Firms, guilds, and chartered companies
		States and empires
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 6: Plantations and the Great Divergence
		Plantations and economic growth
		The plantations and the fiscal-military state
		Imperial benefits
		The plantations and industrialization
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 7: Consumption and Global History in the Early Modern Period
		Introduction
		The Great Divergence and consumption
		Historiography: Is there an economic history of consumption?
		Inequality
		The problems with budgets, probates, orphans, and thieves
		Where is the economic history of consumption?
		The case of textiles
		Conclusion
		Notes
Part 2: The Emergence of a World Economy
	Chapter 8: Trade and the Emergence of a World Economy, 1500–2000
		The shape and scale of global trade
		The beginning of a global economy: The early modern period
		Industrialization and reconfiguration of world trade
		Trade and economic growth
		Trade and politics, 1500–1950
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 9: The Global Environment and the World Economy Since 1500
		Biological exchanges, 1492–1800
		The plantation regime in the Americas, 1550–1850
		The Industrial Revolution as global ecological change
		The Anthropocene
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 10: Labour Regimes and Labour Mobility from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
		Why coercion?
		Labour, contracts, and public order in Britain
		French servants
		Indentured immigrants versus slaves
		Indentured after abolition
		The great transformation of labour in the twentieth century
		Migration
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 11: Varieties of Industrialization: An asian Regional Perspective
		Initial conditions in 1820 and after
		Setting up industrialization in monsoon Asia
		Post-war diffusion of industrialization
		Development of resource-intensive industrialization
		Local resources under pressure
		Conclusion: Towards a reinterpretation of Asian industrialization in global history
		Notes
	Chapter 12: Global Commodities and Commodity Chains
		Histories of global commodities
		Commodity chains
		Global value chains
		Critiques
		Conclusion
		Notes
	CHAPTER 13: The Rise of Global Finance, 1850–2000
		The first modern globalization, 1850–1914
		Wars, depression, and regulation, 1914–73
		Innovations and deregulations, 1973–2000
		Conclusion
		Notes
Part 3: Regional Perspetives to Global Economic Change
	Chapter 14: Africa: Economic Change South of the Sahara Since C. 1500
		Period and agency in African history
		Resources, techniques, and institutions within Africa, 1500–c. 1918
		External influences: Technology and demand from 1500 to the present
		The emergence of capitalist institutions during and since colonial rule
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 15: The New World and the Global Silver Economy, 1500–1800
		Silver, trade, and the early modern world economy
		The production of silver in Latin America
		The Spanish silver trade
		Silver in Europe and Asia
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 16: Economic Change in East Asia from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
		What is East Asia?
		East Asia in the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries
		Economic change in modern East Asia
		East Asia in the shadow of the Japanese Empire
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 17: Europe in the World, 1500–2000
		A diverse continent
		Europe and globalization
		Modern economic growth
		Europe’s political economy
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 18: South Asia in the World Economy, 1600–1950
		Defining South Asia
		Europeans in South Asian trade
		The eighteenth-century transition
		British Empire and the economy of South Asia
		Measures of globalization: Volume and composition of trade
		The impact of globalization on the economy of South Asia
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 19: Changing Destinies in the Economy of Southeast Asia
		Society without state
		State-light power
		State without nation
		Conclusion: Change and continuity
		Notes
Glossary
Index