The Mediterranean Response to Globalization before 1950 (Routledge Explorations in Economic History, 18)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 12
List of contributors......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Globalization challenge and economic response in the Mediterranean......Page 22
Long-run growth: a comparative assessment......Page 34
How poor was the European periphery before 1850? The Mediterranean vs Scandinavia......Page 36
Real wages and relative factor prices around the Mediterranean, 1500  1940......Page 64
European economic development: the core and the southern periphery, 1870  1910......Page 95
Long-run growth: country studies......Page 126
Growth and retardation in Ottoman Macedonia, 1880  1910......Page 128
The choice of technology: Spanish, Italian, British and US cotton mills compared, 1830  60......Page 153
Trade, transport and domestic production in the century before World War II......Page 176
Specialization in the international market for olive oil before World War II......Page 178
International competition and the development of the dried-fruit industry, 1880  1930......Page 218
International shipping in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea: Istanbul as a maritime centre, 1870  1910......Page 252
Pre-1914 policy choices and the political economy of growth......Page 286
Much Ado About Nothing? Italian trade policy in the late nineteenth century......Page 288
What slowed down the mass emigration from Spain before World War II? A comparison with Italy......Page 316
Interwar policy choices and the political economy of growth......Page 338
Intervention during the Great Depression: another look at Turkish experience......Page 340
Egyptian commodity markets in the age of economic liberalism......Page 359
Twentieth-century Palestine......Page 380
Economic growth and external trade in Mandatory Palestine: A special Mediterranean case......Page 382
Bibliography......Page 400
Index......Page 436