Book ID: CBB001201926

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600--1850 (2011)

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Parthasarathi, Prasannan (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xviii + 365 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialized from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than different, both characterized by sophisticated and growing economies. Their subsequent divergence can be attributed to different competitive and ecological pressures that in turn produced varied state policies and economic outcomes. This account breaks with conventional views, which hold that divergence occurred because Europe possessed superior markets, rationality, science, or institutions. It offers instead 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.

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Authors & Contributors
Dell'Oro, Giorgio
Bhattacharyya, Debjani
Sinha, Nitin
Sinha, Arvind
Rappaport, Erika
Ferguson, Dean T.
Concepts
Colonialism
Technology and economics
Science and industry
Science and economics
Great Britain, colonies
Technology and industry
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
20th century, early
Enlightenment
Places
India
Europe
Asia
China
United States
Great Britain
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
British East India Company
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