
Atlas of Material Life
Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th century- Autor:innen:
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- Verlag:
- 2020
Zusammenfassung
Large-scale comparative economic history of westernmost and easternmost Eurasia can be beneficial for the understanding of global history. This book provides a description of material life in North-western Europe and East Asia, for the period from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, with a focus on developments in Great Britain and the Dutch Republic on the one hand and China and Japan on the other hand. With maps, tables, graphs and figures as a prominent and integral part of the book, it provides information, in an accessible format, on the main characteristics of the economic landscape of this period. It demonstrates the constraints to which all pre-industrial economies were subjected because of their dependence on organic natural resources but also the different ways in which the societies discussed dealt with those constraints. To provide a better understanding of this economy of limited possibilities, the final chapter of the book is devoted to the emergence of modern economic growth in Western Europe.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Auflage
- 1/2020
- Copyrightjahr
- 2020
- ISBN-Print
- 978-90-8728-354-4
- ISBN-Online
- 978-94-006-0392-9
- Verlag
- Leiden University Press, Leiden
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 346
- Produkttyp
- Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- TABLE OF CONTENTS Kein Zugriff
- A BRIEF INTRODUCTION Kein Zugriff Seiten 9 - 16
- Sizes Kein Zugriff
- Physical geography Kein Zugriff
- Weather and climate Kein Zugriff
- The tyranny of distance Kein Zugriff
- The variability and unpredictability of life in the pre-industrial world Kein Zugriff
- Population and population density Kein Zugriff
- Life expectancy, health and disease Kein Zugriff
- Violence Kein Zugriff
- Human labour power Kein Zugriff
- The labour power of animals Kein Zugriff
- Firewood Kein Zugriff
- Peat Kein Zugriff
- Coal Kein Zugriff
- Gunpowder Kein Zugriff
- Watermills Kein Zugriff
- Windmills Kein Zugriff
- Water and wind and their role in transport Kein Zugriff
- Land Kein Zugriff
- Animals Kein Zugriff
- Animal manure and night soil Kein Zugriff
- Wood Kein Zugriff
- Metals: iron and bullion Kein Zugriff
- Frontiers and ghost acreages Kein Zugriff
- The agricultural labour force, the share of agriculture in GDP and urbanisation Kein Zugriff
- The importance of food in budgets Kein Zugriff
- Agricultural productivity Kein Zugriff
- Agricultural systems: China’s rice economy Kein Zugriff
- Agricultural systems: Great Britain’s wheat economy Kein Zugriff
- What about Japan? Kein Zugriff
- Intercontinental migration Kein Zugriff
- Slave trades and the importance of other forms of ‘coerced migration’. Kein Zugriff
- The demographic impact of European overseas migration Kein Zugriff
- Chinese and Japanese overseas emigrations Kein Zugriff
- The Columbian Exchange: flora, fauna and diseases Kein Zugriff
- Monetary systems Kein Zugriff
- Technologies and relative scarcities Kein Zugriff
- A modern world-system? Kein Zugriff
- A sinocentric alternative to Eurocentrism? Kein Zugriff
- Intercontinental trade as an almost entirely European affair Kein Zugriff
- Positive checks Kein Zugriff
- Preventive checks: The (Western) European marriage pattern and East Asian alternatives Kein Zugriff
- Sustainability in Tokugawa Japan Kein Zugriff
- Malthusian constraints? Kein Zugriff
- Efflorescences Kein Zugriff
- Modern economic growth before the Industrial Revolution? The case of Song China, 976-1279 as compared to developments under the Ming and Qing Kein Zugriff
- Modern economic growth before the Industrial Revolution? The case of the Dutch Republic during its Golden Age Kein Zugriff
- GDP, wages and incomes Kein Zugriff
- Inequality, poverty and famine Kein Zugriff
- Consumption Kein Zugriff
- Increased production and productivity in agriculture Kein Zugriff
- Industrious revolutions Kein Zugriff
- Increased investment and (micro-)innovations Kein Zugriff
- Improved human capital Kein Zugriff
- A better measure of reality Kein Zugriff
- Transport over land Kein Zugriff
- Transport over water Kein Zugriff
- Shipping on the open seas Kein Zugriff
- Specialisation and market extension Kein Zugriff
- Global market integration Kein Zugriff
- A decline of the commons? Kein Zugriff
- A decline of the guilds? Kein Zugriff
- A rise of free labour? Kein Zugriff
- Capitalists, capitalism and the state Kein Zugriff
- State formation and state capacity Kein Zugriff
- Military strength Kein Zugriff
- Empire building versus imperial disintegration Kein Zugriff
- New energy and new technology Kein Zugriff
- Railways and steam shipping Kein Zugriff
- The wider impact of the new economic regime Kein Zugriff
- Great Divergence and fossil-fuel ghost acreage Kein Zugriff
- Migration during the Great Divergence Kein Zugriff
- Great Divergence, import ghost acreage and Great Specialisation Kein Zugriff
- Different trajectories, change and continuity Kein Zugriff
- The case of Great Britain Kein Zugriff
- Did the Dutch Republic, Qing China or Tokugawa Japan have sufficient financial resources to industrialise? Kein Zugriff
- REVIEW AND REFLECTION Kein Zugriff Seiten 319 - 322
- BIBLIOGRAPHY Kein Zugriff Seiten 323 - 344





