UID:
almahu_9949701653902882
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 353 pages) :
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illustrations (some color)
ISBN:
9789004251571
Series Statement:
Global economic history series ; v. 10
Content:
Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. The book offers regional surveys of Europe, China and India, as well as comparative studies of building, porcelain manufacturing, instrument making, printing, and shipbuilding. The authors engage with the on-going debate about the 'great divergence' between Asia and Europe, and its possible causes. Technology has so far had a minor role in that debate. This book is bound to change that, through the bold claims made by various contributors. Contributors are: Karel Davids, S.R. Epstein †, Gijs Kessler, Jan Lucassen, Christine Moll-Murata, Patrick O'Brien, Kenneth Pomeranz, Maarten Prak, Tirthankar Roy, Richard Unger, and Jan Luiten van Zanden.
Note:
Preliminary Material --
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Introduction /
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1. Transferring Technical Knowledge and Innovating in Europe, c.1200 - c.1800 /
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2. Apprenticeship and Industrialization in India, 1600-1930 /
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3. Skills, 'Guilds', and Development /
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4. Mega-structures of the Middle Ages /
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5. The Technology and Teaching of Shipbuilding, 1300-1800 /
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6. Moving Machine-makers /
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7. Guilds and Apprenticeship in China and Europe /
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8. Labour Relations, Efficiency and the Great Divergence /
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9. Explaining the Global Distribution of Book Production before 1800 /
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Bibliography of the Published Works of S.R. Epstein /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2013, ISBN 9789004245358
Language:
English
