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Sweet diversity : colonial goods and the rise of European living standards after 1492
Hersh, Jonathan; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663650
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Trade and the pattern of European imperialism, 1492 - 2000
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579499
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Sweet Diversity : Colonial Goods and the Rise of European Living Standards after 1492
Hersh, Jonathan - 2009
Did living standards stagnate before the Industrial Revolution? Traditional real-wage indices typically show broadly constant living standards before 1800. In this paper, we show that living standards rose substantially, but surreptitiously because of the growing availability of new goods....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159941
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Sweet Diversity : Colonial Goods and the Rise of European Living Standards after 1492
Hersh, Jonathan - 2009
Did living standards stagnate before the Industrial Revolution? Traditional real-wage indices typically show broadly constant living standards before 1800. In this paper, we show that living standards rose substantially, but surreptitiously because of the growing availability of new goods....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157469
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Europe and Africa : being a revised edition of intervention and colonization in Africa
Harris, Norman Dwight - 1927 - Being a rev. ed. of Intervention and colonization in Africa
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818203
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From Class-Based Project to Imperial Formation : European Union Law and the Reconstruction of Europe
Nanopoulos, Eva - 2021
transnational and international solidarity that could transcend the imperialist legacies and nature of Europe's 'peace' project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249821
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Rivalry and Empire : How Competition among European States Shaped Imperialism
Vogler, Jan P. - 2022
hierarchical and exploitative, as manifested in colonialism and imperialism. How can we explain this difference? I argue that the … the world. Specifically, three mechanisms connect sustained rivalries to imperialism: (1) political elites' desire to … imperialism. Moreover, when territorial conflict over colonies escalated, imperial expansion could ultimately feed back into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290446
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Iberian world empires and the globalization of Europe 1415-1668
Yun Casalilla, Bartolomé - 2019
Introduction -- Part I The Iberian Grounds of the Early Modern Globalization of Europe -- Global Context and the Rise … of Europe. Iberia and the Atlantic -- Iberian Overseas Expansion and European trade networks -- Domestic Expansion in the … most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434259
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Between Imperialism and Capitalism : European Capital Exports Before 1914
Esteves, Rui - 2012
This paper compares the patterns of foreign investment of two large capital-exporting countries before 1914 - Great Britain and Germany. An original database of German capital exports, comparable to Stone's (1999) data for British capital flows was compiled for the period 1883-1913. Three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171649
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'Without the European Merchants and Colonial Masters There Would Be No Formal Education in Ghana' : Another Thought
Etse, Daniel - 2014
The thrust of this article is to examine the notion; “Without the European merchants and Colonial masters there would be no formal education in Ghana”. This has become necessary because of the widely held view among many Ghanaians including some intellectuals that; Ghana would not have had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146180