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"During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained … argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the … transformations. Mokyr looks at the period 1500–1700 to show that a politically fragmented Europe fostered a competitive “market for …
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Main description: Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic market integration, while at...
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economy can be understood only in the context of the often brutal imperial rivalries then unfolding in Europe and its former …
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"Technological change is about more than inventions. This concise history of the Industrial Revolution places the eighteenth-century British Industrial Revolution in global context, locating its causes in government protection, global competition, and colonialism. Inventions from spinning...
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This book contains a collection of papers on various aspects of Indonesia's economic and its industrial development. It discusses the early independence period in the 1950s; the Soeharto era (1966-1998); and the ensuing two economic crises, namely the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/98 and the...
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Die Untersuchungsperiode schließt den Zeitraum vom Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts bis zu den 1960er Jahren ein, somit beide Weltkriege und die Depression der 1930er Jahre. Erstmals wird der Versuch unternommen, die Vorkriegs-, Zwischenkriegs- und Nachkriegsjahre durch konsistente Langzeitreihen...
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