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The Story of Indian Manufacturing : Encounters with the Mughal and British Empires (1498 -1947)
Seth, Vijay K. - 2018
This book discusses the role historical events played in determining the pattern of growth of Indian manufacturing. Two important historical events significantly influenced the course of Indian manufacturing from the 15th century AD. The first was the arrival of European merchants via sea route...
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A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I : Four Paths to an Industrialized World
McNabb, David E. - 2016
A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise
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Credit and Trade in Later Medieval England, 1353-1532
Goddard, Richard - 2016
-European warfare, climate change and a bullion famine occasioned severe and prolonged economic decline across fifteenth century England …Chapter 1) The Statute Staple and Trade Finance in Later Medieval England -- Chapter 2) Merchants and Trade -- Chapter … 3) Boom and Bust: Patterns of Borrowing in Later Medieval England -- Chapter 4) The Geography of Recession: Provincial …
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Emerging from an Entrenched Colonial Economy : New Zealand Primary Production, Britain and the EEC, 1945 - 1975
Hall, David - 2017
This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes...
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Poland From Partitions to EU Accession : A Modern Economic History, 1772–2004
Koryś, Piotr - 2018
industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward dislocation; and from the …
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Japan and the Great Divergence : A Short Guide
Francks, Penelope - 2016
This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been taken as read that the industrial revolution was the...
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Japan’s Industrious Revolution : Economic and Social Transformations in the Early Modern Period
Hayami, Akira - 2015
This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period, and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan since the eighteenth century, improving living standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402133
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The Singularity of Western Innovation : The Language Nexus
Dudley, Leonard - 2017
This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three...
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Economic Ethics in Late Medieval England, 1300–1500
Hole, Jennifer - 2016
broader application than trade and usury in late medieval England …
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Economic History of Energy and Environment
Sugiyama, S. (ed.) - 2015
This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia....
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