1. The characteristics of China's traditional economy / Man-houng Lin -- 2. The late Qing dynasty to the early Republic of China : a period of great institutional transformation / Kenneth S. Chan -- 3. The centrally planned command economy (1949-84) / Dwight H. Perkins -- 4. China's economic...

part Agriculture -- part Watson, The Land Laws and Land Administration of the Federated Malay States (1908) -- chapter R. G. Watson, the Land Laws and Land Administration of the Federated Malay States (1908) -- part Grist, Malaya: Agriculture, ‘Land Tenure’ (1929) -- chapter D. H....

v. 1. General introduction. Agriculture -- v. 2. Mining, trade and industry -- v. 3. The building blocks of development : governance, transport and communciations, and human and financial capital. Index.

1. Agricultural transformation, land ownership, and markets in inland Spain : the case of southern Navarre, 1600-1935 / Jose Miguel Lana-Berasain -- 2. Are institutions the whole story? frontier expansion, land quality and ownership rights in the River Plate, 1850-1920 / Henry Willebald -- 3....

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1. The European economy in the late eighteenth century -- 2. Population growth and migration -- 3. Technological change -- 4. The French revolution and the continental system -- 5. The economic development of France 1815-70 -- 6. The economic development of Germany 1815-70 -- 7. The economic...

List of figures, List of tables, -- Preface, Table of abbreviations. 1. Evolution of monetary arrangements 2. New monetary economics and commodity bundles:a critique of the Black-Fama-Hall system. 3. A measure of value independent of commodities: developing new monetary economics using the...