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作者:本社 编出版社:Cambridge University Press出版时间:2011年08月
- 版 次:1
- 页 数:365
- 字 数:
- 印刷时间:2011年08月01日
- 开 本:32开
- 纸 张:胶版纸
- 包 装:平装
- 是否套装:否
- 国际标准书号ISBN:9780521168243
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new
answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from
the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly
from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe
and Asia were more alike than different, both characterized by
sophisticated and growing economies. Their subsequent divergence
can be attributed to different competitive and ecological pressures
that in turn produced varied state policies and economic outcomes.
This account breaks with conventional views, which hold that
divergence occurred because Europe possessed superior markets,
rationality, science or institutions. It offers instead a
groundbreaking rereading of global economic development that ranges
from India, Japan and China to Britain, France and the Ottoman
Empire and from the textile and coal industries to the roles of
science, technology and the state.
? Explains divergence for the first time from the perspective of
the Indian subcontinent as opposed to a European or Chinese
perspective ? Re-evaluates the premise that Europe industrialised
first because it was very different to Asia, and highlights instead
the similarities between the political and economic institutions in
advanced areas of Asia and Europe ? Argues that the failure of
modern industry in nineteenth-century India was not due to lack of
technical ability, but to the policies of the colonial state
1. Introduction;
Part I. Setting the Stage: Europe and Asia before Divergence:
2. India and the global economy, 1600–1800;
3. Political institutions and economic life;
Part II. The Divergence of Britain:
4. The European response to Indian cottons;
5. State and market: Britain, France, and the Ottoman
Empire;
6. From cotton to coal; Part III. The Indian Path:
7. Science and technology in India, 1600–1800;
8. Industry in early nineteenth-century India;
9. Conclusion.
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