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Atlas of Material Life

Vries-Baaijens, Vries, Peer

2020,2021,2025

Overview

Large-scale comparative economic history of westernmost and easternmost Eurasia can be beneficial for the understanding of global history. This book provides a description of material life in North-western Europe and East Asia, for the period from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, with a focus on developments in Great Britain and the Dutch Republic on the one hand and China and Japan on the other hand. With maps, tables, graphs and figures as a prominent and integral part of the book, it provides information, in an accessible format, on the main characteristics of the economic landscape of this period. It demonstrates the constraints to which all pre-industrial economies were subjected because of their dependence on organic natural resources but also the different ways in which the societies discussed dealt with those constraints. To provide a better understanding of this economy of limited possibilities, the final chapter of the book is devoted to the emergence of modern economic growth in Western Europe.

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press,Leiden University Press
• Subject: 1400-1900 / Agricultural systems / and Archaeology / Art History / Asian Studies / Columbian Exchange / Consumer revolution / Early Modern Studies / Economic history / Economics and Finance / Efflorescence / Energy systems / Eurasien / Europa / European Studies / Factor endowment / Great Divergence / HISTORY / HISTORY / Europe / Western / HISTORY / World / Leiden University Press / Material culture-History-East Asia / Material culture-History-Europe, Western / Modern economic growth / Modern History / Ostasien / Transnational and Global Studies / Wirtschaftsgeschichte / World history
• ISBN: 9789087283544, 9087283547, 9789400603929, 9400603924