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Author: Debin Ma
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Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 749
ISBN-13: 1108425577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from the pre-imperial era to 1800 from an international team of leading experts.
Author: Debin Ma
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Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 867
ISBN-13: 1108425534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from 1800 to the present from an international team of leading experts.
Author: Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 1046
ISBN-13: 9780521553070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis three volume work offers a comprehensive survey of the history of economic activity and economic change in the United States, and in those regions whose economies have at certain times been closely allied to that of the US.
Author: Debin Ma
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781108425575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. But China's prominence in the global economy is hardly new. Since 500 BCE, a dynamic market economy and the establishment of an enduring imperial state fostered precocious economic growth. Yet Chinese society and government featured distinctive institutions that generated unique patterns of economic development. The six chapters of Part I of this volume trace the forms of livelihood, organization of production and exchange, the role of the state in economic development, the evolution of market institutions, and the emergence of trans-Eurasian trade from antiquity to 1000 CE. Part II, in twelve thematic chapters, spans the late imperial period from 1000 to 1800 and surveys diverse fields of economic history, including environment, demography, rural and urban development, factor markets, law, money, finance, philosophy, political economy, foreign trade, human capital, and living standards.
Author: Richard von Glahn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-07
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ISBN-13: 1316538850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared some of the features, such as highly productive agriculture and sophisticated markets, found in the most advanced regions of Europe. But in many respects, from the central importance of irrigated rice farming to family structure, property rights, the status of merchants, the monetary system, and the imperial state's fiscal and economic policies, China's preindustrial economy diverged from the Western path of development. In this comprehensive but accessible study, Richard von Glahn examines the institutional foundations, continuities and discontinuities in China's economic development over three millennia, from the Bronze Age to the early twentieth century.
Author: Willard J. Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-07
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ISBN-13: 1316445046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural production, political order and military domination peaked and then began to unravel. The book sheds new light on the changing systems deployed under the Ch'ing dynasty to govern its large, multi-ethnic Empire and surveys the dynasty's complex relations with neighbouring states and Europe. In this compelling and authoritative account of a significant era of early modern Chinese history, the volume illustrates the ever-changing nature of the Ch'ing Empire, and provides context for the unforeseeable challenges that the nineteenth century would bring.
Author: John K. Fairbank
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 792
ISBN-13: 9780521220293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor readers with Chinese, proper names and terms are identified with their characters in the glossary, and full references to Chinese, Japanese and other works are given in the bibliographies. Numerous maps illustrate the text, and there are bibliographical essay decribing the source materials on which each author?s account is based.
Author: Debin Ma
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 749
ISBN-13: 1108554792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. But China's prominence in the global economy is hardly new. Since 500 BCE, a dynamic market economy and the establishment of an enduring imperial state fostered precocious economic growth. Yet Chinese society and government featured distinctive institutions that generated unique patterns of economic development. The six chapters of Part I of this volume trace the forms of livelihood, organization of production and exchange, the role of the state in economic development, the evolution of market institutions, and the emergence of trans-Eurasian trade from antiquity to 1000 CE. Part II, in twelve thematic chapters, spans the late imperial period from 1000 to 1800 and surveys diverse fields of economic history, including environment, demography, rural and urban development, factor markets, law, money, finance, philosophy, political economy, foreign trade, human capital, and living standards.
Author: Edwin Ernest Rich
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 460
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth Pomeranz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0691217181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East Asia. Moreover, key regions in China and Japan were no worse off ecologically than those in Western Europe, with each region facing corresponding shortages of land-intensive products. Pomeranz’s comparative lens reveals the two critical factors resulting in Europe's nineteenth-century divergence—the fortunate location of coal and access to trade with the New World. As East Asia’s economy stagnated, Europe narrowly escaped the same fate largely due to favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas. This Princeton Classics edition includes a preface from the author and makes a powerful historical work available to new readers.
