Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West

Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9789004251571
ISBN-13 : 900425157X
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Download or read book Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. The book offers regional surveys of Europe, China and India, as well as comparative studies of building, porcelain manufacturing, instrument making, printing, and shipbuilding. The authors engage with the on-going debate about the ‘great divergence’ between Asia and Europe, and its possible causes. Technology has so far had a minor role in that debate. This book is bound to change that, through the bold claims made by various contributors. Contributors are: Karel Davids, S.R. Epstein †, Gijs Kessler, Jan Lucassen, Christine Moll-Murata, Patrick O'Brien, Kenneth Pomeranz, Maarten Prak, Tirthankar Roy, Richard Unger, and Jan Luiten van Zanden.


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