Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850 Hardcover - 2011
by Richard W. Unger (Volume Editor)
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In sixteen essays authors explore the dramatic rise in the efficiency of European shipping in the three centuries before the Industrial Revolution. They offer reasons for the greater success of the sector than any other in making better use of labour. They describe the roots - political, organizational, technological, ecological, human - of rising productivity, treating those sources both theoretically and empirically. Comparisons with China show why Europeans came to dominate Asian waters. Building on past research, the volume is a statement of what is known about that critical sector of the early modern European economy and indicates the contribution shipping made to the emergence of the West as the dominant force on the oceans of the world. Contributors include: Kent G. Deng, Xavier Duran, Paul van Dyke, Regina Grafe, Jelle van Lottum, Rui Loureiro, Jan Lucassen, Patrick O'Brien, Jari Ojala, David Ormrod, Am lia Pol nia, Milja van Tielhof, Richard W. Unger, Lex Herma van Voss, Nuala Zahedieh, Jan Luiten van Zanden.
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- Title Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850
- Author Richard W. Unger (Volume Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 484
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill
- Date 2011
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9789004194397 / 9004194398
- Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
- Dimensions 9.7 x 6.6 x 1.3 in (24.64 x 16.76 x 3.30 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects Economic development - Europe - History, Shipping - Europe - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010049575
- Dewey Decimal Code 387.544
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 06/01/2011, Page 90
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