The Mediterranean Response to Globalization before 1950 (Hardcover)

Contents:
Part I. Introduction
1. Globalizaton challenge and economic response in the Mediterranean. Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey G. Williamson
Part II. Long Run Growth: A Comparative Assessment
2. How poor was the European periphery before 1850? The Mediterranean vs Scandinavia. Jaime Reis
3. Real wages and relative factor prices around the Mediterranean 1500-1940. Jeffrey G. Williamson
4. European economic development: The core and the Southern periphery 1870-1910 James Foreman-Peck and Pedro Lains
Part III. Long Run Growth: Country Studies
5. Growth and retardation in Ottoman Macedonia 1880-1910 Ahmed Akarli
6. The choice of technology: Spanish, Italian, British and US cotton mills compared 1830-1860. Joan Ramon Roses
Part IV. Trade, Transport and Domestic Production in the Century Before WWII
7. Specialization in the international market for olive oil before WWII. Ramon Ramon-Munoz
8. International competition and the developoment of the dried fruit industry 1880-1930. Jose Morilla-Critz, Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode
9. International shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea: Istanbul as a maritime center 1870-1910. Gelina Harlaftis and Vassilis Kardasis
Part V. Pre-1914 Policy Choices and the Political Economy of Growth
10. Much Ado About Nothing? Italian trade policy in late 19th century. Giovanni Federico and Kevin H. O'Rourke
11. What slowed down the mass emigration from Spain before WWII? A comparison with Italy. Blanca Sanchez-Alonso
Part VI: Interwar Policy Choices and the Political Economy of Growth
12. Intervention during the Great Depression: another look at Turkish experience. Sevket Pamuk
13. Egyptian commodity markets in the age of economic liberalism. Tarik Yousef
Part VII Twentieth Century Palestine
14. Economic growth and external trade in mandatory Palestine: a special Mediterranean case. Jacob Metzer

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Explorations in Economic History
Release date:	March 2000
First published:	2000
Editors:	Sevket Pamuk • Jeffrey G. Williamson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-22425-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
LSN:	0-415-22425-X
Barcode:	9780415224253

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