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Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900 brings together 13 articles
which include both classics and lesser-known but important works
related to the trade and production of textiles in the Pacific
region, extending from the tip of Northeast Asia to the other end
of South America and Australia. Collectively these articles bring
out two central themes, as highlighted in the introduction. First,
there is the leading role of textiles in linking up the economies
across the Pacific in the era before the 19th-century rise of
steam-engine-powered global integration. Second is the crucial role
of textile manufacturing and trade in the early stage of
industrialization for most of the developing Pacific economies
after the 19th century. The volume also reflects both revolutionary
shifts in paradigms and revisions of traditional consensus, and
seeks to present a more balanced account of global trade and market
integration in the early modern period.
Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900 brings together 13 articles
which include both classics and lesser-known but important works
related to the trade and production of textiles in the Pacific
region, extending from the tip of Northeast Asia to the other end
of South America and Australia. Collectively these articles bring
out two central themes, as highlighted in the introduction. First,
there is the leading role of textiles in linking up the economies
across the Pacific in the era before the 19th-century rise of
steam-engine-powered global integration. Second is the crucial role
of textile manufacturing and trade in the early stage of
industrialization for most of the developing Pacific economies
after the 19th century. The volume also reflects both revolutionary
shifts in paradigms and revisions of traditional consensus, and
seeks to present a more balanced account of global trade and market
integration in the early modern period.
Recently, a growing body of work on "law and finance" and "legal
origins" has highlighted the role of formal legal institutions in
shaping financial institutions. However, these writings have
focused largely on Europe, neglecting important non-Western
traditions that prevail in a large part of the world. "Law and
Long-Term Economic Change" brings together a group of leading
scholars from economics, economic history, law, and area studies to
develop a unique, global and, long-term perspective on the linkage
between law and economic change.
Covering the regions of Western Europe, East and South Asia, and
the Middle East, the chapters explore major themes regarding the
nature and evolution of different legal regimes; their relationship
with the state or organized religion; the definition and
interpretation of ownership and property rights; the functioning of
courts, and other mechanisms for dispute resolution and contract
enforcement; and the complex dynamics of legal transplantations
through processes such as colonization. The text makes clear that
the development of legal traditions and institutions--as
embodiments of cultural values and norms--exerts a strong effect on
long-term economic change. And it demonstrates that a good
understanding of legal origins around the world enriches any debate
about Great Divergence in the early modern era, as well as
development and underdevelopment in 19th-20th century Eurasia.
Building on a wide array of recent scholarship, the two volumes of
The Cambridge Economic History of China bring together the fruits
of pioneering international studies in all dimensions of economic
history, past and present. Exploring themes including political
economy, agriculture, industry and trade, technology, ecological
change, demography, law, urban development, standards of living,
consumption, financial institutions, and national income, the two
volumes together provide broad temporal coverage across all of
Chinese history, including recent developments in contemporary
China.
China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the
most dramatic development in the global economy since the year
2000. Volume II, which spans China's two turbulent centuries from
1800, charts this wrenching process of an ancient empire being
transformed to re-emerge as a major world power. This volume for
the first time brings together the fruits of pioneering
international scholarship in all dimensions of economic history to
provide an authoritative and comprehensive overview of this
tumultuous and dramatic transformation. In many cases, it offers a
fundamental reinterpretation of major themes in Chinese economic
history, such as the role of ideology, the rise of new
institutions, human capital and public infrastructure, the impact
of Western and Japanese imperialism, the role of external trade and
investment, and the evolution of living standards in both the
pre-Communist and Communist eras. The volume includes seven
important chapters on the Mao and reform eras and provides a
critical historical perspective linking the past with the present
and future.
China'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.
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