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"State, Economy and the Great Divergence" provides a new analysis
of what has become the central debate in global economic history:
the 'great divergence' between European and Asian growth. Focusing
on early modern China and Western Europe, this book offers a new
level of detail on comparative state formation that has
wide-reaching implications for European, Eurasian and global
history.Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the
historiography, Peer Vries goes on to extend and develop the
debate, critically engaging with the huge volume of literature
published on the topic to date. Incorporating new insights into the
case of Europe, he offers a compelling alternative to the
exaggerated claims to East-West equivalence, or Asian superiority,
which have come to dominate discourse surrounding this issue.This
is a vital update to a key issue in global economic history and, as
such, is essential reading for students and scholars interested in
keeping up to speed with the on-going debates.
The most significant debate in global economic history over the
past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic
gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate has
focused on China, India and north-western Europe, particularly
Great Britain. This book shifts the focus to ask how Japan became
the only non-western county that managed, at least partially, to
modernize its economy and start to industrialize in the 19th
century. Using a range of empirical data, Peer Vries analyses the
role of the state in Japan's economic growth from the Meiji
Restoration to World War II, and asks whether Japan's economic
success can be attributed to the rise of state power. Asserting
that the state's involvement was fundamental in Japan's economic
'catching up', he demonstrates how this was built on legacies from
the previous Tokugawa period. In this book, Vries deepens our
understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by
re-examining how Japan developed and modernized against the odds.
The most significant debate in global economic history over the
past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic
gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate has
focused on China, India and north-western Europe, particularly
Great Britain. This book shifts the focus to ask how Japan became
the only non-western county that managed, at least partially, to
modernize its economy and start to industrialize in the 19th
century. Using a range of empirical data, Peer Vries analyses the
role of the state in Japan's economic growth from the Meiji
Restoration to World War II, and asks whether Japan's economic
success can be attributed to the rise of state power. Asserting
that the state's involvement was fundamental in Japan's economic
'catching up', he demonstrates how this was built on legacies from
the previous Tokugawa period. In this book, Vries deepens our
understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by
re-examining how Japan developed and modernized against the odds.
"State, Economy and the Great Divergence" provides a new analysis
of what has become the central debate in global economic history:
the 'great divergence' between European and Asian growth. Focusing
on early modern China and Western Europe, this book offers a new
level of detail on comparative state formation that has
wide-reaching implications for European, Eurasian and global
history.Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the
historiography, Peer Vries goes on to extend and develop the
debate, critically engaging with the huge volume of literature
published on the topic to date. Incorporating new insights into the
case of Europe, he offers a compelling alternative to the
exaggerated claims to East-West equivalence, or Asian superiority,
which have come to dominate discourse surrounding this issue.This
is a vital update to a key issue in global economic history and, as
such, is essential reading for students and scholars interested in
keeping up to speed with the on-going debates.
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