Add to ORKGThe industrial revolution was not only about the conditions of supply in the west. It was also about the development of global trading systems that positioned the west as a nodal point in a global exchange of goods and materials. Drawing upon new research into the European East India trading companies undertaken as part of the ‘Europe’s Asian Centuries’ project, this paper makes a clear case for the significance of trade with Asia to the development of the European economies. The chapter examines critically the historiography on the world and the industrial revolution: it contrasts the fairly expansive view that Hobsbawm gave to the industrial revolution, then the turning inwards to Europe only (Landes) and Britain only (Wrigley etc.), befo...
Western Europe by the midnineteenth century.1 The turning point of modern economic growth was a rema...
This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industria...
This paper offers an overview of the development of European industry between 1700 and 1870, drawing...
There are many arguments related to the origins of globalization process that we are more blatantly ...
The historiography of the development and diffusion of technology in the modern world has grown as a...
In recent decades, economic historians have revisited the Industrial Revolution in a global context....
The maritime trade in Asian luxury and manufactured goods that reconfigured the material cultures of...
The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to hi...
Most European intercontinental trade passed through the Atlantic during the Early Modern period, wit...
The globalized labour markets of the twenty-first century have important foundations in the making o...
Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market provi...
The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to hi...
When the Genoese merchant, Marco Polo, first arrived in Dynastic China he was faced with a society f...
This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industria...
Most European intercontinental trade passed through the Atlantic during the Early Modern period, wit...
Western Europe by the midnineteenth century.1 The turning point of modern economic growth was a rema...
This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industria...
This paper offers an overview of the development of European industry between 1700 and 1870, drawing...
There are many arguments related to the origins of globalization process that we are more blatantly ...
The historiography of the development and diffusion of technology in the modern world has grown as a...
In recent decades, economic historians have revisited the Industrial Revolution in a global context....
The maritime trade in Asian luxury and manufactured goods that reconfigured the material cultures of...
The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to hi...
Most European intercontinental trade passed through the Atlantic during the Early Modern period, wit...
The globalized labour markets of the twenty-first century have important foundations in the making o...
Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market provi...
The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to hi...
When the Genoese merchant, Marco Polo, first arrived in Dynastic China he was faced with a society f...
This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industria...
Most European intercontinental trade passed through the Atlantic during the Early Modern period, wit...
Western Europe by the midnineteenth century.1 The turning point of modern economic growth was a rema...
This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industria...
This paper offers an overview of the development of European industry between 1700 and 1870, drawing...