Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not : global economic divergence, 1600-1850 /

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries th...

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Main Author: Parthasarathi, Prasannan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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