Global economic history
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Bloomsburry 2019Description: 370pISBN: 9781472588432Subject(s): Economic historyDDC classification: 330.9 Summary: What are the problems addressed by the growing field of global economic history? What debates and methodologies does it engage with? As Global Economic History shows, there are many answers to these questions. Riello and Roy, alongside 20 leading academics from the US, UK, Europe, Australia and Japan, explain why a global perspective matters to economic history. The impressive cast recruited by the editors brings together top scholars in their respective areas of expertise, including John McNeill, Patrick O'Brien, and Prasannan Parthasarathi. An ambitious scope of topics ranges from the 'Great Divergence' to the rise of global finance, to the New World and the global silver economy. Chapters are organized both thematically (Divergence in Global History and Emergence of a World Economy), and geographically (Regional Perspectives on Global Economic Change), ensuring the global perspective required on these challenging courses today. The result is a textbook which provides students with a quick and confident grasp of the field and its essential issuesItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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330.9 MOH/C The chronicle of financial turmoil | 330.9 NIS/T Transforming present economic challenges into global prosperity / | 330.9 SIN/C comparative economic development | 330.9 TIR/G Global economic history | 330.9 WOO/E Economic geography | 330.90082 GEN Gender and development :the economic basis of women's power | 330.904 NET Networks in the first global age, 1400-1800 |
What are the problems addressed by the growing field of global economic history? What debates and methodologies does it engage with?
As Global Economic History shows, there are many answers to these questions. Riello and Roy, alongside 20 leading academics from the US, UK, Europe, Australia and Japan, explain why a global perspective matters to economic history. The impressive cast recruited by the editors brings together top scholars in their respective areas of expertise, including John McNeill, Patrick O'Brien, and Prasannan Parthasarathi.
An ambitious scope of topics ranges from the 'Great Divergence' to the rise of global finance, to the New World and the global silver economy. Chapters are organized both thematically (Divergence in Global History and Emergence of a World Economy), and geographically (Regional Perspectives on Global Economic Change), ensuring the global perspective required on these challenging courses today.
The result is a textbook which provides students with a quick and confident grasp of the field and its essential issues
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