Global Economic History: Edition 2
Tirthankar Roy · Giorgio Riello
Sep 2024 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions from leading scholars around the world, it delves into the economic histories of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas from the 16th to the 20th centuries. From the environment to The Great Divergence, finance, consumption, trade, industrialisation, commodities and labour regimes, it demonstrates the global nature of economic history, and highlights how indispensable it is and has been.
Updated throughout, this new edition boasts an expanded introduction and four new chapters on capitalism and political economy, European empires and colonialism, North Africa and the Middle East, and the North American Economy. A comprehensive introduction to global economic history, this textbook provides students with a confident grasp of the field, its key debates and essential issues.
Updated throughout, this new edition boasts an expanded introduction and four new chapters on capitalism and political economy, European empires and colonialism, North Africa and the Middle East, and the North American Economy. A comprehensive introduction to global economic history, this textbook provides students with a confident grasp of the field, its key debates and essential issues.
About the author
Giorgio Riello is Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick, UK. He has authored or edited several books on the history of early modern Europe and Asia, including The Spinning World (2009); How India Clothed the World (with T. Roy, 2009); Writing Material Culture History (2014); and Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2013).
Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics, UK. He has published extensively on the economic history of modern South Asia, and is the author of India in the World Economy from Antiquity to the Present (2012); The Economic History of India 1857-1947 (2012); and An Economic History of Early Modern India (2013).
Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics, UK. He has published extensively on the economic history of modern South Asia, and is the author of India in the World Economy from Antiquity to the Present (2012); The Economic History of India 1857-1947 (2012); and An Economic History of Early Modern India (2013).
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