This book explores aspects of this vibrant market economy in late imperial China, and by presenting a reconstructed narrative of economic development in the ear
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
"A very useful book on a topic of growing importance and interest. Brokaw's introduction is one of the most valuable and best-written prefaces to an edited volu
The Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History documents and interprets the development of economic history as a global discipline from the later nineteenth