Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9970090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulbe Bosma (0000-0003-1423-373X, International Institute of Social History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-130 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859013000680 |
| OpenAlex | W2111867877 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
Between 1700 and 1850 Europe managed to usurp China and India as the centres of global production. Parthasarathi sets himself the task of explaining how the West succeeded in doing so -not by trying to grasp the entire Asian experience, but by focusing on cotton cloth. Summarized in a few sentences, his argument goes like this: the British economy, which had become demographically and ecologically increasingly unsustainable, managed to reverse the trend by resorting to coal and colonies. In the process, Britain captured the global market for cotton cloth from India, which for centuries had produced the finest cloth in the world. Rather than economic and technological superiority, it was mercantilist policies and the protection of the infant cotton industry that were the key to British success. The author combines the Great Divergence theme of Asian-European equivalence prior to the Industrial Revolution with another well-known narrative about the destruction of Indian cotton manufacturing by the British textile industry. The deindustrialization theme dates from the times of the drainage debate initiated by Romesh Dutt and
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Wages and the standard of living in Europe, 1500-1800
Working at the Ichapur Gunpowder Factory in the 1790s (Part I)
Working at the Ichapur Gunpowder Factory in the 1790s (Part II)
The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800–1850
Introduction
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia
Factor markets and the narrative of economic change in India, 1750–1950
Pessimism Perpetuated
India and the great divergence
Deindustrialization in 18th and 19th century India
Prasannan Parthasarathi. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not
Ascertaining Living Standards in Erstwhile Mysore, Southern India, from Francis Buchanan's Journey of 1800-01
The early modern great divergence
Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738–1925
Asian Capital in the Age of European Domination
Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal
Rethinking Wages and Competitiveness in the Eighteenth Century
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |