The European miracle: environments, economies, and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia

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Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every study of industrialization and economic development. In this analytical and comparative work Eric Jones sees the economic condition forming where natural environments and political systems meet: Europe's economic rise is explained as a favoured interaction between them, contrasting with the frustrating pattern of their interplay in the Ottoman empire, …

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Full title :The European miracle : environments, economies, and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia / Eric Jones.

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Publication Date:2003.
Edition:3rd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxiv, 301 pages) : : maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780511817700, 0511817703
oclc:ocn817914252
LC Classification:HC240
Dewey Decimal:330.94/02

Eurasia. Environmental and social conjectures -- Disasters and capital accumulation -- Europe. Technological drift -- The discoveries and ghost acreage -- The market economy -- The states system -- Nation-states -- The World. Beyond Europe -- Asia. Islam and the Ottoman Empire -- India and the Mughal Empire -- China and the Ming and Manchu Empires -- Eurasia. Summary and comparison.

Subjects

Asia Asia -- Economic conditions Asie -- Conditions économiques Asien Economic history economische geschiedenis economische groei Europa Europe Europe -- Conditions économiques Europe -- Economic Conditions Geopolitik Ökosystem Politisches System Staatsform Wirtschaftsentwicklung