Global Economic History

Name: Global Economic History
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SKU: 9781350290082
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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... Read More

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Global Economic History

$60⁹⁹

Description

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350290082

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 October 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 32 bw illus

Contributors:

Edited by Professor Tirthankar Roy
Edited by Prof. Giorgio Riello

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 780g

Pages: 504

Collections

Education & Reference Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Global History History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Science & Nature

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).