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Book SynopsisThis accessible and insightful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of prehistory. By presenting a chronological account of the beginnings of economics and human society, it charts the key developments in early human history, from the evolution of social norms and colonizing of unknown continents, to the development of early technology and the transition to agricultural food production. Particular attention is given to how human capital, the natural environment, social capital, and the spread of knowledge and technical skills propelled economic development during prehistory. The origin of modern concerns, including wealth inequality, stratified societies, and environmental change, are thoughtfully presented through the examining of the birth of the first states and human civilization. This book provides a thrilling account of human evolution and economic development from its African origins and hunter-gather days, through to the invention of agriculture and the rise of early states. Bringing together ideas from across economic history, the political economy, anthropology, and evolutionary biology, it will be relevant to students and general readers interested in these topics.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive economic history of emerging market economies post-WWII and identifies a complex web of sustainability problems that face the EMEs going forward. It seeks to present a truly global perspective on the development of EMEs and the long-term trends that have brought EMEs to a critical economic juncture. The first section of the book charts how EMEs became tightly integrated into the global economy at rapid pace, analysing economic achievements as well as imbalances and sustainability issues that have been generated over time. It considers how EMEs have withstood episodes of complex structural transitions and financial shocks, and offers comparative perspectives on patterns of dispersion within the EME landscape from the end of WWII to the present. The second part of the book seeks to understand how EMEs might cope with the volatility brought about by a new age of disruption' defined by major structural challenges to the neo-liberal economic order. It considers which EMEs are best positioned to respond to issues of economic inequality, financial excess, technological disruption and climate change, what a global historical understanding of the EMEs can offer to policymakers, and the impact on the EME investment landscape. This book will be of interest to a broad audience including researchers of economic history and political economy, as well as policymakers, investment professionals, and the general reader interested in global economic development.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1:The bankification of everyday life: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Welcome to the banking age: Redefining the social class of money.- Chapter 3: Making finance familiar: Gender and the domestication of banks.- Chapter 4: Launching the credit card: New moralities of credit and payment.- Chapter 5: Rewriting the history and future of consumer credit: Ideological change as a marketing strategy.- Chapter 6: The financialisation of identity.- Chapter 7: Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Tourism and Catholic Pilgrimages.- Chapter 2. Economic Development, the Catholic Church, and Tourism in Late Modern and Contemporary Italy.- Chapter 3. The Foundations of Modern Italian Pilgrimages, 1870–1950.- Chapter 4. The Holy Land: Journey to the Roots, 1870–1939.- Chapter 5. Lourdes: A New Pilgrimage, 1870–1950.- Chapter 6. Rome: Pilgrims as Jubilee Tourists, 1870–1939.- Chapter 7. Rome: The Eternal City as an International Capital, 1950.- Chapter 8. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Theorising Empire State-building.- Chapter 3: Commissions, Committees, and Councils of Trade, 1622-1696.- Chapter 4: The Board of Trade and Empire State-building in Eighteenth-century Britain, 1696-1815.- Chapter 5: The Board of Trade, Regulation, and Business in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914.

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Book SynopsisTheoretischer Rahmen.- Die Familie der Augsburger Paumgartner.- Quellenanalyse.- Resümee.- Quellenverzeichnis.- Literaturverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the transition from the old regime to modern forms of sovereignty in the Middle East. By rereading Tocqueville's classic, The Old Régime and the French Revolution, through an Ottoman prism this study probes the unresolved paradoxes in his analysis of institutional change while documenting an old regime that has remained in the shadows of modern history. Each section of the book explores a specific dimension of Ottoman sovereignty – space, hierarchy, and vernacular governance – through a detailed examination of a particular 18th century document. An Ottoman perspective on the eighteenth century not only furnishes critical pieces of the old-regime puzzle. It also illustrates how an uncritical reception of Tocqueville's model of modernization has obscured the ongoing interaction between the “Eurasian” and Westphalian state systems and parallel processes of sociopolitical change.Trade Review'Par sa nouveauté, son audance et les perspectives qu’il ouvre, le livre de Salzmann s’impose d’emblée comme une référence.' Hamit Bozarslan, Revue d’Études Turques, 2004. 'Salzmann has produced a work that is going to be both a landmark in Ottoman studies and a bridge to other fields and disciplines'. Selim Deringil, Mediterranean Historical Review 2005.

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Book SynopsisThe eighth century has not been analysed as a period of economic history since the 1930s, and is ripe for a comprehensive reassessment. The twelve papers in this book range over the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean from Denmark to Palestine, covering Francia, Italy and Byzantium on the way. They examine regional economies and associated political structures, that is to say the whole network of production, exchange, and social relations in each area. They offer both authoritative overviews of current work and new and original work. As a whole, they show how the eighth century was the first century when the post-Roman world can clearly be seen to have emerged, in the regional economies of each part of Europe.Trade Review'...this is an impressive series that more than justifies the workshop approach and shows what can be achieved when scholars actually talk to each other in a frank and open exchange of ideas. Further volumes are eagerly awaited.' Andrew Reynolds, Medieval Archaeology, 2002.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Introduction Chris Wickham Concepts of the early medieval economy John Moreland Exchange and politics: the eighth-early ninth century in Denmark Ulf NasmanThe significance of production in eighth-century England John Moreland Roman cities, emporia and new towns (sixth-ninth centuries) Adriaan Verhulst The role of the monasteries in the systems of production and exchange of the Frankish world between the seventh and the beginning of the ninth century Stephane Lebecq Before or after mission. Social relations across the middle and lower Rhine in the seventh and eight centuries Ian Wood Marseille and the Pirenne thesis II: ”ville morte” S.T. Loseby Some considerations on the coinage of Lombard and Carolingian Italy Alessia Rovelli Production, distribution and demand in the Byzantine world, c. 660-840 John Haldon Production, echange and regional trade in the Islamic East Mediterranean: old structures, new systems? Alan Walmsley Overview: production, distribution and demand, II Chris Wickham Index

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Book SynopsisIn this definitive study of the intra-Asian trade in Japanese copper trade by the Dutch East India Company, the author argues that the trade in this commodity reaped high profits. Despite the huge imports of British copper by the English East India Company during the eighteenth century, the Dutch Company successfully continued to sell Japanese copper in South Asia at higher prices. Compared to the capital-intensive development of British mines in the age of the Industrial Revolution, the copper production in Tokugawa Japan was characterized by a labour-intensive 'revolution' which also made a big impact on the local economy.

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Book SynopsisAssembled in honour of John H. A. Munro (University of Toronto), the volume groups nineteen original studies by a diversified panel of scholars. The essays explore late medieval market mechanisms and associated institutional, fiscal and monetary, organizational, decision-making, legal and ethical issues, as well as various aspects of production, consumption and market integration. The geographical scope stretches from North-Western and Central Europe to North and West Africa, and the individual contributions deal with a variety of local, regional, and long-distance markets and networks. The mix of approaches, cutting-edge archival research, and presentations of current projects addresses the interests of scholars in diverse fields, from economic to social and institutional history. The volume offers a full bibliography of John H. A. Munro’s works.Trade Review“this Festschrift in honor of the revered John Munro contains original and remarkable work, .. are all characterized by a notable wealth of historical evidence, references, and sources. Given the scope of topics and the diversity of approaches, the volume should be of great interest to a wide range of scholars in diverse fields” Karine van der Beek in EH.Net (September 2007) “in its range and diversity the collection is a fine tribute to Munro’s work, and the bibliographies, not least that of his own publications, provide most valuable references”, Pamela Nightingale in Economic History Review, 61, 1 (2008)Table of ContentsPreface Herman Van der Wee Money and Ethics Law, Ethics and Economy: Gerard of Siena and Giovanni d’Andrea on Usury Lawrin Armstrong Max Weber and Usury: Implications for Historical Research Lutz Kaelber Taxation and Revenue The King’s Business in Africa: Decisions and Strategies of the Portuguese Crown Ivana Elbl Civic Debt, Civic Taxes, and Urban Unrest: A Catalan Key to Interpreting the Late Fourteenth-Century European Crisis Jeffrey Fynn-Paul Tolls and Trade in Medieval England James Masschaele Expenditure and War Calculating Profits and Losses during the Hundred Years War Kelly DeVries The Cost of Majesty: Financial Reform and the Development of the Royal Court in Portugal and England at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century Susannah C. Humble Ferreira Warfare, Shipping, and Crown Patronage: The Economic Impact of the Hundred Years War on the English Port Towns Maryanne Kowaleski Land and Labour Peasant Servitude in Later Medieval Provence: Archaism or Innovation? John Drendel Bargaining Power and Institutional Change: Seven Centuries of Italian Sharecropping Contracts, 821 to 1517 A.D. Francesco Galassi Market Integration A Test Case for Regional Market Integration? The Grain Trade between Malta and Sicily in the Fifteenth Century Mark Aloisio Capital Market and Central Place Function in Thirteenth-Century Ypres David Nicholas Thresholds for Market Integration in the Low Countries and England in the Fifteenth Century Richard W. Unger Long-Distance Trade and Markets Egyptian Specie Markets and the International Gold Crisis of the Fifteenth Century Ian Blanchard From Venice to the Tuat: Trans-Saharan Copper Trade and Francesco di Marco Datini of Prato Martin Malcolm Elbl The Borromei Bank Research Project Francesco Guidi Bruscoli and J. L. Bolton Regional and Local Markets Shops and Shopping in the Thirteenth Century: Three Texts Martha Carlin Movable/Immovable, What’s in a Name?— The Case of Late Medieval Ghent Martha Howell Cultivation and Consumption: Medieval Lübeck’s Gardens Charlotte Masemann

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Book SynopsisThis study presents detailed information on the book production per century and on the uses of medieval manuscripts in eleven areas of the Latin West. Based on a sample from an extensive library and on additional information the numbers of manuscripts surviving from the period 500 – 1500 have been assessed statistically. Other data have been used to quantify the loss rates of such books in the Latin West. Combining both sets of data allowed the estimation of the medieval production rates of manuscripts. Book production during the Middle Ages can be seen as a century-average indicator of local economic output. With a number of explanatory variables (monasteries, universities) the medieval book production in the Latin West can be adequately explained.Trade ReviewAstonishing results...[Buringh's] excellent glossary and use of verbal and pictorial illustrations instead of formulae are a model of clarity and transparency for the humanists whose jargon and theory may be impenetrable to counters and comparers like Buringh...This book deserves a wide audience. Steven Epstein, Speculum, vol. 87, no. 1, (2012), pp. 188-190. ...ungeahnten perspektiven...es werden Entwicklungslinien sichtbar, die zwar notwendigerweise mit grobem Strich gezeichnet sind, aber dennoch Erkenntnisse zur Produktion mittelaltlicher Bücher vermitteln, die auf einem soliden statistischen Fundament zu ruhen scheinen. Jurgen Geiss, IFB A monumental achievement...the creation and manipulation of the manuscript database allows Buringh to illustrate and explain a long-term change in one of the factors of the medieval economy that can be measured with some degree of certainty.The inventive and methodologically sound use of sampling and statistical analysis allows for clear patterns of change and development to emerge. It is to be hoped that this database will be built upon and that an expansion and refinement of the information it can produce will provide historians with further insights into this important reflector of cultural and economic development. Steven Biddlecombe, Economic History Review, vol. 65, no. 1, (2012), pp. 377-378.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Symbols, Acronyms and Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Methodological Approach 2.1. Manuscripts 2.2. Database 2.3. Validations of the Database 2.4. Shelf Marks 2.5. Categories of Uses 2.6. Loss Rates 2.7. Extrapolations and Calibrations 2.8. Similarity Quantification 2.9. Inferences 2.10. Historical Data in the Latin West 2.11. Discussion and Conclusions 3. Global Distributions of Manuscripts 3.1. Total Manuscript Numbers 3.2. Distributions of Manuscripts in the Database 3.3. Global Uses 3.4. Shifts in Regional Uses of Manuscripts 3.5. Discussion and Conclusions 4. Losses of Medieval Manuscripts 4.1. Loss Rates 4.2. Loss Rates in England 4.3. Loss Rates in the Rest of the World 4.4. Survival of Manuscripts in the Latin West 4.5. Discussion and Conclusions on Losses of Manuscript 5. Production of Medieval Manuscripts in the Latin West 5.1. Calculation of Production Rates 5.2. Comparison of Estimates 5.3. On Uncertainties in the Production Estimates 5.4. Further Discussions and Conclusions 6. Historical Support for the Production Estimates in the Latin West 6.1. ‘Early-Christian equilibrium’ (Sixth to Seventh Century) 6.2. ‘Early-Medieval Stability’ (Ninth to Tenth Century) 6.3. ‘From Uniformity to Differentiation’ (Twelfth to Thirteenth Century) 6.4. ‘Fragmentation of Uses’ (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Century) 6.5. Further Discussions and Conclusions 7. Medieval Manuscripts as a Yardstick 7.1. Other Medieval Output Indicators 7.2. Variables related to Manuscript Production 7.3. Monastic Output of Manuscripts 7.4. Lay Output of Manuscripts 7.5. Overall Discussion and Conclusions Annexes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative research that explores the dynamic ways in which diverse textile production and trade regions generated the ’first globalization’. A series of experts connect this global commodity with the dramatic political and economic transformations that characterised the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Collectively, the essays transform our understanding of the contribution of South Asian cloth to the making of the modern world economy.Trade Review"There are few books that can equal [this book] in providing readers with an appreciation of the variety of interconnections between different regions of the world before the nineteenth century. Cloth, it clearly demonstrates, is an invaluable entry point into global economic history." – Douglas Haynes, Dartmouth College, in: H-Net "How India Clothed the World is an ambitious book which takes a comprehensive look at South Asian textiles from the minutiae of technology and procurement to the global movement of products and 'invisible cargoes'." – Anand V. Swamy, William College, in: Journal of Economic History "Until recently, the production and exchange of textiles were understood as purely economic activities in which production technology, weavers, merchants, companies, and markets played a prominent role. This volume, instead, invokes consumer choice, fashion, gender, social hierarchy, aesthetics, and the dissemination of knowledge as playing important roles in determining the consumption and production of textiles in both Asia and Europe." – Ghulam Nadri, Georgia State University, in: Economic History ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps List of Figures List of Tables Preface Introduction: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850, Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy I. REGIONS OF EXCHANGE: TEXTILES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND BEYOND 1. Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 1600-1850, Anthony Reid 2. Cloths of a New Fashion: Indian Ocean Networks of Exchange and Cloth Zones of Contact in Africa and India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Pedro Machado 3. English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa, Joseph Inikori 4. British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, H. V. Bowen 5. The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800-1850Kaoru Sugihara II. REGIONS OF PRODUCTION: TEXTILES IN SOUTH ASIA 6. The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 1500-1800, David Washbrook 7. Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry, Ian Wendt 8. From Market-determined to Coercion-based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Om Prakash 9. The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy, Lakshmi Subrahmanian 10. Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: The Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century, Bishnupriya Gupta III. REGIONS OF CHANGE: INDIAN TEXTILES AND EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT 11. The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons, Giorgio Riello 12. The French Connection: Indian Cottons and their Early Modern Technology, George Bryan Souza 13. Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 1500-1800, Beverly Lemire 14. Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade, Maxine Berg 15. Historical Issues of Deindustrialisation in Nineteenth-Century South India, Prasannan Parthasarathi Glossary Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHausa society in West Africa has attracted researchers’ attention for decades, and has featured in the historical record for at least 500 years. Yet, no clear picture is available of the historical trajectories that underpin Hausa ethnogenesis. This book addresses this gap, deploying interdisciplinary approaches to revisit questions to which single disciplines have given partial answers, often due to the paucity of written sources for early periods of Hausa history. Contributors draw from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, economic history, and archaeology to enquire into how a ‘Hausa’ identity took shape and what have been its changing material and cultural manifestations. The result is a compelling overview of one of the most iconic groups of modern West Africa.Trade Review'Precisely what it means to be Hausa and whether Hausa speakers compose a specific ethnic group has long been a vexed question. The editors of this volume on Hausa identity and social life in West Africa conceptualize ethnicity as a "category of practice," situated within a particular historical context. They have brought together essays that critically examine what being Hausa means from linguistic, archaeological, sociocultural, and historical perspectives. Following a thoughtful introduction, the volume's 12 chapters focus on several themes: language, archaeology, material culture, and religion, mainly in areas associated with present-day Nigeria and Niger. Contributors use historical and comparative linguistic evidence, place-names, and proverbs to present reconstructions of early histories of Hausaland, while archaeological studies provide material evidence of social organization and economic production in emergent Hausa societies. Others consider Hausa precolonial textile industries and museum dress collections. Two chapters on religious practice, both Islamic and Christian, among contemporary Hausa-speaking societies in Niger underscore the ways that past social dynamics inform the present. A final chapter returns to the question of studying the "Hausaisation process." Essential reading for those concerned with Hausa identity, language, and historical and regional studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above'. E. P. Renne, University of Michigan - Reviewed in 2011may CHOICE. 'This book shows that gone are the days when one could use the European or missionary archives as the only source for studying African ethnicities, as if such historical records can be applied beyond the time of their production. No wonder this anachronistic tendency, as especially shown in some recent studies described as historical anthropology, is always eventually reductionist. The broad multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary agendas and the longitudinal views, as well as the expansive theoretical frameworks, that Haour and Rossi and their collaborators have persued in this book provide useful templates for the future study of cultural and ethnolinguistic identities in Africa'. Akinwumi Ogundiran, University of North Carolina - Reviewed in March 2012 Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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Book SynopsisIt seems undeniable that Jan de Vries has cast an indelible impression upon the field of early modern economic history. Utilizing the methods and concepts pioneered by de Vries, the contributors in this Festschrift display the depth and breadth of his influence, with applications ranging from trade to architecture, from the Netherlands to China, and from the 1400s to the present day.Trade Review"[...] [T]hese are worthy pieces in a worthy cause." Paul M. Hohenberg (emeritus Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), EH.Net, December 2011Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Jan de Vries and his Contributions, Joel Mokyr The Birth of Modern Europe: Determining the Margins of the Work of Jan de Vries, Laura Cruz The Tobacco Nation: English Tobacco Dealers and Pipe-Makers in Rotterdam, 1620- 1650, Wim Klooster The Market for Architecture in Holland, 1500-1815, Maarten Prak From Shelf to Maps: Reconstructing Bookselling Networks in the Seventeenth Century Netherlands, Laura Cruz Hoare´s Bank in the Eighteenth Century, Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth Modest Households and Globally Traded Textiles:Evidence from Amsterdam Household Inventories, Anne McCants Britain’s Asian Century: Porcelain and Global History in the Long Eighteenth Century, Maxine Berg Repeat Migration between Europe and the United States, 1870-1914, Drew Keeling The Industrious Revolution and Labour Force Participation of Rural Women Evidence from Mid-Nineteenth-Century France, George Grantham and Franque Grimard The Industrious Revolution in America, Gavin Wright Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhy did the Industrial Revolution happen in Western Europe? Was it a sudden acceleration of the European economy, or should we look at specific institutions arising in Western Europe since the Middle Ages? This book puts these big questions of European economic history in a global perspective, deals with the institutions that developed in Europe, and measures their relative efficiency over time and compared with other parts of Eurasia. It traces the growth of human capital in the centuries between 1000 and 1800, in comparison with China, Japan and India. It also demonstrates how important the European Marriage Pattern was for understanding Europe’s past. The result is a new synthesis of the origins of the Industrial Revolution. Originally published in hardcover.Trade Review...una obra de sumo interes para todos los historiadores económicos e interesados en el desarrollo económico, muy ambiciosa, que entreña la consagracíon definitiva de un gran maestro... Enrique Llopis Agelán, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Investigaciones de Historia Económica, 2011: 19, 189-193Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution Part One Medieval Foundations Introducing the Problem: The Emergence of Efficient Institutions in the Middle Ages Why the European Economy Expanded Rapidly in a Period of Political Fragmentation Book Production as a Mirror of Emerging European Knowledge Economy (with Eltjo Buringh) Part Two The Little Divergence within Europe Introducing the Problem: the Little Divergence within Europe, 1400-1800 4. Girlpower. The European Marriage Pattern and Labour Markets in the North Sea Tegion in the Late Medieval Period (with Tine de Moor) Part Three Common Workmen, Philosophers and the Birth of a European Knowledge Economy Introducing the Problem: The Birth of a European Knowledge Economy 5. The Human Capital of the Common Workmen: European Skill Premium in the a Global Perspective 6. The Philosophers and the Revolution of the Printing Press Part Four Towards the Dual Revolution: State Formation and Modern Economic Growth 7. State Formation and Citizenship: The Dutch Republic between Medieval Communes and Modern Nation States (with Maarten Prak). 8. The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth in the North Sea Region Part Five Two Great Divergences 9. The Arab World, China, and Japan Conclusion: ‘A million mutinies’ Appendix One. Further experiments with the Cobb Douglas production function: Italy and Western Europe Appendix Two. Estimating Chinese GDP per capita in the eighteenth century

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Book SynopsisThis volume, intended to complement Hotta-Lister’s original 1999 study, marks the centenary of London’s 1910 great Japan-British Exhibition, which was held at White City, Shepherd’s Bush, and attracted over eight million visitors during its six-month stay. While the initiative came from Britain, the Japanese Government was the major source of funding for the Japanese side of the Exhibition. Using the Anglo-Japanese Alliance as its springboard, Japan – at the time a new colonial power – hoped to bring about a greater understanding of its cultures and traditions and thereby stimulate trade and commerce between the two countries. In the event, the Japanese press, unlike the British press, took umbrage at what they considered the trivialization of Japanese culture, thus in part frustrating the positive cultural, commercial and political outcomes that were hoped for. Eighteen months later, Emperor Meiji died and the Great War of 1914-18 followed soon after, thereby relegating the exhibition – its origins, composition, relevance and impact – to oblivion until recent times. The papers in this volume, therefore, drawn from four ‘centenary conferences’ held in London and Tokyo, offer an important spotlight on the exhibition’s legacy – specifically in the contexts of commerce and culture. The contents include the following themes: The Exhibition and domestic conditions in Britain and Japan; the Exhibition and Japan’s economic background; selling the ‘backward’ Japanese economy; imperialism and the Exhibition; the Japanese media and the Exhibition; the arts of Britain and Japan; Ainu in London; Japanese fine art; the human legacy; Japanese gardens. This book has wide inter-disciplinary relevance for students in modern East Asian Studies, but especially in the context of colonial and economic history, inter-cultural exchange and Anglo-Japanese relations.Trade ReviewThe fifteen chapters of Commerce and Culture at the 1910- Japan-British Exhibition analyze divers aspects of the exhibition from multiple academic perspectives. […] the papers of Ian Nish, Peter O’Conner and Keiko Itoh are of special interest as they place [the exhibition] in a broader context. […] This reviewer learned a great deal from Commerce and Culture at the 1910- Japan-British Exhibition. Sano Mayuko in Japan Review Nr. 28 (2015), pp. 261-261.

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Book SynopsisSettler colonialism was a major aspect of the imperial age that began in the sixteenth century and has encompassed the whole world unto the present. Modern settler societies have together constituted one of the major routes to economic development from their foundation in resource abundance and labour scarcity. This book is a major and wide-ranging comparative historical enquiry into the experiences of the settler world. The roles of indigenous dispossession, large-scale immigrant labour, land abundance, trade, capital, and the settler institutions, are central to this economic formation and its history. The chapters examine those economies that emerged as genuine colonial hybrids out of their differing neo-European backgrounds, with distinctive post-independence structures and an institutional persistence into the present as independent states. Contributors include Stanley Engerman, Susan Carter, Henry Willebald, Luis Bertola, Claude Lützelschwab, Frank Tough, Kathleen Dimmer, Tony Ward, Drew Keeling, Carl Mosk, David Meredith, Martin Shanahan, John K Wilson, Bernard Attard, Grietjie Verhoef, Tim Rooth, Francine McKenzie, Jorge Alvarez, Jim McAloon, as well as the editors.Trade Review"The [...] volume is a warmly welcomed addition to [the] expanding literature on the unity of the settler economy experience. [...] Settler Economies in World History provides an entertaining and valuable snapshot of the state of research in different branches of the economic history of settler societies. [...] [I]t represents a worthwhile addition to our growing knowledge of settler societies and their economies." – Gary B. Magee, in: Settler Colonial Studies 4/1 (2014), pp. 122-124 [DOI: 10.1080/2201473X.2013.831337]Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Unified Approach to the Economic History of Settler Economies, Richard Sutch 1. Settler Colonization and Societies in World History: Patterns and Concepts, Christopher Lloyd and Jacob Metzer PART A – GENERAL PERSPECTIVES 2. Why the Settlers Soared: The Dynamics of Immigration and Economic Growth in the ‘Golden Age’ for settler Societies, Susan Carter and Richard Sutch 3. Five Hundred Years of European Colonization: Inequality and Paths of Development, Stanley Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff 4. Uneven Development Paths Among Settler Societies, 1870-2000, Henry Willebald and Luis Bértola 5. Settler Colonialism in Africa, Claude Lützelschwab 6. Jews in Mandatory Palestine and Additional Phenomena of Atypical Settler Colonization in Modern Time, Jacob Metzer PART B - COMPARATIVE THEMES Settler-Indigenous Relations 7. Dispossession by the Market on the Frontier of Property Systems: Case Studies of the Maori Land Court, Indian Reservation Allotment, and Métis Scrip, Frank Tough and Kathleen Dimmer 8. The Aboriginal Economy in Settler Societies: Maori and Canadian Prairie Indians, Tony Ward Labor and Migration 9. Patterns and Processes of Migration, Drew Keeling 10. Three Island Frontiers: Japanese Migration in the Pacific, Carl Mosk 11. Coerced Labour in Southern Hemisphere Settler Economies, David Meredith 12. Labor Market Outcomes in settler Economies Between 1870 and 1913: Accounting for Differences in Labor Hours and Occupations, Martin Shanahan and John K Wilson Finance and Capital Flows 13. Wakefieldian Investment and the Birth of New Societies, c 1830-1930, Bernard Attard 14. Financial Intermediaries in Settler Economies, Grietjie Verhoef Trade and Investment 15. International Trade and Investment of the Settler Economies during the Twentieth Century: Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, Tim Rooth 16. Trade, Dominance, Dependence and the end of the Settlement Era in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, 1920-1973, Francine McKenzie Institutional Development 17. So Similar, So Different: New Zealand and Uruguay in the World Economy, Jorge Alvarez and Luis Bértola 18. The State and Economic Development in 20th Century Australia and New Zealand, Jim McAloon 19. Institutional Patterns of the Settler Societies: Hybrid, Parallel, and Convergent, Christopher Lloyd Index

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Book SynopsisThe Economic History of European Jews attempts to make sense of the economic foundations of Jewish life in the different parts of late antique and early medieval Europe. In the first part Michael Toch describes the demographic arc, decline, subsequent rise, and spatial distribution of Jewish populations. This data is then broadened to include the range of economic activities. The second part analyses the actual share of Jews in different branches of the economy. This includes the idea of their pioneer role and the notion of an intercontinental network of Jewish commerce, the phenomenon of Jews in agriculture and entrepreneurship, gender roles and the household mode of production, and the difficult subject of the significance of minority status for economic activity, among other subjects. "This is the most up-to-date scholarly reassessment of a century of both overly optimistic and occasionally negative interpretations of Jewish population and economic activities, a boon to students and researchers of the first millennium of the Jewish experience in Europe, and an interesting read for the general public." S. Bowman, University of CincinnatiTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I: Stocktaking: Regional Populations and Livelihoods Chapter 1. Byzantium Chapter 2. Italy Chapter 3. Gaul, the Lands of the Franks, France and Germany Chapter 4. The Iberian Peninsula Chapter 5. Eastern Europe Part II: Economic Functions and Significance Chapter 6. Jews, Commerce and Money Chapter 7. Landholding, Crafts, Enterprises, Medicine, and the Internal Jewish Economy Chapter 8. Historical Conclusions Maps Appendix 1: Places of Jewish Settlement in the Byzantine Empire Appendix 2: Places of Jewish Settlement in Italy Appendix 3: Places of Jewish Settlement in France and Germany Appendix 4: Places of Jewish Settlement in Iberia Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMining, Monies, and Culture in Early Modern Societies explores substantial and methodological issues in the early modern history of mining for monetary metals and monies of Japan, China, and Europe. The largest group in the thirteen articles presents empirical research on mining, metallurgy, and metals trade in the context of global trade systems. Another group focuses on the effects of money in government and everyday life. Several articles investigate scroll paintings and material remains as sources for the history of technology, or apply Geographic Information Systems to the analysis of spatial dimensions of mining areas.

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Book SynopsisIn War, Entrepreneurs, and the State, Jeff Fynn-Paul (Leiden) assembles an internationally acclaimed selection of authors to push forward the debate on the role of entrepreneurs in making war and building states in Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Topics covered include logistics, supply, recruitment, and the finance of war. Chapters have been carefully commissioned with an eye towards complementarity. In an introduction co-written with Marjolein ‘t Hart and Griet Vermeesch, Fynn-Paul challenges existing discourses of military entrepreneurialism. A new benchmark is proposed: did states choose to work with entrepreneurs, or to restrict their activities and subvert the market? From the introduction and the individual chapters, a new more expansive vision of the military entrepreneur emerges. Contributors are: Carlos Álvarez-Nogal, Pepijn Brandon, William Caferro, Stephen Conway, Thomas Goossens, Aaron Graham, Rhoads Murphey, David Parrott, Helen Paul, Guy Rowlands, Kahraman Şakul, Marjolein 't Hart, Andrea Thiele, and Rafael Torres Sánchez.Trade Review"This collection of essays is a valuable contribution towards helping us better understand a hitherto neglected area in the study of the relationship between the state and its military in the early modern world. It is a subject that holds much promise and this volume demonstrates how that promise is being fulfilled." - Henry QuinnTable of ContentsAcknowledgements…vii List of Tables and Figures…viii Notes on Contributors…ix Introduction...1 Entrepreneurs, Military Supply, and State Formation in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods: New Directions Jeff Fynn-Paul, Marjolein ’t Hart and Griet Vermeesch Part 1: The Medieval Origins of Military Entrepreneurialism...13 1 Military Enterprise in Florence at the Time of the Black Death, 1349–1350...15 William Caferro 2 Military Entrepreneurs in the Crown of Aragon during the Castilian–Aragonese War, 1356–1375...32 Jeff Fynn-Paul Part 2: Early Modern Evolution: Varieties of Entrepreneurial Freedom...61 3 The Military Enterpriser in the Thirty Years’ War...63 David Parrott 4 Public Service and Private Profijit: British Fiscal-Military Entrepreneurship Overseas, 1707–1712...87 Aaron Graham 5 Entrepreneurs and the Recruitment of the British Army in the War of American Independence, 1775–1783...111 Stephen Conway 6 Suppliers to the Royal African Company and the Royal Navy in the Early Eighteenth Century...131 Helen Julia Paul 7 Accounting for Power: Bookkeeping and the Rationalization of Dutch Naval Administration...151 Pepijn Brandon 8 The Prince as Military Entrepreneur? Why Smaller Saxon Territories Sent ‘Hollandische Regimenter’ (Dutch Regiments) to the Dutch Republic...170 Andrea Thiele 9 The Grip of the State? Government Control over Provision of the Army in the Austrian Netherlands, 1725–1744...193 Thomas Goossens Part 3: Early Modern Evolution: Controlling and Circumventing the Entrepreneur...213 10 Agency Government in Louis XIV’s France: The Military Treasurers of the Elite Forces...215 Guy Rowlands 11 Centralized Funding of the Army in Spain: The Garrison Factoria in the Seventeenth Century...235 Carlos Alvarez-Nogal 12 In the Shadow of Power: Monopolist Entrepreneurs, the State and Spanish Military Victualling in the Eighteenth Century...260 Rafael Torres Sanchez Part 4: Ottoman Perspectives...285 13 Rewarding Success in Military Enterprise: Forms Used for the Incentivizing of Commanders and their Troops in the Ottoman Military System of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries...287 Rhoads Murphey 14 The Evolution of Ottoman Military Logistical Systems in the Later Eighteenth Century: The Rise of A New Class of Military Entrepreneur...307 Kahraman Şakul Bibliography...329 Index...353

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Book SynopsisIn Gold and Jade Filled Halls: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Financial and Economic Expressions in Chinese and German Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh offers an account of how we use financial linguistic expressions every day. They include various linguistic vehicles and cultural models that are related to the real world, such as gold, the stock market, animals, and plants. The cross-linguistic research benefits the understanding of the cultural value and model of cognition embedded in languages. It also provides useful strategies for learning language and possible social factors that influence human behaviors.

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Book SynopsisTechnology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. The book offers regional surveys of Europe, China and India, as well as comparative studies of building, porcelain manufacturing, instrument making, printing, and shipbuilding. The authors engage with the on-going debate about the ‘great divergence’ between Asia and Europe, and its possible causes. Technology has so far had a minor role in that debate. This book is bound to change that, through the bold claims made by various contributors. Contributors are: Karel Davids, S.R. Epstein †, Gijs Kessler, Jan Lucassen, Christine Moll-Murata, Patrick O'Brien, Kenneth Pomeranz, Maarten Prak, Tirthankar Roy, Richard Unger, and Jan Luiten van Zanden.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the authors Foreword by Patrick O’Brien Introduction: Technology, skills and the pre-modern economy in the East and the West, Maarten Prak, Jan Luiten van Zanden PART I: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 1. Transferring technical knowledge and innovating in Europe, c.1200 – c.1800, S.R. Epstein 2. Apprenticeship and Industrialization in India, 1600-1930, Tirthankar Roy 3. Skills, ‘guilds’, and development: Asking Epstein’s questions to East Asian institutions, Kenneth Pomeranz PART II: INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES 4. Mega-structures of the Middle Ages: The construction of religious buildings in Europe and Asia, c.1000-1500, Maarten Prak 5. The technology and teaching of shipbuilding, 1300-1800, Richard W. Unger 6. Moving machine-makers: Circulation of knowledge on machine-building in China and Europe between c. 1400 and the early nineteenth century, Karel Davids 7. Guilds and apprenticeship in China and Europe: The Jingdezhen and European ceramics industries, Christine Moll-Murata 8. Labour relations, efficiency and the Great Divergence: Comparing pre-industrial brick-making across Eurasia, 1500-2000, Gijs Kessler and Jan Lucassen 9. Explaining the global distribution of book production before 1800, Jan Luiten van Zanden Bibliography of the published works of S.R. Epstein Index

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Book SynopsisCloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative research that explores the dynamic ways in which diverse textile production and trade regions generated the ’first globalization’. A series of experts connect this global commodity with the dramatic political and economic transformations that characterised the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Collectively, the essays transform our understanding of the contribution of South Asian cloth to the making of the modern world economy.Trade Review"There are few books that can equal [this book] in providing readers with an appreciation of the variety of interconnections between different regions of the world before the nineteenth century. Cloth, it clearly demonstrates, is an invaluable entry point into global economic history." – Douglas Haynes, Dartmouth College, in: H-Net "How India Clothed the World is an ambitious book which takes a comprehensive look at South Asian textiles from the minutiae of technology and procurement to the global movement of products and 'invisible cargoes'." – Anand V. Swamy, William College, in: Journal of Economic History "Until recently, the production and exchange of textiles were understood as purely economic activities in which production technology, weavers, merchants, companies, and markets played a prominent role. This volume, instead, invokes consumer choice, fashion, gender, social hierarchy, aesthetics, and the dissemination of knowledge as playing important roles in determining the consumption and production of textiles in both Asia and Europe." – Ghulam Nadri, Georgia State University, in: Economic History ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps List of Figures List of Tables Preface Introduction: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850, Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy I. REGIONS OF EXCHANGE: TEXTILES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND BEYOND 1. Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 1600-1850, Anthony Reid 2. Cloths of a New Fashion: Indian Ocean Networks of Exchange and Cloth Zones of Contact in Africa and India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Pedro Machado 3. English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa, Joseph Inikori 4. British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, H. V. Bowen 5. The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800-1850Kaoru Sugihara II. REGIONS OF PRODUCTION: TEXTILES IN SOUTH ASIA 6. The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 1500-1800, David Washbrook 7. Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry, Ian Wendt 8. From Market-determined to Coercion-based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Om Prakash 9. The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy, Lakshmi Subrahmanian 10. Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: The Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century, Bishnupriya Gupta III. REGIONS OF CHANGE: INDIAN TEXTILES AND EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT 11. The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons, Giorgio Riello 12. The French Connection: Indian Cottons and their Early Modern Technology, George Bryan Souza 13. Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 1500-1800, Beverly Lemire 14. Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade, Maxine Berg 15. Historical Issues of Deindustrialisation in Nineteenth-Century South India, Prasannan Parthasarathi Glossary Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDutch Atlantic Connections focuses on the Dutch dimension of the integrated Atlantic World between 1680 and 1800. In recent years, it has increasingly become clear that Dutch activities in this Atlantic world were of far greater significance than historians hitherto assumed. This volume illustrates how Dutch networks functioned in the Atlantic and highlights the pivotal and, indeed, exceptional role of the Dutch in the Atlantic. The chapters present the economic function of the Dutch as middlemen and brokers who helped the Atlantic system operate by embedding themselves in the networks of other empires. This book also demonstrates the cultural impact of the Dutch in the Atlantic and of the Atlantic on the Dutch.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction, Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman Section 1: Caribbean Encounters 1 Curaçao as a Transit Center to the Spanish Main and the French West Indies, Wim Klooster 2 Paramaribo as Dutch and Atlantic Nodal Point, 1640–1795, Karwan Fatah-Black 3 Anglo-Dutch Trade in the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean,1621–1733, Christian Koot Section 2: European Encounters 4 The French Atlantic and the Dutch, Late Seventeeth-Late Eighteenth Century, Silvia Marzagalli 5 Anglo-Dutch Economic Relations in the Atlantic World, 1688–1783, Kenneth Morgan 6 A Network-Based Merchant Empire: Dutch Trade in the Hispanic Atlantic (1680–1740), Ana Crespo Solana 7 A Public and Private Dutch West India Interest, Henk den Heijer Section 3: Intellectual and Intercultural Encounters 8 Adultery Here and There: Crossing Sexual Boundaries in the Dutch Jewish Atlantic, Aviva Ben-Ur and Jessica V. Roitman 9 The Scholarly Atlantic: Circuits of Knowledge Between Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Americas in the Eighteenth Century, Karel Davids 10 The “Dutch” “Atlantic” and the Dubious Case of Frans Post, Benjamin Schmidt Section 4: Shifting Encounters 11 The Eighteenth-Century Danish, Dutch and Swedish Free Ports in the Northeastern Caribbean: Continuity and Change, Han Jordaan and Victor Wilson 12 Dutch Atlantic Decline During “The Age of Revolutions”, Gert Oostindie Section 5: Perspectives on the Dutch Atlantic 13 The Rise and Decline of the Dutch Atlantic, 1600–1800, Pieter C. Emmer 14 Conclusion: The Dutch Moment in Atlantic Historiography, Alison Games Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the evolution of the institutional structure of the Dutch political economy since 1950. It sketches in broad strokes the origin and economic role of coordination in the Netherlands. The Dutch economy is compared with other OECD countries by using the ‘varieties of capitalism’ theory and distinguishing between coordinated and liberal market economies. The author focuses on the constant adaptation of deliberative institutions in the business system, in labor relations, and in welfare policy. The complex institutional setting did not prevent the economy from participating in the globalization of markets and capital that took place since ca. 1980. The book is located at the intersection of two quite different literatures: modern economic history and the political science literature on ‘varieties of capitalism’.Trade Review[...] [A]n impressive and voluminous book of which the principal title, Coordination in Transition, neatly captures the key theme [...]. One of the new contributions of this book is that it also analyzes recent economic history of the Netherlands, in contrast with most other Dutch studies that only treat the twentieth century. Also readers with no particular interest in the Dutch case (or those who think they already know the country, for that matter) will find this book worthwhile to read, as each chapter sets out with a broader treatment of theoretical considerations before analyzing the Netherlands, each time accompanied by a comparison with several other western OECD countries; and as the author makes relevant statements about (developments of) LMEs and CMEs in general. [...] The large number of interesting footnotes and references underline the thoroughness and dedication with which the book was written. Annette van den Berg (Utrecht University School of Economics), EH.Net, Book Review (August 2015).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ... vii List of Tables and Figures .. viii List of Abbreviations ... xii 1 Introduction: A Tension between Coordination and Competition? ... 1 Coordination in the Netherlands ... 1 Traditions of Approaching Institutions ... 10 Capitalisms Compared ... 17 2 Growth and Structural Change in the Netherlands and Other OECD Economies ... 33 Have 50 Years of Structural Change Lessened the Degree of Coordination? ... 33 Economic Growth in the Netherlands after World War II ... 35 The ‘Convergence Club’ of Dissimilar OECD Economies ... 44 Alternative Indicators of Economic Development ... 52 Structural Economic Change and Technological Change ... 62 Effects of Technological Change on the Typology of ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ ... 78 Conclusion: More Market, not Less Coordination ... 86 3 At Ease with the Market: Coordination in the Dutch Business System ... 88 Characteristics of the Dutch Business System ... 88 Business Systems, Culture, Family Firms ... 89 The Composition of the Private Sector ... 100 Cooperation among Firms ... 104 Interlocking Directorates and Other Aspects of Corporate Governance ... 116 Eager Globalizer: The Openness of the Dutch Economy ... 123 Conclusion: Worldwide Developments and Local Adjustments ... 135 4 Corporatism and Pragmatism: Coordination in Labor Relations ... 142 Where Did Dutch Coordination Come from and Where Will It Go? ... 142 Specific Aspects of Coordination in Labor Relations ... 143 The Evolution of the Dutch Consultative System ... 148 From Postwar Consensus to Polarization ... 166 Institutional Change after the Wassenaar Agreement of 1982 ... 172 The Central Position of the SER and the Failure of the Green Polder Model ... 184 Labor in a Changing World: The Netherlands in a European Context ... 190 Conclusion: A Pragmatist Tradition of Consultation ... 201 5 Coordination and Trust: The Dutch Welfare State ... 205 Coordination and the Welfare State ... 205 The Peculiar Path of the Dutch Welfare State ... 209 Monitoring the Levels of Social Spending ... 227 Effects of Coordination on the Development of the Dutch Welfare State ... 240 Conclusion: Coordinated Interest in Social Protection ... 248 6 Economic Policy: In Search of Shared Economic Responsibility ... 250 Reconciling Different Agendas ... 250 Economic and Social Goals of Dutch Postwar Policy ... 255 Changing Policy Priorities During the 1980s and 1990s ... 262 Towards a New Type of Capitalism: Privatization, Liberalization, and Reregulation ... 276 Effects of Coordination on Government Policy ... 291 Conclusion: Coordinated Neoliberal Capitalism ... 312 7 Changing Context, Changing Framework ... 316 General Conclusions on Coordination ... 316 Non-market Coordination in the Netherlands ... 323 Towards the Future ... 337 Bibliography ... 343 Index ... 369

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Book SynopsisIn Carriers of Growth? Ann Coenen sheds new light on the vigorous debate about international trade and economic development in the Early Modern Period. The Austrian Netherlands offer an intriguing case that challenges ruling opinions within the largely Anglo-Saxon literature. By focusing on a number of key trade sectors (salt, textiles, colonial commodities, coal and grain) Ann Coenen exposes the various effects of trade and trade policy throughout all layers of the eighteenth-century society.Table of ContentsPreface ... ix List of Map, Charts and Tables ... xi List of Abbreviations ... xv Glossary ... xvi Introduction ... 1 Part 1 Theoretical Background 1 International Trade and Economic Development ... 11 2 The Austrian Netherlands in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: A Cautious Recovery ... 17 3 International Trade by a Commercially ‘Passive’ Participant ... 22 4 Sources for the History of Eighteenth-Century International Trade ... 27 1 The Habsburg Customs Statistics: Magnum Opus of the Customs Administration ... 27 2 The Tariff Books: A Look Behind the Curtain of the Trade Policy ... 33 3 The Large Legacy of the Bureau de la régie ... 36 Part 2 International Trade in the Austrian Netherlands: An Assessment of Its Value 5 The Balance of Trade ... 41 1 State of the Art ... 42 2 Approach ... 44 3 Results ... 46 4 What Did It Mean? ... 57 5 The Pitfalls of the Balance of Trade ... 60 6 Revealed Comparative Advantages Through International Trade Contributions ... 61 7 Conclusion ... 65 Part 3 International Trade in the Austrian Netherlands, a Study of Five Key Sectors 6 The Salt Trade: The Flavour of Progress ... 69 1 “The salt of life” ... 69 2 The Salt Sector in the Austrian Netherlands ... 70 3 The Salt Flows ... 82 4 Contradicting Histories? ... 90 5 Conclusion ... 93 7 The Textile Trade: A Tradition in Decay? ... 95 1 The Eighteenth-Century Textile Sector ... 95 2 The Economic Weight of the Textile Branches ... 97 3 A Textile Landscape in Evolution ... 106 4 Explaining the Shifts Within the Textile Sector ... 153 5 The Impact of Trade on Different Stakeholders ... 163 6 Conclusion ... 169 8 The Trade in Colonial Commodities: Introducing the Exotic ... 173 1 The Irresistible Lure of Exotic Produce ... 175 2 Incorporating the New ... 185 3 Market Capacity or Smart Policy? ...195 4 Conclusion ... 198 9 The Coal Trade: A Motor for Development? ... 199 1 “The Basis, as Always, was Coal” ... 199 2 The Coal Sector: In Britain’s Shadow? ... 202 3 International Trade: Source de prospérité or Paralysing Influence? ... 204 4 The Coal Flows ... 214 5 Effects of the Coal Trade on the Habsburg Economy ... 223 6 Parallels Between the Salt and the Coal Sector ... 228 7 Conclusion ... 230 10 To Trade or Not to Trade? The Grain Trade ... 232 1 Grains in the Eighteenth-Century Austrian Netherlands ... 234 2 Changing Policies: Fickleness or Decisiveness? ... 236 3 The International Grain Trade: Capricious Flows ... 245 4 Conclusion ... 251 Part 4 The Development of Transit Trade as theTrade Policy’s Litmus Test 11 Transit Trade ... 255 Conclusion ... 271 Appendices ... 277 Bibliography ... 298 Index ... 316

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Book SynopsisIn Dutch Deltas, Werner Scheltjens examines the emergence, functions and structure of the Low Countries’ maritime transport system between ca. 1300 and 1850. Scheltjens introduces the delta as a suitable geographical unit of analysis for understanding the regional economic origins of communities of maritime transporters. The author proves that changes in maritime trade networks and in the structure of regional economies entailed a process of specialisation, which led to the emergence of ‘professional’ maritime transport communities and the development of an integrated maritime transport market with Amsterdam and Rotterdam as its main centres. Dutch Deltas offers the first comprehensive study of the economic geography of the Low Countries’ maritime transport sector and its long-term development between 1300 and 1850.Trade Review'[The book] is a valuable and original complement to the well-known discourse on Dutch involvement in early modern seaborne trade.' Tijl Vanneste (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), in: Renaissance Quarterly, Volume LXX, No. 2, p. 745-747.Table of ContentsPreface ... vii List of Illustrations ... x List of Abbreviations ... xiv Introduction ... 1 Historiography ... 1 Deltas ... 8 Sources ... 11 Conversion ... 16 Name Matching ... 23 1 Locations ... 27 Overview ... 27 Rise and Fall ... 30 Before 1400 ... 31 1400–1500 ... 35 1500–1600 ... 41 1600–1700 ... 47 1700–1800 ... 58 Conclusions ... 64 2 Functions ... 66 Method ... 66 Transport Market Integration ... 72 The Port System of the Dutch Deltas in a European Context ... 83 Conclusions ... 89 3 Production ... 91 The Production of Grain Transport Services ... 91 The Spatial Structure of Grain Transport Services ... 107 Group 1 ... 112 Group 2 ... 118 Group 3 ... 122 Conclusions ... 129 4 Domiciles ... 131 Domicile Ambiguity ... 131 Virtual Migration ... 139 Conclusions ... 144 5 Usances ... 146 Conclusions ... 162 Appendices ... 169 Appendix to Chapter 1 ... 169 Appendix to Chapter 2 ... 224 Appendix to Chapter 3 ... 240 Appendix to Chapter 4: Domicile Ambiguity Matrix ... 290 Bibliography ... 301 Archives ... 301 Primary Sources ... 301 Secondary Literature ... 303 Index ... 318

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Book SynopsisModern bank insurance is traced to its roots in The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933. Frederic Delano Grant, Jr. provides new understandings of the Canton System, collective responsibility for debt at Canton, and the history of deposit insurance. The Canton Guaranty System inspired radical reform in New York in 1829 – the ancestor of all modern deposit insurance. Yet it was never the success imagined, and soon failed. In the Opium War, the Chinese government as implicit guarantor was forced to pay its debts in full on 23 July 1843. The afflictions of the Chinese system, including moral hazard, too big to fail, and unenforced laws, remain familiar today.Trade Review“As the United States and China are today inextricably interlocked in trade and investment, so too are their legal systems. This makes knowledge of the origins of this world-shaping economic cooperation, and the roles of law in its development, more important than ever. Frederic Grant’s well-researched and interesting book sheds new light on all of this and China’s previously-unknown influence on American business law in the nineteenth century.” Jerome Alan Cohen, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law A "piece of masterly detective work on how ideas travel over time and space, become adopted successfully in a different place, and then come back to where they started." Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow of the Fung Global Institute, Chief Advisor to the China Banking Regulatory Commission, former Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority “This is both a pioneering and a path-breaking study. Crossing national as well as disciplinary borders, it traces bank deposit insurance, the cornerstone of efforts to secure the stability of modern banking systems worldwide, to its origins in a government mandated private guarantee fund set up by the Cantonese hong merchants before 1800. Although that fund eventually failed due to moral hazard and other all too familiar problems, it had already become famous for its effectiveness, and was taken as the inspiration for banking reform in the United States. Using evidence from records of Western traders and North American law case records, and drawing on the author's rich experience as a lawyer and legal historian, this book shows the self-confidently global activity of these Chinese merchants and trade financiers. This is a substantial and innovative contribution to the global history of economic and legal institutions.” Rudolf Wagner, Senior Professor, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University. “Frederic Grant's legal history sleuthing enriches in stunning ways our understanding of old Canton as a nexus of globalization.” John E. Wills, Jr., Emeritus Professor of History, the University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix List of Illustrations ... xii List of Tables and Charts ... xiv Note on Spelling ... xv Glossary ... xvi 1. Introduction ... 1 1.1 Subject and Framework .... 3 1.2 Previous Research ... 8 1.3 The 1829 Crisis in the State of New York ... 13 1.4 The Crisis in the Chinese Port of Canton: 1829 ... 15 1.5 The 1829 Crises as Prologue ... 16 2. Sources of the Canton Guaranty System ... 18 2.1 Conquest and Pacification ... 18 2.2 The Organization of Merchants Engaged in Maritime Trade ... 31 2.3 Official Roots of Collective Responsibility ... 39 2.4 Collective Responsibility in Chinese Tradition ... 47 3. Evolution of the Canton Guaranty System ... 54 3.1 Official Management of Maritime Foreign Trade ... 54 3.2 The Security Merchant System and Origins of Collective Responsibility ... 60 3.3 The Formal Regulation of Maritime Foreign Trade ... 71 3.4 Debt Collection Under the Canton System ... 93 3.5 The 1780 Crisis and Imposition of the Collective Guaranty ... 111 4. The Fund is Drained, 1780-1799 ... 126 4.1 The Hong Merchants, 1780-1799 ... 127 4.2 The Demands of Government, 1780-1799 ... 129 4.3 Trading Conditions, 1780-1799 ... 132 4.4 The Collective Guaranty of Debt, 1780-1799 ... 138 5. Three Plagues: War, Piracy and Litigation, 1800-1814 ... 146 5.1 The Hong Merchants, 1800-1814 ... 148 5.2 The Demands of Government, 1800-1814 ... 151 5.3 Trading Conditions, 1800-1814 ... 154 5.4 The Collective Guaranty of Debt, 1800-1814 ... 157 5.5 The Abortive 1810 Receivership of Gnewqua II and Ponqua ... 159 5.6 The 1813 Receivership of the Junior Hong Merchants ... 163 6. Years of Rebound and Opium, 1815-1828 ... 166 6.1 The Hong Merchants, 1815-1828 ... 166 6.2 The Demands of Government, 1815-1828 ... 170 6.3 Trading Conditions, 1815-1828 ... 171 6.4 The Experience of Conseequa, 1796-1823 ... 173 6.5 The Collective Guaranty of Debt, 1815-1828 ... 184 7. The Last Years of the Canton System, 1829-1842 ... 192 7.1 The Hong Merchants, 1829-1842 ... 194 7.2 Trading Conditions, 1829-1842 ... 202 7.3 The Collective Guaranty of Debt, 1829-1842 ... 207 8. From Safety Fund to Bank Deposit Insurance ... 218 8.1 Joshua Forman ... 221 8.2 The Power of Suggestion ... 224 8.3 The Banking Crisis in the State of New York ... 226 8.4 The 1829 New York Safety Fund Statute ... 230 8.5 Early State Bank Guaranty Programs ... 237 8.6 Implementation of National Deposit Insurance in the United States ... 240 9. Eighty Years of Bank Deposit Insurance ... 252 9.1 Federal Deposit Insurance in the United States ... 253 9.2 The International Progress of Bank Deposit Insurance ... 257 10. Epilogue ... 263 Appendices Appendix 1. The Original Five Regulations (1760), Modern Translation ... 283 Appendix 2. The Original Five Regulations (1760), Contemporary Translation ... 286 Appendix 3. The Eight Regulations (1831) ... 291 Appendix 4. The Eight Regulations (1835) ... 301 Appendix 5. The Eight Regulations (Per W.C. Hunter) ... 312 Bibliography ... 315 Index ... 333

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