Industrialisation and industrial history Books

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 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 SynopsisQuestions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but others have disappeared altogether. This is clear not only from the improbably large number of books that survive in only one copy, but from many references in contemporary documents to books that cannot now be located. In this volume leading specialists in the field explore different aspects of this poorly understood aspect of book history: classes of texts particularly impacted by poor rates of survival; lost books revealed in contemporary lists or inventories; the collections of now dispersed libraries; deliberate and accidental destruction. A final section describes modern efforts at salvage and restitution following the devastation of the twentieth century.Trade Review“This is a rewarding and important book”. David McKitterick, Trinity College, Cambridge. In: Library & Information History, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2017), pp. 145-146. “Pettegree’s introduction, ‘The Legion of the Lost’ is a full-length essay discussing not only how books become lost but how one can know about what has been lost. It is accessible and engaging and would be a worthy reading assignment for undergraduates or masters students studying book history.” Iona Hine, The University of Sheffield. Reviewed for Linguistic DNA [10 January 2017].Table of Contents1. Andrew Pettegree, The Legion of the Lost. Recovering the Lost Books of Early Modern Europe. Part I: In the Beginning: lost incunabula 2. Falk Eisermann, The Gutenberg Galaxy’s Dark Matter: Lost Incunabula, and Ways to Retrieve Them 3. Jonathan Green and Frank McIntyre, Lost Incunable Editions: Closing In on an Estimate Part II: National Case-studies 4. Iain Fenlon, Lost Book of Polyphony from Renaissance Spain 5. Wolfgang Undorf, Lost Books, Lost Libraries, Lost Everything? A Scandinavian Early Modern Perspective 6. Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, In Search of Lost Fortuna. Reconstructing the Publishing History of the Polish Book of Fortune-Telling 7. Alexandra Hill, Lost Print in England: Entries in the Stationers’ Company Register, 1557-1640 8. Goran Proot, Survival factors of seventeenth-century hand-press books published in the Southern Netherlands: The importance of sheet counts, Sammelbände and the role of institutional collections 9. Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree, Publicity and its Uses. Lost Books as Revealed in Newspaper Advertisements in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic 10. Domenico Ciccarello, Lost Books and Dispersed Libraries in Sicily during the Seventeenth Century Part III: Censorship and its consequences 11. Christine Benevent and Malcolm Walsby, Lost Issues and Self-Censorship: Rethinking the Publishing History of Guillaume Budé’s De l’Institution du Prince 12. Michele Camaioni, The Editorial History of a Rare and Forbidden Franciscan Book of Italian Renaissance: the Dialogo della Unione Spirituale di Dio con l’anima by Bartolomeo Cordoni 13. Rosa Marisa Borraccini, An Unknown Bestseller: the Confessionario of Girolamo da Palermo 14. Roberto Rusconi, The Devil’s Trick. Impossible Editions in the Lists of Titles from the Regular Orders in Italy at the End of the Sixteenth Century 15. Giovanna Granata, On the Track of Lost Editions in Italian Religious Libraries at the End of the Sixteenth Century: a Numerical Analysis of the RICI Database Part IV. Libraries, private and public 16. Anna Giulia Cavagna, Loss and Meaning. Lost Books, Bibliographic Description and Significance in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Private Library 17. Martine van Ittersum, Confiscated Manuscripts and Books: What Happened to the Personal Library and Archive of Hugo Grotius Following His Arrest on Charges of High Treason in August 1618? 18. Maria Teresa Biagetti, Dispersed collections of scientific books: the case of the private library of Federico Cesi (1585-1630) 19. Alison Walker, Lost in Plain Sight: Rediscovering the Library of Sir Hans Sloane 20. Mark Towsey, Book Use and Sociability in Lost Libraries of the Eighteenth Century: Towards a Union Catalogue Part V: War and Peace: the depredations of modern times 21. Jan L. Alessandrini, Lost Books of ‘Operation Gomorrah’: Rescue, Reconstruction, and Restitution at Hamburg’s Library in the Second World War 22. Tomasz Nastulczyk, Two Centuries of Looting and the Grand Nazi Book Burning. The Dispersed and Destroyed Libraries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Historical Losses and Contemporary Attempts at Reconstruction 23. Flavia Bruni, All is not Lost. Italian Archives and Libraries in the Second World War 24. Saskia Limbach, Tracing Lost Broadsheet Ordinances Printed in Sixteenth-Century Cologne Index

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Book SynopsisInternational Exchange in the Early Modern Book World presents new research on several aspects of the movement and exchange of books between countries, languages and confessions. It considers elements of the international book trade, the circulation and collection of texts, the practice of translation and the diffusion and exchange of technical and cultural knowledge. Commercial and logistical aspects of the early modern book trade are considered, as are the relationships between local markets and the internationally-minded firms which sought to meet their expectations. The barriers to the movement of books across borders – political, linguistic, confessional, cultural – are explored, as are the means by which these barriers were surmounted.Trade Review“The incredibly rich and varied contributions in this volume reflect the current vibrancy of book history and underline how international the book world was in the first age of print, in terms of its agents and actors, authors and readers.” Alexander Samson, University College London. In: Publishing History, Vol. 80 (2019), pp. 107-112.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface PART ONE The International Book Trade: Business without Borders 1. Sales Channels for Bestsellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe Valentina Sebastiani 2. International Publishing and Local Needs: the Breviaries and Missals Printed by Plantin for the Spanish Crown Benito Rial Costas 3. Centre and Periphery? Relations between Frankfurt and Bologna in the Transnational Book Trade of the 1600s Caroline Duroselle-Melish 4. Selling Books in the Italian Renaissance. The Correspondence of Giovanni Bartolomeo Gabiano (1522) Angela Nuovo 5. Plantin and the French Book Market Malcolm Walsby PART TWO Cultural Transmissions and Political Exchange 6. Books as a Means of Transcultural Exchange between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik 7. ‘This Book Hath Been Often Call’d For’: Translations of Italian Works on the Dutch Revolt and the European Book Market Nina Lamal 8. The Pike and the Printing Press: Military Handbooks and the Gentrification of the Early-Modern Military Revolution Mark R. Geldof PART THREE Libraries, Collections, Ownership 9. How to Build a Library across Early-Modern Europe: the Network of Claude Expilly Shanti Graheli 10. Books without Borders. The Presence of the European Printing Press in the Italian Religious Libraries at the End of the Sixteenth Century Giovanna Granata 11. Angelica’s Book: the Power of Reading in Late Renaissance Florence Brendan Dooley PART FOUR Moving Music and Translating Tongues: Literature and Music between Countries 12. Confessional Networks, Cultural Exchange and the Printed Music of Jerome Commelin (ca.1550–1597) Matthew Laube 13. Sellers and Buyers of Italian Music around 1700: the Silvani Firm and G.B. Bassani’s Music in Italy and Central Europe Huub van der Linden 14. Translating Renaissance Drama: Networks, Platforms, Apps Anston Bosman 15. «Catullum Numquam Antea Lectum […] Lego»: a Short Analysis of Catullus’ Fortune in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Alina Laura de Luca 16. Intertraffic: Transnational Literatures and Languages in Late Renaissance England and Europe Warren Boutcher Index

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Book SynopsisIndia, Modernity and the Great Divergence is an original and pioneering book about India’s transition towards modernity and the rise of the West. The work examines global entanglements alongside the internal dynamics of 17th to 19th century Mysore and Gujarat in comparison to other regions of Afro-Eurasia. It is an interdisciplinary survey that enriches our historical understanding of South Asia, ranging across the fascinating and intertwined worlds of modernizing rulers, wealthy merchants, curious scholars, utopian poets, industrious peasants and skilled artisans. Bringing together socio-economic and political structures, warfare, techno-scientific innovations, knowledge production and transfer of ideas, this book forces us to rethink the reasons behind the emergence of the modern world.Trade Review"[Yazdani] has made an excellent contribution to the debate on the ‘Great Divergence’ and to Indian economic history." – Dietmar Rothermund, Prof. Em. of South Asian History, Heidelberg University, in: Studies in History (Volume 35, Number 1, February 2019), pp. 141-143. "a book [...] by a very promising young scholar who should be encouraged and whose substantial contribution deserves acknowedgment. His remarkable industry has assembled a truly impressive range of new sources that illuminate the intellectual, social, and economic life, politics, and military statecraft in Mysore and Gujarat as never before. This adds reference points in the divergence debate that will stimulate many new and fruitful lines of inquiry." – Erik Grimmler-Solem, Wesleyan University, in: History & Theory. Studies in the Philosophy of History (volume 57, no. 3, sept 2018), pp. 464-481 "Kaveh Yazdani’s work is hugely ambitious. It seeks simultaneously to attempt a micro-history of two advanced commercial regions of India – Mysore and Gujarat in the eighteenth century – and to intervene more broadly in the ongoing debates on modernity and its origins in the context of the great divergence between the west and the rest. In embarking on such a study, Yazdani treads a complex path as he works his way through existing scholarship, conceptual and empirical, to argue for the plurality of historical experience, in this case of modernity. Drawing from an impressive range of archival material and subjecting it to very critical scrutiny, what Yazdani does is to identify all those elements that are commonly understood to embody modernity, to attempt a periodization of modernity and to examine actual social and economic processes in the era of what he calls middle modernity (17th to 19th centuries). These processes contributed very definitively to a new register of experience and social transformation. What marks Yazdani’s work is both his contribution to a deeper understanding of transformation in Asia as well as his choice of methodology that moves away from earlier frames adopted by global and connected histories." – Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor of History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta "Kaveh Yazdani takes his reader on an epic global journey of re-discovery that plies an authentic passage to India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, shorn of all Eurocentric baggage. On the way over our passenger will be treated to the intriguing sights of a macro-global picture of the world, before disembarking to witness the detailed sights of Mysore and Gujarat, some of which has not been seen before, even by non-Eurocentric revisionists, and none of which to date has been brought together in so much vivid detail. With global and local history combined at its most impressive, this truly remarkable journey is worth every penny of the ticket price." – John M. Hobson, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield "My immediate reaction on reading Kaveh Yazdani’s work was unequivocal; monumental and definitive. Through a microscopic analysis of two regions in India, Gujarat and Mysore, Yazdani has deconstructed the complexity of the process of modernization and at the same time provided a new perspective to our understanding of the Great Divergence that took place between the West and the rest. This book is a must read for any historian working on modernity and the Great Divergence." – Sashi Sivramkrishna, Professor of Economics, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore "Framed by a discussion of the chronological and geographical bounds of modernity, and centering around a detailed analysis of developments in Mysore and Gujarat, Kaveh Yazdan’s new work is one of the most important recent Marxist studies of 17th and 18th century India. Transcending the false polarity offered by Eurocentric and Postcolonial perspectives, Yazdani takes seriously the possibilities for indigenous capitalist development in India, but provides a compelling account of the internal and external factors which combined to prevent it." – Neil Davidson, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow "Recent discussion about modernities and convergences seem to have focused mainly on China. This is why the present book on India and “convergence”, from which I have learned much, is topical and welcome." – Fredric Jameson, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University, Durham "Kaveh Yazdani has assembled an extraordinary range of materials on economic life in Mysore and Gujarat in the long eighteenth century. This wonderful book is essential reading for all those interested in global economic history and in the divergence debate." – Prasannan Parthasarathi, Professor of History, Boston College "Yazdani’s book represents a major contribution to the ‘the Great Divide’ debate. It brings India into a central role in global history, using it to link East and West. It also shifts focus from anachronistic national to contemporaneous regional levels of state and economy, posing new questions and finding some strikingly original answers. It is a ‘must-read’ for all those interested in global history." – David Washbrook, Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge "Yazdani has made a great addition to scholarship on the Great Divergence. His analysis of military, economic, technical, and political advances in Mysore and Gujarat – two of the most commercially advanced areas of 17th and 18th century India – sheds new light on the nature and complexity of the differences between contemporary Indian and European states. No analysis of the Great Divergence will be credible without taking Yazdani’s research, and Indian developments, into account." – Jack A. Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax "This is an extraordinarily impressive inquiry into European-Asian difference in the early modern period which is as erudite and meticulous as it is ambitious." – Victor Lieberman, Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Professor of History, University of Michigan "Yazdani’s book consists of an intriguing quantity and quality of empirical evidence, with which he is able to enlighten the reader with detailed information on the very similarities and differences between ‘middle modern’ India and Europe." – Susann Pham Thi (Bielefeld Graduate School In History and Sociology, Universität Bielefeld), in: HistLit 2017-4-088.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... xiii Problem of Quotation and Transliteration ... xvi List of Illustrations ... xvii List of Abbreviations ... xvii Glossary ... xx Maps ... xxvi Introduction ... 1 0.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 1 0.2) Purpose of Study ... 2 0.3) Unprinted Primary Sources 11 0.4) Orientalism ... 11 0.5) Eurocentrism ... 13 0.6) Methodology ... 14 0.7) Modes of Production ... 16 0.8) Modernity ... 22 0.9) ‘Simultaneity of the Non-Simultaneous’ ... 31 0.10) Modernity as a Historical Process and the Problem of Periodization ... 32 0.11) Prospect ... 61 1 The Transitional State of India’s History of Ideas, Science, Technology and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries ... 66 1.1) Introduction ... 66 1.2) Critical Thinking and Indo-Persian Curiosity vis-à-vis Europe ... 69 1.3) Late 18th Century Indo-Persian Preoccupation with the British Political System ... 79 1.4) Technology ... 84 1.5) Documents and Manuscripts ... 98 1.6) Science and Learning ... 100 1.7) Printing ... 105 1.8) Art, Culture and the Emergence of a ‘Public Sphere’ ... 107 1.9) King Serfoji II ... 111 1.10) Conclusion ... 112 2 Mysore ... 115 2.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 115 2.2) Economy ... 116 2.2.1) Introduction ... 116 2.2.2) Agriculture and Agrarian Social Relations ... 130 2.2.3) Living Conditions ... 165 2.2.4) Commerce and Mercantilism ... 170 2.2.5) Manufacture and Technology ... 184 2.2.6) Property Rights ... 212 2.3) Administration ... 220 2.3.1) Introduction ... 220 2.3.2) Tipu’s Administration ... 223 2.3.3) Revenues ... 227 2.3.4) Conclusion ... 229 2.4) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure ... 230 2.4.1) Conclusion ... 236 2.5) Military Establishment ... 239 2.5.1) Introduction ... 239 2.5.2) Cavalry ... 244 2.5.3) Infantry and Artillery ... 247 2.5.4) Rocket Technology ... 251 2.5.5) Fortification ... 255 2.5.6) Marine ... 256 2.5.7) Conclusion ... 272 2.6) Education ... 279 2.6.1) Conclusion ... 285 2.7) Foreign Relations and Semi-Modernization ... 285 2.7.1) Introduction ... 285 2.7.2) Missions to France and the Ottoman Empire ... 289 2.7.3) Afghanistan, Persia and the Conspiracies of European Powers ... 299 2.7.4) Conclusion ... 307 2.8) Political Structure – towards the Establishment of an Islamic Theocracy ... 308 2.8.1) Conclusion ... 334 2.9) Resistance and the British Invasion ... 336 2.9.1) Conclusion ... 349 2.10) General Conclusion ... 350 3 Gujarat ... 361 3.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 361 3.2) Economy ... 363 3.2.1) Introduction ... 363  3.2.2) Agriculture ... 380 3.2.3) Food, Housing, Consumption and Natural Calamities ... 391 3.2.4) Powerful Merchants and Commerce during the 17th and 18th Centuries ... 401 3.2.5) Manufacture and Technology ... 454 3.3) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure ... 476 3.3.1) Conclusion ... 480 3.4) The State, Property Rights and Commercial Rules and Regulations ... 481 3.4.1) Conclusion ... 492 3.5) Legal Practice – Civil and Criminal Penalties, Rules and Regulations ... 493 3.5.1) Conclusion ... 501 3.6) The Status of Women ... 502 3.6.1) Conclusion ... 510 3.7) The Impact of Caste and Religion ... 510 3.7.1) Conclusion ... 515 3.8) Education ... 515 3.8.1) Conclusion ... 521 3.9) Political Structure ... 522 3.9.1) General Structures of Power ... 522 3.9.2) Decentralization and the Difficulties of the Company’s Consolidation of Power ... 527 3.9.3) Independent Chieftains, Predation, Naval Warfare and Piracy ... 530 3.10) Early Impact of British Rule ... 545 3.10.1) Conclusion ... 552 3.11) General Conclusion ... 553 4 Epilogue – Transition from Middle to Late Modernity ... 557 Appendix ... 577 Bibliography ... 579 Index of Persons ... 646 Index of Places ... 653 Index of Subjects ... 656

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers an expansive survey of the role of single-sheet publishing in the European print industry during the first two centuries after the invention of printing. Drawing on new materials made available during the compilation of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, the twenty contributors explore the extraordinary range of broadsheet publishing and its contribution to government, pedagogy, religious devotion and entertainment culture. Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge both as a crucial communication medium and an essential underpinning of the economics of the publishing industry.Trade Review“This volume will be of great interest to researchers and professionals in history and archival and information science. – Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.” J.L. Newman, Hunter College, City University of New York. In: Choice, Vol. 55, No. 7 (March 2018). “This excellent volume demonstrates the value of collaborative, integrated, and wide-ranging work on broadsheets. It is not only an immensely valuable reference work in itself; it also points the way to further discoveries and new understandings of the multivalent role of this ubiquitous format in the future.” Elma Brenner, Angela McShane, and Julia Nurse, Wellcome Collection. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 276–277. “This volume represents an important and valuable addition to the study of the early modern broadsheet. [...] it will be a necessary accession for many research libraries and will be a key point of reference for individuals working in the field”. Kelsey Jackson Williams, University of Stirling. In: Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, No. 13 (2018).Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Andrew Pettegree, Single-sheet publishing in the first age of print: typology and topography 2. Flavia Bruni, Early Modern Broadsheets between Archives and Libraries: a Possible Integration? 2. Surveys 3. Alexander S. Wilkinson, Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo and Alba de la Cruz, Spanish Broadsheets: 1472-1700 4. Falk Eisermann, Fifty Thousand Veronicas. Print runs of broadsheets in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century 5. Drew Thomas, Reconstructing Wittenberg’s Broadsheet History 3. Official print 6. Flavia Bruni, In the name of God: governance, public order and theocracy in the broadsheets of the Stampa Camerale of Rome 7. Jamie Cumby, Bread and Fairs: Broadsheet Printing for the Municipality of Lyon, 1497-1570 8. Shanti Graheli, Collections of Italian Ordinance Broadsheets in Parisian Libraries c. 1500-1650 9. Nina Lamal, Merchants and broadsheets: the case of the van der Meulen family 10. Arthur der Weduwen, “Everyone has hereby been warned.” The Structure and Typography of Broadsheet Ordinances and the Communication of Governance in the Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic 4. Politics 11. Johan Verberckmoes & Violet Soen, Flying broadsheets. Broadsheets testing moderation in the nascent Dutch Revolt 12. Jan Hillgaertner, The King is Dead. German Broadsheets printed on the death of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles I 13. John Roger Paas, The German Political Broadsheet of the Seventeenth Century. Reflections on a malleable genre 5. Broadsheets in the Academic World 14. Richard Kirwan, Function in Form: single sheet items and the utility of cheap print in the early modern university 15. Malcolm Walsby, Cheap print and the academic market: The printing of dissertations in sixteenth-century Louvain 16. Saskia Limbach, Printing medical disputations in Basel: A compelling but competitive business 6. Broadsheets in the Marketplace 17. Amelie Roper, Music broadsheets of the German Reformation: Production, Performance and Persuasion 18. Alexandra Hill, The Lamentable Tale of Lost Ballads in London, 1557-1640 19. Abaigéal Warfield, Witchcraft illustrated: the crime of witchcraft in early modern German broadsheets 20. Graeme Kemp, Selling books by Broadsheet: A Sales Catalogue of Marie Flo Savreux, marchand-libraire

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Book SynopsisIn Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury: A Chemical History of Silver Refining in New Spain and Mexico, 16th to 19th Centuries, Saul Guerrero combines historical research with geology and chemistry to refute the current prevailing narrative of a primitive effort dominated by mercury and its copious emissions to the air. Based on quantitative historical data, visual records and geochemical fundamentals, Guerrero analyses the chemical and economic reasons why two refining processes had to share production, creating along the way major innovations in the chemical recipes, milling equipment, mercury recycling practice, and industrial architecture and operations. Their main environmental impact was lead fume and the depletion of woodlands from smelting, and the transformation of mercury into calomel during the patio process.Table of ContentsGeneral Series Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Guide to the text Introduction 1 The genesis and nature of silver ores  Why Spain?  To have and have not  Old World silver ores  New World silver ores  A red herring  The other chemical keys  The immoveable object and the unstoppable force  The table is set 2 The dry refining process: smelting of silver ores  Deceitful mercury  Smelting of silver ores: the human context  The chemistry of smelting and the nature of the ore  The architecture of smelting in New Spain  The infrastructure of smelting in New Spain  Plata de fuego (silver by fire) 3 The dry refining process: its impact on the environment  Lead: the nature of its consumption  Lead: the directionality of its loss  Lead: its source  Charcoal and the scale of depletion of woodland  The local environmental impact of smelting  A straightforward decision 4 The wet refining process: the chemistry of the patio process  Plus ça change  The alchemy of Mercury  The gold connection  The complex mechanism of a mercury-based refining process  The correspondencia: the key to the fate of mercury  The loss of calomel  The stages in the use of mercury to refine gold and silver ores  The twists in the trail  Mercury-based refining of silver ores: the human factor  Plata de azogue (silver by mercury) 5 The physical infrastructure of the patio process  The patio process  The architecture of the patio process  The environmental impact vectors of the patio process  A unique industrial effort 6 The Hacienda Santa María de Regla  The nineteenth century  The Adventurers in the Mines of Real del Monte  The Hacienda de Regla  Main process areas  The mass balance of the silver refining processes at Regla, 1872 to 1888 7 The patio process and smelting at Regla  The keys to an efficient patio process at Regla  The challenges of the smelting process at Regla  The efficiency of extracting silver at Regla  The labour force at Regla  The mass balance for the patio process at Regla  The mass balance for smelting at Regla  The environmental loss vectors in the period 1872 to 1888  A snapshot of a refining hacienda 8 The economies of refining silver  Roads to riches  Refining costs in New Spain, as reported  The refining costs at Regla  The false positives of the patio process  Silver in the context of other commodity trades  The bottom line 9 The environmental impact of silver refining: a shift of paradigm  The base line  An estimate of the breakdown of silver production by refining process by Caja  Aggregate totals for New Spain  Aggregate totals for Mexico, 1820 to 1900  Environmental impact vectors, sixteenth to nineteenth century  What did they know and when did they know it?  Was mercury the indispensable key to silver in the New World? Epilogue Appendix A: The accounting books of Regla Appendix B: Sensitivity matrix for refining costs Appendix C: Estimates of silver production by Caja and refining process, including balance of mercury consumption and physical losses Glossary of technical terms in Spanish Archival sources Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early twentieth-century Luxembourg. The individual chapters focus on how industrialists addressed a large array of challenges related to industrialization, borrowing and mixing ideas originating in domains such as corporate identity formation, mediatization, scientification, technological innovation, mechanization, capitalism, mass production, medicalization, educationalization, artistic production, and social utopia, while competing with other interest groups who pursued their own goals. The book looks at different focus areas of modernity, and analyzes how humans created, mediated, and interacted with the technospheres of modern societies. Contributors: Klaus Dittrich, Irma Hadzalic, Frederik Herman, Enric Novella, Ira Plein, Françoise Poos, Karin Priem, and Angelo Van Gorp.Table of Contents Acknowledgments  List of Figures  List of Abbreviations  Notes on Contributors  Illustration Credits  Introduction  Karin Priem and Frederik Herman Part 1: Modeling Subjectivities 1 Machines, Masses, and Metaphors: The Visual Making of Industrial Work(ers) in Interwar Luxembourg  Ira Plein 2 Photography as a Space for Constructing Subjectivities: Luxembourg’s Steel Dynasties and the Modern Workforce As Seen Through the Glass Plate Negatives from the Institut Emile Metz  Françoise Poos 3 Buddhism, Business, and Red-Cross Diplomacy: Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert’s Journeys to East Asia in the Interwar Period  Klaus Dittrich Part 2: Mapping Bodies and Senses 4 “Sensuous Geographies” in the “Age of Steel”: Educating Future Workers’ Bodies in Time and Space (1900–1940)  Karin Priem and Frederik Herman 5 The Eye of the Machine: Labor Sciences and the Mechanical Registration of the Human Body  Frederik Herman and Karin Priem Part 3: Engineering Social Change 6 Germs, Bodies, and Selves: Tuberculosis, Social Government, and the Promotion of Health-Conscious Behavior in the Early Twentieth Century  Enric Novella 7 Transatlantic Iron Connections: Education, Emotion, and the Making of a Productive Workforce in Minas Gerais, Brazil (ca. 1910–1960)  Irma Hadzalic 8 Requiem for Gary: Cultivating Wasteland in and beyond the “Age of Steel”  Angelo Van Gorp  Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Peregrine Profession Per-Olof Grönberg offers an account of the pre-1930 transnational mobility of engineers and architects educated in the Nordic countries 1880-1919. Outlining a system where learning mobility was more important than labour market mobility, the author shows that more than every second graduate went abroad. Transnational mobility was stronger from Finland and Norway than from Denmark and Sweden, partly because of slower industrialisation and deficiencies in the domestic technical education. This mobility included all parts of the world but concentrated on the leading industrial countries in German speaking Europe and North America. Significant majorities returned and became agents of technology transfer and technical change. Thereby, these mobile graduates also became important for Nordic industrialisation

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Book SynopsisIn the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s in Istanbul, which, in the contemporary words of one of the country’s most prominent contemporary Marxist theorists, became “the secret to and the basis of Turkish capitalism" in the 1930s.Trade Review"Görkem Akgöz has written an important and original book. Not only is the subject new, so is the methodology used. She explores new paths and she does so convincingly. In the Shadow of War and Empire is undoubtedly a landmark in the social historiography of the Global South." – Professor Marcel van der Linden, Institute of Social History, Amsterdam "Görkem Akgöz has produced a study that will be of interest far beyond the ranks of historians of Turkey – those interested in labour, gender, state formation, citizenship, and ideology will find much of value here. Deeply researched, beautifully written, and insightful at virtually every turn, this is a book destined to become a classic." – Professor Rick Halpern, University of Toronto "Görkem Akgöz takes Turkish and global labour history an important step further by successfully connecting a macro perspective of the long-term history of state building and industrialization to an inclusive microhistory of all the workers involved. Truly a tour de force." – Aad Blok, Executive Editor of the International Review of Social History

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Book SynopsisFor over a century now, historians have debated the causes of the lagged industrialization of the Dutch economy during the nineteenth century. To this debate, Trials of Convergence brings the analytical perspective of prices, factor costs and the functioning of markets. Its critical insight is that only an approach based on the integrated incentive structure of the economy allows us to delimit the role of alternative explanations. Using statistical reconstruction and microdata, it shows that the retarded transition resulted from a confluence of forces. These ranged from open economy effects and natural endowments to the resilient influence of the institutions of the former Dutch Republic and the fiscal policy adopted in response to Belgian secession. At the height of the British Industrial Revolution the Dutch economy slowed, triggering a return to the problems of eighteenth-century stagnation. All this meant that the transition to 'modern economic growth' after 1860 came about only in a changed international context and after a period of politico-economic reform.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Outline Chronology Note on Methodology and the Database 1 Introduction  1 Accounting for Dutch Nineteenth Century Development  2 The Debate: from Backwardness to Balanced Growth  3 Prices, Markets and Industrialization  4 The Structure of This Book 2 Dutch Prices and Growth Across Industrialization  1 The Post-Napoleonic Perspective  2 The Legacy of the Republic  3 A Broad View of Nineteenth Century Prices  4 Prices as Deflators: The Chronology of Growth and Trade  5 Structural Change and the Pattern of Development 3 Prices and Structural Response in Agriculture  1 The Issues: Agriculture and Industrialization  2 The Context: The Historiography of Agricultural Development  3 Prices as Deflators: The Outline of Agricultural Growth  4 Factor Inputs and Productivity Growth  5 Agricultural Output Prices Reconsidered  6 Input Prices and Factor Costs  7 Composite Costs and Structural Response   Annex 3 Supplementing agricultural labor force estimates 4 Prices and Industrial Development  1 Shifting Perceptions of Industrial Growth  2 Capturing the Debate  3 Prices as Deflators: The Outline of Industrial Growth  4 A Sectoral View of Industrial Development   4.1 1813–1830: Postwar Recovery   4.2 1830–1860: Stimulation and Slowdown 4.3 1860–1913: Three Phases of Growth  5 Sources of Industrial Growth  6 Output Prices and Input Costs   6.1 Output Prices   6.2 Input Costs  7 Factor Costs and the Dualistic Transition   Annex 4 Supplementing nonagricultural labor force estimates 5 Comparative Costs and Domestic Integration  1 The Comparative Cost Hypothesis  2 Domestic Integration and Retarded Growth  3 How Wide Were International Price Gaps?  4 Industrial Inputs and Domestic Integration 6 Wage Gaps and the Labor Market Equilibrium  1 The Labor Market Debate: Data and Issues  2 Regional and Comparative Wage Gaps  3 Dualism and the Labor Market Equilibrium   3.1 Measuring Shifts in Labor Demand   3.2 Natural Increase and Disamenities: Urban and Rural Demographics   3.3 Migration and the Dynamics of Labor Supply  4 Wage Gaps, Poor Relief and the Urban Crisis 7 Prices, Markets and Fiscal Policy  1 The Dutch Debt Overhang and Economic Retardation  2 The Post-Napoleonic Sustainability Trap  3 Capital Markets: Public Debt and Crowding-out   3.1 Openness and Early Intermediation   3.2 Rates of Interest and the Public Debt   3.3 Searching for Crowding-out Effects  4 Taxation and Consumer Demand  5 Industrialization and the Fuel Excise  6 Regulation, Market Integration and Production  7 Dutch Retardation as a Confluence of Forces   Annex 7.1 The Effective Excise on Coal and Peat   Annex 7.2 The Estimated Consumption Function for Coal 8 The Mechanisms of Post-1860 Growth  1 Faster Growth in a Changing World  2 Macroeconomic Development  3 Sectoral Dynamics   3.1 Growth and Spillovers in Services   3.2 Industrial Slowdown and Resurgence  4 Structural Change in Investment   4.1 Outcomes: the Growth and Structure of Investment   4.2 Finance and the Evolution of the Capital Market   4.3 Accounting for Nonresidential Investment  5 The Role of Foreign Trade  6 Real Wages and Household Consumption   6.1 Real Wages and Living Standards   6.2 Household Expenditure and Propensities of Demand  7 From Industrial Catch-up to Diversified Growth Conclusion Sources and References Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, the home as a workplace became a widely discussed topic. However, for almost 300 million workers around the world, paid work from home was not news. Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) includes contributions from scholars, activists and artists addressing the past and present conditions of home-based work. They discuss the institutional and legal histories of regulations for these workers, their modes of organization and resistance, as well as providing new insights on contemporary home-based work in both traditional and developing sectors. Contributors are: Jane Barrett, Janine Berg, Eloisa Betti, Chris Bonner, Eileen Boris, Patricia Coñoman Carrilo, Janhavi Dave, Saniye Dedeoğlu, Laura K Ekholm, Jenna Harvey, Frida Hållander, K. Kalpana, Srabani Maitra, Indrani Mazumdar, Gabriela Mitidieri, Silke Neunsinger, Malin Nilsson, Narumol Nirathron, Åsa Norman, Leda Papastefanaki, Archana Prasad, Maria Tamboukou, Nina Trige Andersen, and Marlese von Broembsen.

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Book Synopsis'The Potteries' is the name given to the industrial area in the English Midlands that was home to hundreds of pottery-making companies. This title presents an introduction to the industrial history of the Potteries, its major firms and the men and women who produced pottery for Britain and the world.

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Book SynopsisHow do you cope with the loss of centuries of working tradition? These are the stories of the people who worked through this evolution, watched their town change around them and become a city – the people who saw the end of one era and the beginning of a bright new one.

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Book SynopsisSeveral generations have now passed since iron making and working was an important trade in the Black Country. It was started by itinerant bloomers, who moved their bloomeries around the district to make use of local supplies of ore, smelting it with charcoal made from forest wood. Water-powered bloomeries were eventually replaced by blast furnaces, which in turn were replaced by coke-fired smelting furnaces. Black Country ironmasters had their share of success and failure, profits and loss, wealth and bankruptcy. Such is the nature of the trade that supply and demand created periods of expansion and then through over production an inevitable slump. Political factors also had influence. Wars created increased demand for iron for ordnance. When the battles were over and the wars won or lost, the bigger losers were the ironmasters and their workforce. However matters changed through the mid-nineteenth century, during the reign of Queen Victoria, when innovation and invention reached new heights.

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