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A History of The Global Economy

This document contains the table of contents for a book titled "A History of the Global Economy". The book is divided into seven parts covering various topics in the history of the global economy from prehistoric times to modern times. Part I provides an introduction. Parts II-IV cover the beginnings and rise of agrarian civilizations. Part V examines the role of trade in modern economic development. Parts VI-VII discuss the emergence of the modern economy and current state of economic development.

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A History of The Global Economy

This document contains the table of contents for a book titled "A History of the Global Economy". The book is divided into seven parts covering various topics in the history of the global economy from prehistoric times to modern times. Part I provides an introduction. Parts II-IV cover the beginnings and rise of agrarian civilizations. Part V examines the role of trade in modern economic development. Parts VI-VII discuss the emergence of the modern economy and current state of economic development.

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Contents

List of tables vii


Preface ix

PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Finding a common economic pathway 10


2 Transitions and revolutions 22

PART II BEGINNINGS: PLACE AND PEOPLE

3 Changing contexts 44
4 The past within us 59
5 The dynamic forager 75

PART III THE AGRICULTURAL PHASE, FROM 15 000 BC TO AD 1800

6 Asking the wrong questions 97


7 The Agricultural Revolution: 15 000 to 1 BC 110
8 Innovativeness in agrarian civilisations: 15 000 BC to AD 1800 128

PART IV EMPIRES AND THE RISE OF AGRARIAN CIVILISATIONS

9 The emergence of complex political organisation 154


10 First civilisations 172
11 The rise of an eastern agrarian civilisation: China 189
12 Imperialism moves westward 206
13 Imperial structures and their finite lifetimes 224
14 A natural experiment: the Americas 239

PART V COMMERCE AS AN ENABLER OF MODERN ECONOMIC


DEVELOPMENT

15 The building of a global world: trade systems before 1500 265


16 The circle completed: 1500–1800 282

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vi A history of the global economy

17 The integration of the global economy: 1700–1900 300


18 Creative innovativeness in full bloom 320

PART VI THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN ECONOMY

19 The inception of modern economic development 339


20 Stage one: the Industrial Revolution in Britain 355
21 More industrial revolutions 375
22 The Asian miracle? 394

PART VII WHERE ARE WE AT?

23 Stage two of modern economic development: the Service Revolution 421


24 Looking backwards in order to peer forwards 435

Bibliography 459
Index 481

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