TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vries,P.H.H.
AU  - Vries,Annelieke
TI  - Atlas of material life: Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th century 
SN  - 9400603924
AV  - GN406 .A853 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Leiden University Press
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Europe, Western
KW  - History
KW  - East Asia
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - Large-scale comparative economic history of westernmost and easternmost Eurasia is of importance for the understanding of global history. The book provides a description of material life in North-western Europe and East Asia, for the period from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, with a focus on developments in Great Britain and the Dutch Republic on the one hand and China and Japan on the other hand. Like an atlas it provides information, in an accessible format, on the main characteristics of the economic landscape of this period. Maps, tables, graphs and figures are a prominent and integral part of the book. It shows the constraints to which all pre-industrial economies were subjected because of their dependence on organic natural resources but also the different ways in which the societies discussed dealt with those constraints. To provide a better understanding of this economy of limited possibilities, the final chapter of the book is devoted to the emergence of modern economic growth in Western Europe
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