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Berg, Maxine (2018) Global history and the transformation of early modern Europe. In: Arnold, John H. and Hilton, Matthew J. and Rüger, Jan, (eds.) History after Hobsbawm : writing the past in the 21st century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (In Press)
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Abstract
The industrial revolution was not only about the conditions of supply in the west. It was also about the development of global trading systems that positioned the west as a nodal point in a global exchange of goods and materials. Drawing upon new research into the European East India trading companies undertaken as part of the ‘Europe’s Asian Centuries’ project, this paper makes a clear case for the significance of trade with Asia to the development of the European economies. The chapter examines critically the historiography on the world and the industrial revolution: it contrasts the fairly expansive view that Hobsbawm gave to the industrial revolution, then the turning inwards to Europe only (Landes) and Britain only (Wrigley etc.), before turning out again in recent approaches. By emphasising the interconnectedness of economic development it raises significant questions about how all scholars should approach the global nature of the modern capitalist economy.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Industrial revolution -- Historiography, Economic development -- Europe -- Asia, Hobsbawm, Eric John, 1917-2012 -- Influence, International trade | ||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | ||||
| Book Title: | History after Hobsbawm : writing the past in the 21st century | ||||
| Editor: | Arnold, John H. and Hilton, Matthew J. and Rüger, Jan | ||||
| Official Date: | 2018 | ||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 March 2017 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||
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