The European miracle : environments, economies, and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia

"Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every study of industrialization and economic development. In this analytical and comparative work Eric Jones sees the economic condition forming where natural environments and political systems meet: Europe's economic rise is explained as a favoured interaction between them, contrasting with the frustrating pattern of their interplay in the Ottoman empire, India and China. For the third edition Professor Jones has added a new Preface and Afterword." / Produktinformation 01.0_pp_i_vi_Frontmatter 02.0_pp_vii_viii_Contents 03.0_pp_ix_xii_Preface_to_the_third_edition 04.0_pp_xiii_xvi_Preface_and_acknowledgements 05.0_pp_xvii_xxxix_Introduction_to_the_second_edition 06.0_pp_xl_xlii_Map 07.0_pp_1_2_EURASIA 07.1_pp_3_21_Environmental_and_social_conjectures 07.2_pp_22_42_Disasters_and_capital_accumulation 08.0_pp_43_44_EUROPE 08.1_pp_45_69_Technological_drift 08.2_pp_70_84_The_Discoveries_and_ghost_acreage 08.3_pp_85_103_The_market_economy 08.4_pp_104_126_The_states_system 08.5_pp_127_150_Nation-states 09.0_pp_151_152_THE_WORLD 09.1_pp_153_172_Beyond_Europe 10.0_pp_173_174_ASIA 10.1_pp_175_191_Islam_and_the_Ottoman_Empire 10.2_pp_192_201_India_and_the_Mughal_Empire 10.3_pp_202_222_China_and_the_Ming_and_Manchu_Empires 11.0_pp_223_224_EURASIA 11.1_pp_225_238_Summary_and_comparison 12.0_pp_239_260_Afterword_to_the_third_edition 13.0_pp_261_273_Annotated_bibliographical_guide_to_Eurasian_economic_history_in_the_very_long_term 14.0_pp_274_293_Bibliography 15.0_pp_294_296_Supplementary_bibliographical_guide 16.0_pp_297_301_Index Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every study of industrialization and economic development. In his analytical and comparative work Eric Jones sees the economic condition forming where natural environments and political systems meet: Europe's economic rise is explained as a favored interaction between them, contrasting with the frustrating pattern of their interplay in the Ottoman empire, India and China. A new preface and afterword have been added for the third edition. Previous Edition Hb (1987): 0-521-33449-7 Previous Edition Pb (1987): 0-521-33670-8 EUROPE did not spend the gifts of its environment 'as rapidly as it got them in a mere insensate multiplication of the common life'.

Why modern states and economies developed in Europe first, and later in India and China.