| Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850 Contributor(s): Unger, Richard W. |
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ISBN: 9004194398 ISBN-13: 9789004194397 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $202.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation - Business & Economics | Economic History - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 387.544 |
| LCCN: 2010049575 |
| Series: Global Economic History |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.6" W x 9.7" (2.00 lbs) 484 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In sixteen essays authors explore the dramatic rise in the efficiency of European shipping in the three centuries before the Industrial Revolution. They offer reasons for the greater success of the sector than any other in making better use of labor. They describe the roots - political, organizational, technological, ecological, human - of rising productivity, treating those sources both theoretically and empirically. Comparisons with China show why Europeans came to dominate Asian waters. Building on past research, the volume is a statement of what is known about that critical sector of the early modern European economy and indicates the contribution shipping made to the emergence of the West as the dominant force on the oceans of the world. |