HIST115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Siltation, Great Divergence, Hai River
20 Nov 2016
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Lecture 14 unfair treaties and the opium wars. In terms of world manufacturing output, europe overtakes china in. 1815 and around 1830 they begin to separate radically. By 1880 there is a large gap between europe and china, as well as india, known as the. Frank (reorient: global economy in the asian age, p. 277), says that the west rose by attaching itself to the asian "train". The first was new world silver, allowing them to trade with the east. The second was the slave trade, giving them a market to sell indian textiles to africans while protecting european producers. This led to third step, the use of cheap slave labour to generate profits from plantation industries. The fourth step was that europe was not flooded with overseas goods like west africa, the barriers put up prevented the retardation of european industry.
