HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Malthusian Catastrophe, Mughal Empire, Wage Labour
13 Nov 2020
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The california school and beyond: how to study the great divergence peer vries. 731: china, uk and nl as at the even of great divergence richest countries. The california school: california school rewrote the economic history of china, rise of the west in spite of dominance of the world by asia and middle east until about 1500. Ce economy wise: europe did mostly not catch up until 1800, rise of the west mostly relied on inventions from outside of europe and was recent and sudden and might just be temporary, california school diverse. China as the center of an early modern economy: california school gives china central place in world economic history, reasons, china had one third of world population by 2nd half of 18th century: probably biggest economy. Innovations: well working commodity market, highly developed, proto-industrial activities developed, property and property rights, fundamental: both uk and china as malthusian countries that depended on land.
