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Consumption and craftsmanship in colonial India 1850-1950
No full textThis volume examines new ways of conceptualizing consumption historically in South Asia through a series of case studies on different commodities and consuming groups. It argues that notwithstanding the widespread character of poverty and the absence of a mass consumer society, consumption practices and attitudes about consumption have been critical factors in the constitution of South Asian society, culture, and economy since the late eighteenth century. The introduction examines patterns and trends; outlines the subject and arguments; and points to ways in which the collection challenges and enriches existing understandings of the subcontinent and its past
Book review: economic reforms: the next step
No full textAuthor reviews: Reforming India’s External, Financial and Fiscal Policies edited by Anne O Krueger and Sajjid Z Chinoy; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2004; pp xvi + 248, Rs 595
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Global economic history (2nd edition)
No full textPublished online: 05 September 2024Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions from leading scholars around the world, it delves into the economic histories of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas from the 16th to the 20th centuries. From the environment to The Great Divergence, finance, consumption, trade, industrialisation, commodities and labour regimes, it demonstrates the global nature of economic history, and highlights how indispensable it is and has been. Updated throughout, this new edition boasts an expanded introduction and four new chapters on capitalism and political economy, European empires and colonialism, North Africa and the Middle East, and the North American Economy. A comprehensive introduction to global economic history, this textbook provides students with a confident grasp of the field, its key debates and essential issues.-- Global Economic Change in History, an introduction -- PART 1 DIVERGENCE AND CAPITALISM IN GLOBAL HISTORY -- 1 The Great Divergence Debate -- 2 Data and Dating the Great Divergence -- 3 Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Europe and China -- 4 Toolkits, Creativity and Divergences: Technology in Global History -- 5 Families, Firms and Polities: Institutions, Pre-modern Economic Growth and the Great Divergence -- 6 Plantations and the Great Divergence -- 7 Consumption and Global History in the Early Modern Period -- 8 From the Great Divergence to New Histories of Capitalism -- PART 2 THE EMERGENCE OF A WORLD ECONOMY -- 9 Trade and the Emergence of a World Economy, 1500–2000 -- 10 The Environment and the World Economy since 1500 -- 11 Labour Regimes and Labour Mobility from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- 12 Colonialism and Economic Change in Asia and Africa -- 13 Varieties of Industrialization: An Asian Regional Perspective -- 14 Global Commodities and Commodity Chains -- 15 The Rise of Global Finance, 1850–2000 -- PART 3 REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES TO GLOBAL ECONOMIC CHANGE -- 16 Africa: Economic Change South of the Sahara since c.1500 -- 17 Trade and Development in the Middle East, 1500–1914 -- 18 The New World Silver and the Making of a Global Economy -- 19 Business, Technology and the American Economy, c.1800–2000 -- 20 Economic Change in East Asia from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century -- 21 Europe in the World, 1500–2000 -- 22 South Asia in the World Economy, 1600–1950 -- 23 Changing Destinies in the Economy of Southeast Asi
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