| Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence: Intercontinental Trade and Living Standards in the Dutch East India Company's Commerci Contributor(s): de Zwart (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004299653 ISBN-13: 9789004299658 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $152.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic History - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions - History | Asia - General |
| Dewey: 330.91 |
| Series: Global Economic History |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (1.20 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence Pim de Zwart examines the Dutch East India Company's intercontinental trade and its effects on living standards in various regions on the edges of the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contrary to conventional views, De Zwart finds significant evidence of the integration of global commodity markets, an important dimension of globalization, before the 1800s. The effects of this globalization, and the associated colonialism, were diverse and could vary between and within regions. As globalization and colonialism affected patterns of economic development across the globe they played a part in the rise of global economic inequality, known as the 'Great Divergence', in the early modern period. |