Economic historians identify labor-intensive industrialization as a core theme of global economic history, and set out a coherent account of a debate they have been developing in various
international conferences over the past 15 years. They explore such topics as an interpretation of East Asian experiences, the industrious revolutions in East and West, colonial India, late
imperial patterns and their modern fates in China’s rural Yangzi Delta, from peasant economy to urban agglomeration in modern Japan, government promotion in Indonesia 1930-75, manufacturing in
West Africa 1450-2000, colonial industry and modern manufacturing in Latin America from around 1800 to the 1940s, and 19th-century Alsace. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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