Giorgio Riello is Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick, UK. He has authored or edited several books on the history of early modern Europe and Asia, including The Spinning World (2009); How India Clothed the World (with T. Roy, 2009); Writing Material Culture History (2014); and Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2013).Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics, UK. He has published extensively on the economic history of modern South Asia, and is the author of India in the World Economy from Antiquity to the Present (2012); The Economic History of India 1857-1947 (2012); and An Economic History of Early Modern India (2013).

• List of TablesList of FiguresList of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction: Global Economic History, 1500-2000 Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, UK) and Tirthankar Roy (London School of Economics, UK) PART I: DIVERGENCE AND CAPITALISM IN GLOBAL HISTORY1. The Great Divergence Debate Prasannan Parthasarathi (Boston College, USA) and Kenneth Pomeranz (University of Chicago, USA)2. Data and Dating the Great Divergence Jack A. Goldstone (George Mason University, USA)3. Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Europe and China Patrick O'Brien (University of Oxford, UK)4. Toolkits, Creativity and Divergences: Technology in Global History Karel Davids (VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands)5. Families, Firms and Polities: Pre-modern Institution, Economic Growth and the Great Divergence Regina Grafe (European University Institute, Italy) and Maarten Prak (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)6. Plantations and the Great Divergence Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne, Australia)7. Consumption and Global History in the Early Modern Period Maxine Berg (University of Warwick, UK)8. From the Great Divergence to New Histories of Capitalism, Andrew B. Liu (Villanova University, USA)PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF A WORLD ECONOMY9. Trade and the Emergence of the World Economy, 1500-2000 Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, UK) and Tirthankar Roy (London School of Economics, UK)10. The Environment and the World Economy since 1500, John McNeill (Georgetown University, USA)11. Labour Regimes and Labour Mobility from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century, Alessandro Stanziani (EHESS Paris, France)12. Colonialism and Economic Change in Asia and Africa, Leigh Gardner (London School of Economics, UK)13. Varieties of Industrialization: An Asian Regional Perspective, Kaoru Sugihara (Kyoto University, Japan)14. Global Commodities and Commodity Chains, Bernd-Stefan Grewe (University of Tübingen, Germany)15. The Rise of Global Finance, 1850-2000, Youssef Cassis (EUI Florence, Italy)PART III: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES TO GLOBAL ECONOMIC CHANGE16. Africa: Economic Change South of the Sahara since c. 1500 Gareth Austin (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland)17. Trade and Development in the Middle East 1500-1914, Laura Panza (University of Melbourne, Australia)18. The New World Silver and the Making of a Global Economy, Alejandra Irigoin (London School of Economics, UK)19. Business, Technology, and the American Economy, c. 1800-2000, Regina Lee Blaszczyk (University of Leeds, UK)20. Economic Change in East Asia from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century Debin Ma (London School of Economics, UK)21. Europe and the World, 1500-2000 Peer Vries (University of Vienna, Austria)22. South Asia in the World Economy Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick, UK)23. Changing Destinies in the Economy of Southeast Asia J. Thomas Lindblad (Leiden University, the Netherlands)GlossaryBibliographyIndex

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