Literature:
The obligatory literature consists of approximately 1000 pages and is made up of a combination of articles and books. Students may choose between different combinations – this will be discussed at the first seminar.
Articles marked with a star exists as master copies and may be borrowed from the administration at Niels Nenrik Abels hus.
Berg, Maxine, ‘From imitation to invention: creating commodities in eighteenth century Britain’, Economic History Review, vol LV, no 1, February 2002, pp. 1-30 (30 pp). Download article Or: Berg, Maxine, “In Pursuit of Luxury: Global History and British Consumer Goods in the Eighteenth Century”, Past & Present, 182, February 2002, pp. 85-143 (40 pp)Download article
Frank, Andre Gunder, Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian Age, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1998. (360 pp) Especially chapters 2, 4, 6, and 7. (c. 220 pp)
Goody, Jack, The East in the West, Cambridge, 1966. Especially Introduction and chpts. 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, and the appendix (170 pp)
* Jacob, Margaret, “The Cultural Foundation of Early Industrialization: A Project”, in Maxine Berg and Kristine Bruland (eds), Technological Revolutions in Europe. Historical Perspectives, Cheltenham UK; Northampton, MA, USA, 1998, pp 67-86. (13pp) or “Ch.5 The Cultural Origins of the First Industrial Revolution”, in The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution, 1988. (master copy available)
* Landes, David, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Why Some are so Rich and Some So Poor, London, 1998. pp. 30-59, pp. 200-221 (41 pp)
Landes, David, “Why Europe and the West? Why notChina?”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 20, spring 2006, pp. 3-22. (19 pp). Download article
Lin, Justin Yifu, “The Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did Not Originate in China”, The University of Chicago. 1995. (20pp) Download article
Marks, Robert B., The Origins of the Modern World. A Global and Ecological Narrative, London, New York, 2002. (160 pp)
Mokyr, J (2005), “Long term economic growth and the history of technology”, in Aghion, P. and Durlauf, S, Handbook of Economic Growth (Dordrecht, Elsevier). (58 pp)Download article
* Mokyr, Joel, “The European Enlightenment and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth”, in J.Horn, L.N.Rosenband, M.Roe Smith (eds) Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution, Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England, 2010, p.65-87. (15pp).
O`Brien, Patrick, “Historiographical Traditions and Modern Imperatives for the Restoration of Global History”, Journal of global History, 1:1, 2006, pp 3-39 (36 pp) Download article
O’Brien, Patrick K., “European Economic Development: the Contribution by the Periphery”, Economic History Review, 2nd series, 35, 1982, pp 1-18. (17 pp) Download article or Patrick K. O’Brien and Leandro Prados de la Escosura, ‘The costs and benefits of European imperialism from the conquest of Ceuta 1415 to the Treaty of Lusaka 1974’, Revista de Historia Economica XVI, 1 (1998) 29-89. 60 pp. Download article
Pomeranz, Kenneth, The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Princeton, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. pp 1-68 (67 pp)
Pomeranz, Kenneth and Topik, Steven, The World that Trade Created. Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the present, M.E.Sharpe, Armonk, New York, London, England, 2006. Chpts 1, 2 and 7 (105 pp)
* Parthasarathi, Prasannan, “Trade and Industry in the Indian Subcontinent, 1750-1913” in J.Horn, L.N.Rosenband, M.Roe Smith (eds) Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution, Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England, 2010, pp. 271-290. (17pp)
* Rosenberg, N. and Birdzell, L. (1986), How the West grew Rich. The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World (New York: Basic Books), pp 3-36 (33 pp)
Vries, Peer, ‘Are coal and colonies really crucial? Kenneth Pomeranz and the great divergence’, Journal of World History 12 (2001) 407-446. (38 pp) Download article
Vries, Peer, “Should we really ReOrient?”, Itinerario. European Journal of Overseas History, 22 (3), 19-38 (review article) (18 pp).
Read and/or listen to two debates:
(1) Gunder Frank and David Landes (1998) Download article
(2) Joel Mokyr and Bob Allen (2000) Download article