Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialized from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than different, both char...(展开全部)

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than different, both chara...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Colley (Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837) brilliantly marshals an array of captivity narratives by everyday Britons captured by foreign powers to show the dizzying ethnic and cultural complexity of empire. She considers four zones of the British Empire-the Mediterranean, North America, India and Afghanistan-between the years 1600 and 1850. For reaso...(展开全部)

▌[瑞士] 罗曼·施图德 Roman Studer . 曾先后供职于学术机构和私营企业，现为瑞银集团瑞士政府事务部主管。曾任牛津大学博士后研究员、伦敦经济学院讲师。博士论文获2009年度美国经济史学会“格申克龙奖”，这是授予国际经济史年度最佳论文的奖项。曾任苏黎世大学瑞银社会经济学研究中心首席运营官。 .

▌[瑞士] 罗曼·施图德 Roman Studer . 曾先后供职于学术机构和私营企业，现为瑞银集团瑞士政府事务部主管。曾任牛津大学博士后研究员、伦敦经济学院讲师。博士论文获2009年度美国经济史学会“格申克龙奖”，这是授予国际经济史年度最佳论文的奖项。曾任苏黎世大学瑞银社会经济学研究中心首席运营官。 .

▌[瑞士] 罗曼·施图德 Roman Studer . 曾先后供职于学术机构和私营企业，现为瑞银集团瑞士政府事务部主管。曾任牛津大学博士后研究员、伦敦经济学院讲师。博士论文获2009年度美国经济史学会“格申克龙奖”，这是授予国际经济史年度最佳论文的奖项。曾任苏黎世大学瑞银社会经济学研究中心首席运营官。 .

▌[瑞士] 罗曼·施图德 Roman Studer . 曾先后供职于学术机构和私营企业，现为瑞银集团瑞士政府事务部主管。曾任牛津大学博士后研究员、伦敦经济学院讲师。博士论文获2009年度美国经济史学会“格申克龙奖”，这是授予国际经济史年度最佳论文的奖项。曾任苏黎世大学瑞银社会经济学研究中心首席运营官。 .

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn't these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional responses--suc...(展开全部)

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn't these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional responses--suc...(展开全部)