Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xxi
5. Introduction
6. Comparisons, Connections, and Narratives of European Economic Development 3
7. Variations on the Europe-Centered Story: Demography, Ecology, and Accumulation 10
8. Other Europe-Centered Stories: Markets, Firms, and Institutions 14
9. Problems with the Europe-Centered Stories 16
10. Building a More Inclusive Story 17
11. Comparisons, Connections, and the Structure of the Argument 24
12. A Note on Geographic Coverage 25
13. Part one: A world of surprising resemblances
14. ONE Europe before Asia? Population, Capital Accumulation, and Technology in Explanations of European Development 31
15. TWO MARKET ECONOMIES IN EUROPE AND ASIA 69
16. Part two: from new ethos to new economy? consumption, investment and capitalism
17. Introduction 111
18. Three: Luxury Consumption and the Rise of Capitalism 114
19. Four: Visible Hands: Firm Structure, Sociopolitical Structure, and “Capitalism” in Europe and Asia 166
20. Part three: beyond Smith and Malthus: from ecological constrains to sustained industrial growth
21. Five: Shared Constraints: Ecological Strain in Western Europe and East Asia 211
22. Six: Abolishing the Land Constraint: The Americas as a New Kind of Periphery 264
23. Appendixes
24. A: Comparative Estimates of Land Transport Capacity per Person: Germany and North India, circa 1800 301
25. B: Estimates of Manure Applied to North China and European Farms in the Late Eighteenth Century, and a Comparison of Resulting Nitrogen Fluxes 303
26. C: Forest Cover and Fuel-Supply Estimates for France, Lingnan, and a Portion of North China, 1700–1850 307
27. D: Estimates of “Ghost Acreage” Provided by Various Imports to Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain 313
28. E: Estimates of Earning Power of Rural Textile Workers in the Lower Yangzi Region of China, 1750–1840 316
29. F: Estimates of Cotton and Silk Production, Lower Yangzi and China as a Whole, 1750 and Later—With Comparisons to United Kingdom, France, and Germany 327
30. Bibliography 339
31. Index 373