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Global crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth centuryByGeoffrey Parker. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxii + 871. 28 colour illustrations, 55 figures. Hardback £29.99, ISBN978-0-300-15323-1; paperback £16.99, ISBN 978-0-300-20863-4.

Escaping poverty: the origins of modern economic growthByPeer Vries. Vienna: Vienna University Press, 2013. Pp. 516. Paperback €59.99, ISBN978-3-8471-0168-0.

Labour-intensive industrialization in global historyEdited byGareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. xiv + 310. 13 b/w illustrations. Hardback £95.00, ISBN978-0-415-45552-7; paperback £37.99, ISBN 978-1-13-890114-8.

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Information: Journal of Global History , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 135 - 146

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022815000388 [Opens in a new window]
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1 Bin Wong, R., China transformed: historical change and the limits of European experience, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997, pp. 127–152Google Scholar.

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The early modern foundations of the modern world: recent works on patterns of economic and political change - Global crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth centuryByGeoffrey Parker. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxii + 871. 28 colour illustrations, 55 figures. Hardback £29.99, ISBN978-0-300-15323-1; paperback £16.99, ISBN 978-0-300-20863-4. - Escaping poverty: the origins of modern economic growthByPeer Vries. Vienna: Vienna University Press, 2013. Pp. 516. Paperback €59.99, ISBN978-3-8471-0168-0. - Labour-intensive industrialization in global historyEdited byGareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. xiv + 310. 13 b/w illustrations. Hardback £95.00, ISBN978-0-415-45552-7; paperback £37.99, ISBN 978-1-13-890114-8. - China on the sea: how the maritime world shaped modern ChinaByZheng Yangwen. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. viii + 362. Hardback £135, ISBN978-90-04-19477-9. - Bâtisseurs d’empires: Russie, Chine et Inde à la croisée des mondes, XVe–XIXe siècleByAlessandro Stanziani. Paris: Éditions Raison d’Agir, 2012. Pp. 188. Paperback €20.00, ISBN978-2-912-10767-1. - The struggle for the Eurasian borderlands: from the rise of early modern empires to the end of the First World WarByAlfred J. Rieber. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 640. 12 maps. Hardback £64.99, ISBN978-1-107-04309-1; paperback £24.99, ISBN 978-1-107-61830-5.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022815000388

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The early modern foundations of the modern world: recent works on patterns of economic and political change - Global crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth centuryByGeoffrey Parker. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxii + 871. 28 colour illustrations, 55 figures. Hardback £29.99, ISBN978-0-300-15323-1; paperback £16.99, ISBN 978-0-300-20863-4. - Escaping poverty: the origins of modern economic growthByPeer Vries. Vienna: Vienna University Press, 2013. Pp. 516. Paperback €59.99, ISBN978-3-8471-0168-0. - Labour-intensive industrialization in global historyEdited byGareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. xiv + 310. 13 b/w illustrations. Hardback £95.00, ISBN978-0-415-45552-7; paperback £37.99, ISBN 978-1-13-890114-8. - China on the sea: how the maritime world shaped modern ChinaByZheng Yangwen. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. viii + 362. Hardback £135, ISBN978-90-04-19477-9. - Bâtisseurs d’empires: Russie, Chine et Inde à la croisée des mondes, XVe–XIXe siècleByAlessandro Stanziani. Paris: Éditions Raison d’Agir, 2012. Pp. 188. Paperback €20.00, ISBN978-2-912-10767-1. - The struggle for the Eurasian borderlands: from the rise of early modern empires to the end of the First World WarByAlfred J. Rieber. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 640. 12 maps. Hardback £64.99, ISBN978-1-107-04309-1; paperback £24.99, ISBN 978-1-107-61830-5.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022815000388

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Volume 11, Issue 1
R. Bin Wong ^(a1)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022815000388

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