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Author De Zwart, Pim, author.

Title Globalization and the colonial origins of the great divergence : intercontinental trade and living standards in the Dutch East India Company's commercial empire, c. 1600-1800 / by Pim de Zwart
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 290 pages)
Series Global economic history series ; volume 11
Global economic history series ; v. 11.
Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Early modem globalization -- Prices and consumption patterns -- Wages and the standard of living -- Population, households and labour markets -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary In Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence Pim de Zwart examines the Dutch East India Company¿́¿s intercontinental trade and its effects on living standards in various regions on the edges of the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contrary to conventional views, De Zwart finds significant evidence of the integration of global commodity markets, an important dimension of globalization, before the 1800s. The effects of this globalization, and the associated colonialism, were diverse and could vary between and within regions. As globalization and colonialism affected patterns of economic development across the globe they played a part in the rise of global economic inequality, known as the ¿́¿Great Divergence¿́¿, in the early modern period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 23, 2016)
Subject Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie -- History
SUBJECT Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie fast
Subject Cost and standard of living -- History
Consumption (Economics) -- History
Globalization -- Economic aspects
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
Consumption (Economics)
Cost and standard of living
Globalization -- Economic aspects
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016019796
ISBN 9789004299665
9004299661