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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480550703321

Autore

De Zwart Pim

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]

ISBN

90-04-29966-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Global economic history series ; ; v. 11

Disciplina

330.916506

Soggetti

Cost and standard of living - History

Consumption (Economics) - History

Globalization - Economic aspects

Consumption (Economics)

Cost and standard of living

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Early Modern Globalization -- Prices and Consumption Patterns -- Wages and the Standard of Living -- Population, Households and Labour Markets -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Weights and Measures -- Appendix 2: Coins and Silver Values -- Appendix 3: Kcal and Protein -- Appendix 4: Creating the Price Series -- Appendix 5: An Alternative Method for Dealing with Gaps in the Price Data -- Appendix 6: The Wage Data -- Appendix 7: Estimating Population Trends for Ceylon -- Appendix 8: Occupational Structure of Ceylon -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.