and the supportive intellectual environment explain how the Industrial Revolution happened in Europe but not China …"During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained … argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the …

and Europe, using Japan's Tokugawa era (1603-1868) as a benchmark from which to consider public goods provision in Prussia …, China, and England. Japan is similar in size to a European country and linked to China through shared beliefs and practices …. Such an approach allows us to mediate comparisons made directly between China and Europe and to avoid taking England as the …

comparing those cases with others from Europe and China's economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry … Japanese public finance at local levels and a vantage point outside of Europe to encourage a more global view of early modern …