"The Global Economy - a Concise History traces the history of global economy over the past thousand years. In doing so, it explores all the main waves of globalization, from the trade revolution of the Middle Ages, to the Great and Little Divergence between the West and the East, as well as the...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1: The structural characteristics of preindustrial economies -- 1.1: From the Neolithic Revolution to the Bronze Age urbanrevolution -- 1.2: The structural features of agrarian economies...