This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been taken as read that the industrial revolution was the...

Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: The Great Divergence and Japan So Far -- Chapter 2: The Great Divergence Debate -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Explaining the Great Divergence -- 3.1 Resources, Trade, and Globalisation -- 3.2 Institutions and the Market -- 3.3...