The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia

by Eric Jones

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Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every study of industrialization and economic development. In this analytical and comparative work Eric Jones sees the economic condition forming where natural environments and political systems meet: Europe's economic rise is explained as a favoured interaction between them, contrasting with the frustrating pattern of their interplay in the Ottoman show more empire, India and China. For the third edition Professor Jones has added a new Preface and Afterword. show less

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The third edition, as by Eric Jones, 2003, differs from the second by adding a four page preface and a long afterword in which he distinguishes eight challenges to the second edition and replies to them.

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