HISTORY

Peer Vries and Annelieke Vries

Atlas of Material Life Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th century

Large-scale comparative economic history of westernmost and easternmost Eurasia is of importance for the understanding of global history. The book provides a description of material life in Northwestern Europe and East Asia, for the period from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, with a focus on developments in Great Britain and the Dutch Republic on the one hand and China and Japan on the other hand. Like an atlas it provides information, in an accessible format, on the main characteristics of the economic landscape of this period. Maps, tables, graphs and figures are a prominent and integral part of the book. It shows the constraints to which all pre-industrial economies were subjected because of their dependence on organic natural resources but also the different ways in which the societies discussed dealt with those constraints. To provide a better understanding of this economy of limited possibilities, the final chapter of the book is devoted to the emergence of modern economic growth in Western Europe.

GLOBAL HISTORY

Publication date Autumn 2020 NUR 680 ISBN 9789087283544 e-pdf 9789400603929 epub 9789400603936 Language English Price € 39.50 £ 35.50 $ 47.50 Format Paperback illustrated 190 x 246 mm Page extent 250 Cover design Andre Klijsen Imprint LUP General Peer Vries was professor for Global Economic History at the University of Vienna from 2007 to 2016. Since 2016, he is Honorary Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He published widely on global economic history and on the Great Divergence.

Annelieke Vries-Baaijens studied physical geography with a major in Cartography at Utrecht University. She defended her PhD in mathematics and computer science at Delft University. Since 2010, she makes digital maps of historical subjects.