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

What the summary covers

1. The question before industry2 min
2. Environment, households, and risk2 min
3. Disasters and the stock of capital2 min
4. Technology as a long drift2 min
5. The discoveries and extra land2 min
6. Making a market economy2 min
7. A Europe of competing states2 min
8. What nation states added2 min
9. Testing the explanation beyond Europe2 min
10. Islam and the Ottoman empire2 min
11. India under Mughal rule2 min
12. China under Ming and Manchu rule2 min
13. A combination of causes2 min
14. A third edition reconsideration2 min

Read it alongside

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  Jones treats later marriage and smaller families as a relative advantage of preindustrial Europe; Pomeranz argues that Chinese and Japanese families also effectively limited births, leaving Europe no distinctive demographic advantage.

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