CONTENTS

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Illustrations

pp.：  11 – 14

Introduction: The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution

pp.：  15 – 28

PART ONE MEDIEVAL FOUNDATIONS

pp.：  29 – 30

Chapter One Introducing the Problem: The Emergence of Effi cient Institutions in the Middle Ages

pp.：  31 – 45

Chapter Two Why the European Economy Expanded Rapidly in a Period of Political Fragmentation

pp.：  46 – 82

Chapter Three Book Production as a Mirror of the Emerging Medieval Knowledge Economy, 500–1500 (with Eltjo Buringh)

pp.：  83 – 106

PART TWO THE LITTLE DIVERGENCE WITHIN EUROPE

pp.：  107 – 108

Introducing the Problem: The Little Divergence within Europe, 1400–1800

pp.：  109 – 114

Chapter Four Girlpower. The European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and Labour Markets in the North Sea Region in the Late Medieval Period (with Tine de Moor)

pp.：  115 – 156

PART THREE COMMON WORKMEN, PHILOSOPHERS AND THE BIRTH OF A EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

pp.：  157 – 158

Introducing the Problem: The Birth of the European Knowledge Economy

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Chapter Five The Human Capital of the Common Workmen: European Skill Premium in a Global Perspective

pp.：  163 – 190

Chapter Six The Philosophers and the Revolution of the Printing Press

pp.：  191 – 216

PART FOUR TOWARDS THE DUAL REVOLUTION: STATE FORMATION AND MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH

pp.：  217 – 218

Chapter Seven State Formation and Citizenship: The Dutch Republic between Medieval Communes and Modern Nation States (with Maarten Prak)

pp.：  219 – 246

Chapter Eight The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth in the North Sea Region

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PART FIVE TWO GREAT DIVERGENCES

pp.：  281 – 282

Chapter Nine The Arab World, China, and Japan

pp.：  283 – 304

Conclusion 'A Million Mutinies'

pp.：  305 – 314

Appendix One Further Experiments with the Cobb Douglas Production Function: Italy and Western Europe

pp.：  315 – 319

Appendix Two Estimating Chinese GDP Per Capita in the Eighteenth Century

pp.：  320 – 322

References

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Index of Subjects

pp.：  349 – 360