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India in the early modern world economy: modes of production, reproduction and exchange
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This article explored the strengths rather than weaknesses of the Indian economy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries when the goods which it produced were in heavy demand in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.Abstract:
India played a leading role in the growth of the early modern world economy. Yet its historiography has been dominated by forebodings of the colonial conquest and decline, which were to overtake it at the end of the eighteenth century. This essay seeks to explore the strengths rather than weaknesses of the Indian economy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries when the goods which it produced were in heavy demand in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. However, it also points to ways in which specific features of India’s commercial development created vulnerabilities to conquest from overseas, which would be exploited later on.read more
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A Global Perspective: Reframing the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease.
TL;DR: The purpose is to show how transnational and transimperial approaches are vital to understanding some of the key issues with which historians of health, disease, and medicine are concerned and to show what can be gained from taking a broader perspective.
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Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c.1750-1850
TL;DR: Ocean of Trade as mentioned in this paper explores the region's entangled histories of exchange, including the African demand for large-scale textile production among weavers in Gujarat, the distribution of ivory to consumers in Western India, and the African slave trade in the Mozambique channel that took captives to the French islands of the Mascarenes, Brazil and the Rio de la Plata.
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Speaking from Siva's temple: Banaras scholar households and the Brahman ‘ecumene’ of Mughal India
TL;DR: By the early sixteenth century, a substantial community of Maratha Brahman scholar families had emerged in Mughal Banaras as discussed by the authors, which mobilized substantial cultural and practical resources to address the challenges that early modernity posed to Brahman communities such as themselves.
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The Origins of Globalization: World Trade in the Making of the Global Economy, 1500–1800
P. de Zwart,J.L. van Zanden +1 more
TL;DR: De Zwart and van Zanden as mentioned in this paper argue that the networks of trade established after the voyages of Columbus and Da Gama of the late fifteenth century had transformative effects inaugurating the first era of globalization.
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Capital; A Critique of Political Economy
TL;DR: In the third volume of "Das Kapital" as discussed by the authors, Marx argues that any market economy is inevitably doomed to endure a series of worsening, explosive crises leading finally to complete collapse.
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The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto.
Anne Krueger,Walt W. Rostow +1 more
TL;DR: A traditional society is one whose structure is developed within limited production functions, based on pre-Newtonian science and technology, and on pre Newtonian attitudes towards the physical world as mentioned in this paper.
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The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England
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Mughal State Finance and the Premodern World Economy
TL;DR: In this paper, Leonard argued that Indian banks were indispensable allies of the Mughal state and that the great nobles and imperial officers were more than likely to be directly dependent upon these banking firms.