Efflorescences and economic growth in world history: Rethinking the "rise of the west" and the industrial revolution

Journal of World History

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 323-389

  Goldstone, Jack A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ECONOMIC GROWTH; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; WESTERN WORLD;

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