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This volume brings together some of the very best of half a century of enduring scholarship in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. The selected articles show how historians have developed their understanding of economic and social change in China and India. As introduced by two of its current editors, these seminal studies not only demonstrate the crucial contributions of JESHO but also reflect the various scholarly tendencies in their respective fields. Hence this volume offers readers a unique opportunity to critically compare the historical and the historiographical roots and routes of the modern development of these two new global superpowers. The contributions in this volume have been previously published as articles in Brill’s journal Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Please see the table of contents for more information.

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Author:   Jos Gommans ,  Harriet Zurndorfer ,  Harriet Zurndorfer
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.949kg
ISBN:  

9789004170605

ISBN 10:   900417060
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   22 August 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION JOS GOMMANS AND HARRIET ZURNDORFER, Connecting the Giants through a Global Perspective CHINA DENIS TWITCHETT Lands under State Cultivation under the T'ang JESHO 1 (1959): 162-203. E. BALAZS The Birth of Capitalism in China. JESHO 2 (1960): 196-216. ROBERT HARTWELL A Cycle of Economic Change in Imperial China: Coal and Iron in Northeast China, 750-1350. JESHO 10 (1967): 102-59. JUNG-PANG LO Maritime Commerce and its Relation to the Sung Navy. JESHO 12 (1969): 75-101. PATRICIA EBREY Estate and Family Management in the Later Han as seen in the 'Monthly Instructions for the Four Classes of People'. JESHO 17 (1974): 173-205. TIMOTHY BROOK The Merchant Network in 16th Century China. JESHO 24 (1981): 165-214. KENNETH POMERANZ, Is there an East Asian Development Path? Long-term Comparisons, Constraints, and Continuities. JESHO 44 (2001): 322-362. SOUTH ASIA A. BASHAM A New Interpretation of Indian History. JESHO 1 (1957/8): 333-347. J. DUNCAN M. DERRETT Law and the Social Order in India before the Muhammadan Conquests. JESHO 7 (1964): 73-120. GEORGE W. SPENCER Religious Networks and Royal Influence in Eleventh Century South India. JESHO 12 (1969): 42-56. KENNETH R. HALL International Trade and Foreign Diplomacy in Early Medieval South India. JESHO 21 (1978): 75-98. VIJAYA RAMASWAMY The Genesis and Historical Role of the Masterweavers in South Indian Textile Production. JESHO 28 (1985): 295-325. IQTIDAR HUSAIN SIDDIQUI Water Works and Irrigation System in India during Pre-Mughal Times. JESHO 29 (1986): 52-77.

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Jos Gommans has been the editor-in-chief of The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient since 2006. His major publications are The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, c.1710-1780 (1994;1999); Dutch Sources on South Asia c.1600-1825 (2001); and Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire 1500-1700 (2002); he has also edited five volumes. Since 1993 he has been associate professor of South Asian History at Leiden University's Kern Institute, and in 2008 was visiting professor at the College of William and Mary (Virginia, USA). At present, he is working on a monograph about the Dutch overseas empire. Harriet T. Zurndorfer has been associate professor of Chinese history at the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, since 1978. Her major publications include Change and Continuity in Chinese Local History: The Development of Hui-chou Prefecture 800–1800 (1989); China Bibliography: A Guide to Reference Works about China Past and Present (1995); and Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives (editor, 1999). From 1991 to 2000 she was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. She also founded the journal Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China, which Brill has published since 1999. In 2000 she was elected to a visiting fellowship to All Souls College, Oxford; she has also been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne.

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