Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the West's problem with the East
- 1 Rationality in review
- 2 Rationality and ragioneria: the keeping of books and the economic miracle
- 3 Indian trade and economy in the medieval and early colonial periods
- 4 The growth of Indian commerce and industry
- 5 Family and business in the East
- 6 From collective to individual? The historiography of the family in the west
- 7 Labour, production and communication
- 8 Revaluations
- Appendix: early links between East and West
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the West's problem with the East
- 1 Rationality in review
- 2 Rationality and ragioneria: the keeping of books and the economic miracle
- 3 Indian trade and economy in the medieval and early colonial periods
- 4 The growth of Indian commerce and industry
- 5 Family and business in the East
- 6 From collective to individual? The historiography of the family in the west
- 7 Labour, production and communication
- 8 Revaluations
- Appendix: early links between East and West
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The East in the West , pp. 285 - 295Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996