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Article: Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History. (Book Reviews).
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- Journal of World History
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- March 22, 2002
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Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History. By E. L. JONES. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 2nd ed. Pp. xlvi + 247. $21.95 (paper).
Of all the questions asked about world history, one of the most important is: Why did the "industrial revolution" occur? The usual explanations start in either mid-eighteenth century Britain and emphasize factors unique to Britain, or in Europe as far back as the tenth century and emphasize factors unique to Europe (e.g., Hajnal's demographic thesis) but stressing continuities between pre-modern and industrial Europe (de Vries's "industrious revolution"), or with the global division of labor attendant upon the ...