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Kindleberger, Charles Poor, 1910-

World economic primacy, 1500 to 1990 / World economic primacy, 1500-1990 Charles P. Kindleberger. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. - xiv, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-256) and index.

The national cycle --
Successive primacies --
The Italian city-states --
Portugal and Spain --
The Low Countries --
France, the perpetual challenger --
Britain, the classic case --
Germany, the latecomer --
The United States --
Japan in the Queue?. TOC

Summary:
Charles Kindleberger's World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990 is a work of rare ambition and scope from one of our most respected economic historians. Extending over broad ranges of both history and geography, the work considers what it is that enables countries to achieve, at some period in their history, economic superiority over other countries, and what it is that makes them decline.



ISBN: 0195099028 (cloth : acidfree paper) 9780195099027

LCCN: 95010091

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Economic history.

LC Class. No.: HC51 / .K49 1996

Dewey Class. No.: 330.9 / KIW 1996