Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West : essays dedicated to the memory of S. R. Epstein

by Maarten Prak (Editor), Jan Luiten van Zanden (Editor), Stephan R. Epstein (Contributor)

"Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy" investigates, through regional studies and paired comparisons, how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution.

372 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2013

About the author

Professor of Social and Economic History at Utrecht University.