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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Comparisons, Connections, and Narratives of European Economic Development | |
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| Variations on the Europe-Centered Story: Demography, Ecology, and Accumulation | |
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| Other Europe-Centered Stories: Markets, Firms, and Institutions | |
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| Problems with the Europe-Centered Stories | |
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| Building a More Inclusive Story | |
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| Comparisons, Connections, and the Structure of the Argument | |
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| A Note on Geographic Coverage | |
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| A World of Surprising Resemblances | |
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| Europe before Asia? Population, Capital Accumulation, and Technology in Explanations of European Development | |
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| Agriculture, Transport, and Livestock Capital | |
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| Living Longer? Living Better? | |
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| Birthrates | |
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| Accumulation? | |
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| What about Technology? | |
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| Market Economies in Europe and Asia | |
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| Land Markets and Restrictions on Land Use in China and Western Europe | |
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| Labor Systems | |
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| Migration, Markets, and Institutions | |
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| Markets for Farm Products | |
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| Rural Industry and Sideline Activities | |
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| Family Labor in China and Europe: "Involution" and the "Industrious Revolution" | |
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| Conclusion to Part 1: Multiple Cores and Shared Constraints in the Early Modern World Economy | |
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| From New Ethos to New Economy? Consumption, Investment, and Capitalism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Luxury Consumption and the Rise of Capitalism | |
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| More and Less Ordinary Luxuries | |
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| Everyday Luxuries and Popular Consumption in Early Modern Europe and Asia | |
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| Consumer Durables and the "Objectification" of Luxury | |
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| Exotic Goods and the Velocity of Fashion: Global Conjuncture and the Appearance of Culturally Based Economic Difference | |
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| Luxury Demand, Social Systems, and Capitalist Firms | |
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| Visible Hands: Firm Structure, Sociopolitical Structure, and "Capitalism" in Europe and Asia | |
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| Overseas Extraction and Capital Accumulation: The Williams Thesis Revisited | |
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| The Importance of the Obvious: Luxury Demand, Capitalism, and New World Colonization | |
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| Interstate Competition, Violence, and State Systems: How They Didn't Matter and How They Did | |
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| Conclusion to Part 2: The Significance of Similarities--and of Differences | |
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| Beyond Smith and Malthus: from Ecological Constraints to Sustained Industrial Growth | |
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| Shared Constraints: Ecological Strain in Western Europe and East Asia | |
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| Deforestation and Soil Depletion in China: Some Comparisons with Europe | |
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| Trading for Resources with Old World Peripheries: Common Patterns and Limits of Smithian Solutions to Quasi-Malthusian Problems | |
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| Abolishing the Land Constraint: The Americas as a New Kind of Periphery | |
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| Another New World, Another Windfall: Precious Metals | |
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| Some Measurements of Ecological Relief: Britain in the Age of the Industrial Revolution | |
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| Comparisons and Calculations: What Do the Numbers Mean? | |
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| Beyond and Besides the Numbers | |
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| Into an Industrial World | |
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| Last Comparisons: Labor Intensity, Resources, and Industrial "Growing Up" | |
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| Comparative Estimates of Land Transport Capacity per Person: Germany and North India, circa 1800 | |
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| Estimates of Manure Applied to North China and European Farms in the Late Eighteenth Century, and a Comparison of Resulting Nitrogen Fluxes | |
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| Forest Cover and Fuel-Supply Estimates for France, Lingnan, and a Portion of North China, 1700-1850 | |
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| Estimates of "Ghost Acreage" Provided by Various Imports to Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain | |
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| Estimates of Earning Power of Rural Textile Workers in the Lower Yangzi Region of China, 1750-1840 | |
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| Estimates of Cotton and Silk Production, Lower Yangzi and China as a Whole, 1750 and Later--With Comparisons to United Kingdom, France, and Germany | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |