[PDF] Catalogue Of Oriental Manuscripts And Miniatures Comprising Persian And Turkish Miniatures And Lacquer Including A Fine Miniature Attributable To Ali Riza I Abbasi C 1635 Ten Miniatures From A Previously Unrecorded Ragamala Set And Other Seventeenth Century Mughal Miniatures A Fine Miniature By Ram Kishen 1786 And Other Fine Deccani Rajasthani And Pahari Miniatures A Seventeenth Century Shahnameh With Miniatures In Mughal Style And Another With Eight Nine Miniatures A Shiraz Khamseh C 1440 A Fine Shiraz Kulliyat C 1600 And Other Persian Arabic Sanskrit And Burmese Manuscripts eBook

Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521892261

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Explores the relationship between long-distance trade and the economic and political structure of southern India.

Author : William J. Ashworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199259212

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This book traces the growth of customs and excise, and their integral role in shaping the framework of industrial England; including state power, technical advance, and the evolution of a consumer society. Central to this structure was the development of two economies - one legal and one illicit. If there was a unique English pathway of industrialization, it was less a distinct entrepreneurial and techno-centric culture, than one predominantly defined within an institutional framework spearheaded by the excise and a wall of tariffs. This process reached its peak by the end of the 1770s. The structure then quickly started to crumble under the weight of the fiscal-military state, and Pitt's calculated policy of concentrating industrial policy around cotton, potteries, and iron - at the expense of other taxed industries. The breakthrough of the new political economy was the erosion of the illicit economy; the smugglers' free trade now became the state's most powerful weapon in the war against non-legal trade. If at the beginning of the period covered by this book state administration was predominantly deregulated and industry regulated, by the close the reverse was the case.

Author : Giorgio Riello
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199696160

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This collection of essays examines the history of cotton textiles at a global level over the period 1200-1850. It provides new answers to two questions: what is it about cotton that made it the paradigmatic first global commodity? And second, why did cotton industries in different parts of the world follow different paths of development?

Author : Irfan Habib
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : 9789382381815

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This book covers the whole range of technology, from the tools and skills of ordinary men and women to the instruments of astronomers and the equipage and weaponry of war. Changes in technology are carefully traced and their consequences examined. Larger questions, such as those of constraints on technological development and the role of the social and economic environment, are also addressed. This volume, in line with the others of A People's History of India, gives several extracts from texts, containing significant information about specific aspects of pre-modern technology. There are special notes on technical terms, sources of the history of technology, the problem of invention versus diffusion, and the development of medieval technology outside India. It includes illustrations taken from medieval sculpture, painting and book-illustrations. The volume is addressed to the general reader as well as the student, who would like to read about something on which conventional textbooks have little to offer. A special effort is made to keep the style non-technical without loss of accuracy. It is hoped that the theme is sufficiently interesting not only for the historian but for any citizen wanting to know what common people, men and women, did with their hands and tools in earlier times.