Table of Contents

1: Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson: Introduction
2: Agustín Bénétrix, Kevin O'Rourke, and Jeffrey Williamson: Measuring the Spread of Modern Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery
Europe and the Middle East
3: Steven Nafziger and Andrei Markevich: State and Market in Russian Industrialization
4: Alex Klein, Max Schulze, and Tamás Vonyó: East and Central Europe
5: Michael Kopsidis and Martin Ivanov: Industrialization and De-Industrialization in Southeast Europe
6: Matteo Gomellini and Gianni Toniolo: The Industrialization of Italy 1861-1971
7: Ulas Karakoç, Laura Panza, and Sevket Pamuk: Industrialization in Egypt and Turkey, 1870-2010
Asia
8: Dwight Perkins and John Tang: East Asian Industrial Pioneers: Japan, Korea and Taiwan
9: Loren Brandt, Debin Ma, and Thomas Rawski: Industrialization in China
10: Bishnupriya Gupta and Tirthankar Roy: From Artisanal Production to Machine Tools: Industrialization in India over the Long Run
11: Jean-Pascal Bassino and Jeffrey Williamson: From Commodity Booms to Economic Miracles: Why Southeast Asian Industry Lagged Behind
Latin America
12: Aurora Gómez Galvarriato and Graciela Márquez Colín: Industrial Growth in Mexico and Peru over the Long Run
13: Gerardo della Paolera, Xavier Duran, and Aldo Musacchio: The Industrialization of South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia, 1890-2010
Sub-Saharan Africa
14: Gareth Austin, Ewout Frankema, and Morten Jerven: Patterns of Manufacturing Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonization to the Present:

About the Author

Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke is the Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of All Souls College, and the Research Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1989. He has previously taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Columbia University, and Sciences Po, Paris. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the British Academy, and has served
as President of the European Historical Economics Society, and Vice-President of the Economic History Association. He has worked extensively on the history of the international economy. Jeffrey Gale Williamson
is Laird Bell Professor of Economics, emeritus, Harvard University, Honorary Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Research Associate NBER and Research Fellow CEPR. President of the Economic History Association (1994-1995), Chairman of the Harvard Economics Department (1997-2000), and Master of Harvard's Mather House (1986-1993), his most recent books are: Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 (2016, with Peter Lindert) The Cambridge
History of Capitalism (2 vols. 2014, edited with Larry Neal) Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind (2011) Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 (2006) and Global Migration and the World
Economy (2005, with Timothy Hatton).

Reviews

It is a great achievement in economic historical comparison and is well grounded in the datasets available. The book will for sure become a landmark in the provision of region-specific arguments for the dating and the explanation of industrialization processes across the globe.
*Matthias Middell, Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig University, De Gruyter*