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"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an eloquent, pointed, and personal look at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it. Bringing immense learning and originality to the issue of cultural change over the long-term course of global economic history, Jones questions cultural explanations of much social behavior in Europe, East Asia, the United States, Australia, and the Middle East. He also examines contemporary globalization, arguing that while centuries of economic competition have resulted in the merging of cultures into fewer and larger units, these changes have led to exciting new syntheses. Culture matters to economic outcomes, Jones argues, but cultures in turn never stop responding to market forces, even if some elements of culture stubbornly persist beyond the time when they can be explained by current economic pressures. In the longer run, however, cultures show a fluidity that will astonish some cultural determinists. Jones concludes that culture's "ghostly transit through history" is much less powerful than noneconomists often claim, yet it has a greater influence than economists usually admit. The product of a lifetime of reading and thinking on culture and economics, a work of history and an analysis of the contemporary world, Cultures Merging will be essential reading for anyone concerned about the interaction of cultures and markets around the world.

History of civilization --- World history --- Economics --- Culture --- Social change --- Economie politique --- Changement social --- Sociological aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Aspect sociologique --- Aspect économique --- 316 --- Sociologie --(algemeen) --- 316 Sociologie --(algemeen) --- Aspect économique --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Social aspects --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Sociology --- Economic aspects --- Sociological aspects

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Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every study of industrialization and economic development. In this analytical and comparative work Eric Jones sees the economic condition forming where natural environments and political systems meet: Europe's economic rise is explained as a favoured interaction between them, contrasting with the frustrating pattern of their interplay in the Ottoman empire, India and China. For the third edition Professor Jones has added a new Preface and Afterword.

History of Europe --- History of Asia --- Europe --- Asia --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Europe - Economic conditions --- Asia - Economic conditions

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This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies. After explaining how the author made his discoveries and when they started, it analyses relations between documentary and landscape evidence. It is based on exceptional first-hand observation of a dozen sites and close consideration of topics in the ecological and economic history of southern England. They range from reclaiming chalk down-land, occupying low-lying heaths and reconstructing parkland, to wool-stapling and the manufacture of gunstocks for the African slave trade. Additional themes include the tension between ecology and institutions in decisions about the location of economic activity; the decay of communal farming ahead of enclosure; and other interesting puzzles in rural economic history. This book offers an original approach to questions in economic history through its synthesis of different types of evidence. It will be of interest to a diverse range of readers because it addresses how economic change was registered in the landscape, and how that change was influenced by landscape. It is a book with highly original features, contributing simultaneously to economic, agricultural, environmental, and landscape history. Eric L. Jones is Senior Fellow at the University of Buckingham, UK.

Agriculture --- Landscape changes --- Agricultural landscape management --- Economic aspects --- History --- Landscape management, Agricultural --- Environmental management --- Landscape protection --- Farm management --- Change, Landscape --- Geomorphology --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Economic history. --- Environmental economics. --- Economic History. --- Agricultural Economics. --- Environmental Economics. --- Economic aspects. --- Economics --- Environmental quality --- Agrarian question --- Agribusiness --- Agricultural economics --- Agricultural production economics --- Production economics, Agricultural --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Environmental aspects

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Agriculture --- Economic aspects --- Great Britain --- Economic conditions.

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