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Product Description: For the appendixes mentioned in the book, Click Here.In this innovative and ambitious global history, distinguished economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi critically analyzes the processes leading to the rise of the West since the sixteenth century to its current position as the most prosperous and powerful group of nations in the world...read more

Papers originally presented at a seminar organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

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