Zanden Jan Luiten van, Prak Maarten, Epstein Stephan R. Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West

Brill, 2013. — 373 p. — (Global economics history series ; volume 10). — ISBN 978-90-04-24535-8.Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates, through regional studies and paired comparisons, how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution.