JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10799)

N - Economic History (881)

N7 - Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services (105)

N75 - Asia including Middle East (12) Year LSE creators Item Type Departments File available

Article

Chilosi, David, Federico, Giovanni (2015). Early globalizations: the integration of Asia in the world economy, 1800–1938. Explorations in Economic History, 57, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2015.04.001

Hunter, Janet (2010). Nature, markets and state response: the drought of 1939 in Japan and Korea. Australian Economic History Review, 50(1), 80-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8446.2009.00273.x

Roy, Tirthankar (2025). A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Swadeshi steam: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the battle against the British maritime empire (Gurugram: Allen Lane, 2023), 493 pp. Indian Economic and Social History Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/00194646251322475

Roy, Tirthankar (2023). Merchants, bankers, governors: British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya, 1786-1920. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 54(3), 553 - 554. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463423000504

Roy, Tirthankar (2013). Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an eighteenth century world region. Modern Asian Studies, 47(4), 1125 - 1156. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X11000825

Working paper

Cheng, Ruoran (2024). Transport cost in the Great Divergence: Yangtze China vs England. (Economic History Working Papers 371). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

Donaldson, Dave (2010). Railroads of the Raj: estimating the impact of transportation infrastructure. (Working Paper 41). Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Knight, Richard (2014). The political economy of Byzantium: transaction costs and the decentralisation of the Byzantine Empire in the twelfth century. (The Economic History working paper series 187). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Learmouth, Tom (2025). Upgrading traditional industries in interwar Japan: from cotton tabi to Bridgestone tyres. (Economic History Working Papers 389). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

Nishizaki, Sumiyo (2022). From Manchuria to post-war Japan knowledge transfer through in-house training at the South Manchuria Railway Company (SMR). (Economic History Working Papers 336). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

Roy, Tirthankar (2010). Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an eighteenth century world region. (Economic History Working Papers 142/10). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wu, Ningzhu (2024). Assessing the role of trade in shaping the Great Divergence between Imperial China and Western Europe. (Economic History Student Working Papers 34). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf