Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Global Histories of Material Progress in the East and the West

Project Information

URKEW

Grant agreement ID: 230326

Project closed

Start date 1 June 2009

End date 31 May 2013

Funded under

• Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 1 497 473,00

EU contribution € 1 497 473,00

Coordinated by

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
United Kingdom

Objective

This proposal falls in paradigms for historical research in the comparative economic history of long-run global perspective: associated with the scholarship of Max Weber and Marc Bloch. It is focused upon cosmologies and cultures, promoting or restraining the accumulation of useful and reliable knowledge of production in the Orient and the Occident in the early-modern period - from the accession of the Ming Dynasty to the First Industrial Revolution.

Fields of science

• humanities › history and archaeology › history
• social sciences › political sciences › political transitions › revolutions
• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy › physical cosmology

Keywords

• Culture
• Economic Divergence
• Technology

Programme(s)

• FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• ERC-AG-SH6 - ERC Advanced Grant - The study of the human past

Call for proposal

ERC-2008-AdG
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Funding Scheme

ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant

Host institution

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

• EU contribution: € 1 497 473,00
• Address: Houghton Street 1 ; WC2A 2AE London ; United Kingdom
• Region: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Principal investigator: Patrick Karl O'brien (Prof.)
• Administrative Contact: Bhimla Dheermojee (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

Beneficiaries (1)

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 1 497 473,00
• Address: Houghton Street 1 ; WC2A 2AE London
• Region: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Principal investigator: Patrick Karl O'brien (Prof.)
• Administrative Contact: Bhimla Dheermojee (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data