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

Información del proyecto

URKEW

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 230326

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de inicio 1 Junio 2009

Fecha de finalización 31 Mayo 2013

Financiado con arreglo a

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

Coste total € 1 497 473,00

Aportación de la UE € 1 497 473,00

Coordinado por

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
United Kingdom

Objetivo

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.

Ámbito científico

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

Palabras clave

• Culture
• Economic Divergence
• Technology

Programa(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)

Tema(s)

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

Convocatoria de propuestas

ERC-2008-AdG
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Régimen de financiación

ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant

Institución de acogida

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Investigador principal

Patrick Karl O'brien (Prof.)

Contacto administrativo

Bhimla Dheermojee (Ms.)

• Aportación de la UE: € 1 497 473,00
• Dirección: Houghton Street 1 ; WC2A 2AE London ; Reino Unido
• Región: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: Sin datos

Beneficiarios (1)

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Reino Unido

Investigador principal

Patrick Karl O'brien (Prof.)

Contacto administrativo

Bhimla Dheermojee (Ms.)

• Aportación de la UE: € 1 497 473,00
• Dirección: Houghton Street 1 ; WC2A 2AE London
• Región: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: Sin datos