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

Informations projet

URKEW

N° de convention de subvention: 230326

Projet clôturé

Date de début 1 Juin 2009

Date de fin 31 Mai 2013

Financé au titre de

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

Coût total € 1 497 473,00

Contribution de l’UE € 1 497 473,00

Coordonné par

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
United Kingdom

Objectif

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.

Champ scientifique

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

Mots‑clés

• 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)

Thème(s)

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

Appel à propositions

ERC-2008-AdG
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Régime de financement

ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant

Institution d’accueil

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Chercheur principal

Patrick Karl O'brien (Prof.)

Contact administratif

Bhimla Dheermojee (Ms.)

• Contribution de l’UE: € 1 497 473,00
• Adresse: Houghton Street 1 ; WC2A 2AE London ; Royaume-Uni
• Région: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Type d’activité: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coût total: Aucune donnée

Bénéficiaires (1)

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Royaume-Uni

Chercheur principal

Patrick Karl O'brien (Prof.)

Contact administratif

Bhimla Dheermojee (Ms.)

• Contribution de l’UE: € 1 497 473,00
• Adresse: Houghton Street 1 ; WC2A 2AE London
• Région: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Type d’activité: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coût total: Aucune donnée