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

Informazioni relative al progetto

URKEW

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 230326

Progetto chiuso

Data di avvio 1 Giugno 2009

Data di completamento 31 Maggio 2013

Finanziato da

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

Costo totale € 1 497 473,00

Contributo UE € 1 497 473,00

Coordinato da

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
United Kingdom

Obiettivo

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.

Campo scientifico

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

Parole chiave

• Culture
• Economic Divergence
• Technology

Programma(i)

• 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)

Argomento(i)

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

Invito a presentare proposte

ERC-2008-AdG
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Meccanismo di finanziamento

ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant

Istituzione ospitante

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Ricercatore principale

Patrick Karl O'brien (Prof.)

Contatto amministrativo

Bhimla Dheermojee (Ms.)

• Contributo UE: € 1 497 473,00
• Indirizzo: Houghton Street 1 ; WC2A 2AE London ; Regno Unito
• Regione: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Tipo di attività: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Costo totale: Nessun dato

Beneficiari (1)

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Regno Unito

Ricercatore principale

Patrick Karl O'brien (Prof.)

Contatto amministrativo

Bhimla Dheermojee (Ms.)

• Contributo UE: € 1 497 473,00
• Indirizzo: Houghton Street 1 ; WC2A 2AE London
• Regione: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Tipo di attività: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Costo totale: Nessun dato