Chapter Ships, shipping, technological change and global economic growth, 1400-1800

The major breakthrough in ship design around 1400 creating the full-rigged ship constituted a general purpose technology. It had far-reaching effects on shipping, trade volume, orientation of trade routes, location of production, settlement patterns and many other aspects of life throughout the glob...

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Main Author:	Unger, Richard W.
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Firenze University Press 2023
Subjects:	macroinvention full-rigged ship general purpose technology shipbuilding spillover thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
Online Access:	ONIX_20230803_9791221500929_29
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