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What strikes you as important here?
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Some questions on my mind:
1.
Is sub-Saharan Africa's trajectory a unique one, a “special way”, or has it just been an intensifi cation of growth retarding features also
seen substantially at work elsewhere?
2.
How are we to understand the end of apparent African retardation around 2000?
3.
Do you think what is going on in the interior of China, with the exception of a few cities along the Yangtze that look a lot like the
coasts, is more like what has been going on in the rest of Asia or just the Pacifi c rim story delayed by a few decades?
4.
Is your guess that China or India is more likely to be the world's predominant superpower come 2100
?
5.
Up
un
til 1500 the
M
iddle
E
ast, especially what is now Turkey, Iran, and Egypt, seemed to have important and impressive civilizational
advantages over western Europe. How
does
the story of western Europe's growing post 1500 edge in prosperity look different if one
looks not from the western European vantage point, as we did earlier in the course, but from the Middle Eastern?
And why
the
“sudden stop” of the Middle East in development around 1500? (It
really was
doing fi ne in comparative perspective before then.)
6.
Could Muhammed Ali’s dynasty have led a “Meiji Restoration” in Egypt, had his descendants been truly fortunate?
7.
Why does it seem that (both) Egypt (and Japan) had so much more state capacity to at least attempt reform in the 1800s to start to take
advantage of the Industrial Revolution?
8.
Why didn’t the bad predatory institutions of the Netherlands abroad in Indonesia leak back home, and damage the Dutch economy as
well?
5.[6-8].3.
Touring The Continents: Lectures: Africa,
Asia South of Siberia, & Middle East
55:30 in this powerpoint-with-audio lecture
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