Proto-industrialism

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Manufacturing goods in quantity for export sale, before industrial machinery.

In classical antiquity. In ancient China. In T'ang and Sung China. In medieval Europe and Islam.

See:
• M. I. Finley, The Ancient Economy
• Mark Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past
• Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China

To read:
• Lü shih ch'un ch'iu
• Pratt, Japan's Protoindustrial Elite: The Economic Foundations of the Gono [Blurb]
• The Salt and Iron Dialogues
• Shiba, Commerce and Society in Sung China