http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#proto-industrialism Manufacturing goods in quantity for export sale, before industrial machinery. <P>In classical antiquity. In ancient China. In T'ang and Sung China. In medieval Europe and Islam. <ul>See: <li>M. I. Finley, <cite>The Ancient Economy</cite> <li>Mark Elvin, <cite>The Pattern of the Chinese Past</cite> <li>Joseph <a href="needham.html">Needham</a>, <cite>Science and Civilisation in China</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li><cite>L&uuml; shih ch'un ch'iu</cite> <li>Pratt, <cite>Japan's Protoindustrial Elite: The Economic Foundations of the Gono</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/S99Books/catalog/japan_proto.html">Blurb</a>] <li><cite>The Salt and Iron Dialogues</cite> <li>Shiba, <cite>Commerce and Society in Sung China</cite> </ul>