A blueprint for the Asian Century?
White-papering the Cracks
By Hugh White
Eric Hobsbawm begins his three-volume account of Europe in the 19th century by observing that the industrial revolution was perhaps the biggest event in human history. This is a plausible claim. Although it directly affected only a relatively small proportion of the world’s population, and bypassed the two most populous countries – China and India – almost completely, Europe’s industr
