Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Globalization challenge and economic response in the Mediterranean -- Long-run growth: a comparative assessment -- How poor was the European periphery before 1850? The Mediterranean vs Scandinavia -- Real wages and relative factor prices around the Mediterranean, 1500 1940 -- European economic development: the core and the southern periphery, 1870 1910 -- Long-run growth: country studies -- Growth and retardation in Ottoman Macedonia, 1880 1910 -- The choice of technology: Spanish, Italian, British and US cotton mills compared, 1830 60 -- Trade, transport and domestic production in the century before World War II -- Specialization in the international market for olive oil before World War II -- International competition and the development of the dried-fruit industry, 1880 1930 -- International shipping in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea: Istanbul as a maritime centre, 1870 1910 -- Pre-1914 policy choices and the political economy of growth -- Much Ado About Nothing? Italian trade policy in the late nineteenth century -- What slowed down the mass emigration from Spain before World War II? A comparison with Italy -- Interwar policy choices and the political economy of growth -- Intervention during the Great Depression: another look at Turkish experience -- Egyptian commodity markets in the age of economic liberalism -- Twentieth-century Palestine -- Economic growth and external trade in Mandatory Palestine: A special Mediterranean case -- Bibliography -- Index.