The Great Divergence : : China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy / / Kenneth Pomeranz.
A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the WestThe Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recentl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Classics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (404 p.) :; 1 b/w illus. 9 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Comparisons, Connections, and Narratives of European Economic Development
- Variations on the Europe-Centered Story: Demography, Ecology, and Accumulation
- Other Europe-Centered Stories: Markets, Firms, and Institutions
- Problems with the Europe-Centered Stories
- Building a More Inclusive Story
- Comparisons, Connections, and the Structure of the Argument
- A Note on Geographic Coverage
- Part one: A world of surprising resemblances
- ONE Europe before Asia? Population, Capital Accumulation, and Technology in Explanations of European Development
- TWO MARKET ECONOMIES IN EUROPE AND ASIA
- Part two: from new ethos to new economy? consumption, investment and capitalism
- Introduction
- Three: Luxury Consumption and the Rise of Capitalism
- Four: Visible Hands: Firm Structure, Sociopolitical Structure, and “Capitalism” in Europe and Asia
- Part three: beyond Smith and Malthus: from ecological constrains to sustained industrial growth
- Five: Shared Constraints: Ecological Strain in Western Europe and East Asia
- Six: Abolishing the Land Constraint: The Americas as a New Kind of Periphery
- Appendixes
- A: Comparative Estimates of Land Transport Capacity per Person: Germany and North India, circa 1800
- B: Estimates of Manure Applied to North China and European Farms in the Late Eighteenth Century, and a Comparison of Resulting Nitrogen Fluxes
- C: Forest Cover and Fuel-Supply Estimates for France, Lingnan, and a Portion of North China, 1700–1850
- D: Estimates of “Ghost Acreage” Provided by Various Imports to Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
- E: Estimates of Earning Power of Rural Textile Workers in the Lower Yangzi Region of China, 1750–1840
- F: Estimates of Cotton and Silk Production, Lower Yangzi and China as a Whole, 1750 and Later—With Comparisons to United Kingdom, France, and Germany
- Bibliography
- Index