The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
In: Princeton Classics Ser v.118
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In: Princeton Classics Ser v.118
In: Princeton classics edition v.117
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 recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East Asia. Moreover, key regions in China and Japan were no worse off ecologically than those in Western Europe, with each region facing corresponding shortages of land-intensive products. Pomeranz's comparative lens reveals the two critical factors resulting in Europe's nineteenth-century divergence--the fortunate location of coal and access to trade with the New World. As East Asia's economy stagnated, Europe narrowly escaped the same fate largely due to favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas. This Princeton Classics edition includes a preface from the author and makes a powerful historical work available to new readers
In: The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 Volume 11
In: Collezione di testi e di studi., Storiografia
In: Asia policy: a peer-reviewed journal devoted to bridging the gap between academic research and policymaking on issues related to the Asia-Pacific, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 162-165
ISSN: 1559-2960
In: Asia policy: a peer-reviewed journal devoted to bridging the gap between academic research and policymaking on issues related to the Asia-Pacific, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 4-10
ISSN: 1559-2960
In: Economic history of developing regions, Band 27, Heft sup1, S. S136-S148
ISSN: 2078-0397
In: The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c.1760–1840, S. 189-208
In: New left review: NLR, Heft 28, S. 5-39
ISSN: 0028-6060
From Asia's mountainous heart flow rivers on which half the world's population depends. Pomeranz examines the complex interaction between human water needs, fragile ecology and vast infrastructural projects -- and the far-reaching consequences of their conjugation. Adapted from the source document.
In: New left review: NLR, Heft 58, S. 5-40
ISSN: 0028-6060
In: Continuity and change: a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 101-150
ISSN: 1469-218X
ABSTRACTChina has had very active markets for both the sale and the rental of land since Song times (960–1279), if not longer. By the sixteenth century, most of the institutional arrangements that would characterize these markets until 1949 were in place. These institutions differed sharply from those of emerging land markets in early modern Western Europe: in particular, government played a lesser role in adjudicating disputes over land contracts, and customary arrangements included features that (a) gave some sellers of land claims on purchasers that could last for many years and (b) gave some tenants, especially in South and East China, very strong usufruct rights, which themselves became a form of tradable property. However, despite these and other differences from Western models, Chinese land markets were quite efficient, and provided the incentives needed for a very productive agriculture; secure tenants, for instance, responded to their strong position by behaving like owners and investing heavily in improving the land.
In: Journal of world history: official journal of the World History Association, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 69-98
ISSN: 1527-8050
This article asks how questions from social history can be more closely integrated into world history and vice versa. It highlights cases in which this has already happened and suggests avenues for further development. It divides social history into three different types: history of daily life, history of social organization, and history of social movements and deliberate attempts to induce social change, whether from the top down or from the bottom up. The last kind of social history is particularly difficult to frame as world history, partly because we lack terms for collective agents that are agreed to be useful across cultural lines. But developing such a vocabulary remains necessary. The last section of the article examines how social histories of empire offer some approaches that are promising for this purpose.
In: Journal of world history: official journal of the World History Association, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 500-504
ISSN: 1527-8050
In: The journal of economic history, Band 61, Heft 2, S. 546-547
ISSN: 1471-6372