The great divergence : China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy

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Title:

The great divergence : China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy

Author:

Pomeranz, Kenneth.

Personal Author:

Pomeranz, Kenneth.

Publication Information:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]

Physical Description:

x, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

The Princeton economic history of the Western world

Princeton economic history of the Western world.

Language:

English

Contents:

Comparisons, connections, and narratives of European economic development -- Europe before Asia? Population, capital accumulation, and technology in explanations of European development -- Market economies in Europe and Asia -- Luxury consumption and the rise of capitalism -- Visible hands: firm structure, sociopolitical structure, and "capitalism" in Europe and Asia -- Shared constraints: ecological strain in Western Europe and East Asia -- Abolishing the land constraint: the Americas as a new kind of periphery.

Reading Level:

1750 Lexile.

Subject Term:

Economic development -- History.

Comparative economics.

Geographic Term:

Europe -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.

Europe -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.

China -- Economic conditions -- 1644-1912.

ISBN:

9780691005430

9780691090108