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

Kenneth Pomeranz c2000 © Princeton University Press
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  • 9781400813025 (ebook)
  • 9780691090108 (paper)
  • 9780691005430 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page ix)
  • INTRODUCTION Comparisons, Connections, and Narratives of European Economic Development (page 3)
  • PART ONE: A WORLD OF SURPRISING RESEMBLANCES (page 29)
    • ONE Europe before Asia? Population, Capital Accumulation, and Technology in Explanations of European Development (page 31)
    • TWO Market Economies in Europe and Asia (page 69)
  • PART TWO: FROM NEW ETHOS TO NEW ECONOMY? CONSUMPTION, INVESTMENT, AND CAPITALISM (page 109)
    • INTRODUCTION (page 111)
    • THREE Luxury Consumption and the Rise of Capitalism (page 114)
    • FOUR Visible Hands: Firm Structure, Sociopolitical Structure, and "Capitalism" in Europe and Asia (page 166)
  • PART THREE: BEYOND SMITH AND MALTHUS: FROM ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS TO SUSTAINED INDUSTRIAL GROWTH (page 209)
    • FIVE Shared Constraints: Ecological Strain in Western Europe and East Asia (page 211)
    • SIX Abolishing the Land Constraint: The Americas as a New Kind of Periphery (page 264)
  • Appendix A Comparative Estimates of Land Transport Capacity per Person: Germany and North India, circa 1800 (page 301)
  • Appendix B Estimates of Manure Applied to North China and European Farms in the Late Eighteenth Century, and a Comparison of Resulting Nitrogen Fluxes (page 303)
  • Appendix C Forest Cover and Fuel-Supply Estimates for France, Lingnan, and a Portion of North China, 1700-1850 (page 307)
  • Appendix D Estimates of "Ghost Acreage" Provided by Various Imports to Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (page 313)
  • Appendix E Estimates of Earning Power of Rural Textile Workers in the Lower Yangzi of China, 1750-1840 (page 316)
  • Appendix 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 (page 327)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 339)
  • INDEX (page 373)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
EDCC 50.2 (Jan. 2002): 458-460 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/321917
JAS 61.2 (May 2002): 501-538 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2700299
JIH 32.1 (Summer 2001): 101-102 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3656490
AgH 75.3 (Summer 2001): 379-380 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3745152
TC 44.3 (Jul. 2003): 604-606 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25148172
EJ 111:472 (Jun. 2001): F491-F492 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2667901
JAS 60.1 (Feb. 2001): 180-182 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2659525
CQ 167 (Sep. 2011): 754-758 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3451072
CJ 45 (Jan. 2001): 252-254 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3182427
EHR 54.2 (May 2001): 408-409 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3091952
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