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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. by Kenneth Pomeranz is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><i>The Great Divergence</i> brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chin
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kenneth Pomeranz
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400806294
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Economics, History, World History
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (453 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton Classics, 117) (2021)
- The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) (2000)
- The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) (2001)
- The Great Divergence : China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (2001)