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The great divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy
Kenneth Pomeranz
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Frontmatter
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page ix)
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INTRODUCTION Comparisons, Connections, and Narratives of European Economic Development (page 3)
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PART ONE: A WORLD OF SURPRISING RESEMBLANCES (page 29)
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ONE Europe before Asia? Population, Capital Accumulation, and Technology in Explanations of European Development (page 31)
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TWO Market Economies in Europe and Asia (page 69)
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PART TWO: FROM NEW ETHOS TO NEW ECONOMY? CONSUMPTION, INVESTMENT, AND CAPITALISM (page 109)
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INTRODUCTION (page 111)
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THREE Luxury Consumption and the Rise of Capitalism (page 114)
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FOUR Visible Hands: Firm Structure, Sociopolitical Structure, and "Capitalism" in Europe and Asia (page 166)
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PART THREE: BEYOND SMITH AND MALTHUS: FROM ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS TO SUSTAINED INDUSTRIAL GROWTH (page 209)
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FIVE Shared Constraints: Ecological Strain in Western Europe and East Asia (page 211)
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SIX Abolishing the Land Constraint: The Americas as a New Kind of Periphery (page 264)
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Appendix A Comparative Estimates of Land Transport Capacity per Person: Germany and North India, circa 1800 (page 301)
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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)
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Appendix C Forest Cover and Fuel-Supply Estimates for France, Lingnan, and a Portion of North China, 1700-1850 (page 307)
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Appendix D Estimates of "Ghost Acreage" Provided by Various Imports to Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (page 313)
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Appendix E Estimates of Earning Power of Rural Textile Workers in the Lower Yangzi of China, 1750-1840 (page 316)
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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)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 339)
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INDEX (page 373)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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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Published: c2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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