The Great Divergence (book)

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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy is a 2000 nonfiction book by Kenneth Pomeranz, published by Princeton University Press. [1] Pomeranz argues that the most advanced regions of Europe and Asia had achieved comparable levels of economic development by the early nineteenth century and faced similar resource constraints, especially on the use of productive land. Only after 1800, as a result of its natural endowments of coal and acquisition of colonial possessions, did Western Europe (Britain) begin to move ahead of Asia (the Yangtze Delta). The book has been the subject of intense academic debate and helped to popularize both the term and the study of the Great Divergence in world history. [2]

The book won the John K. Fairbank Prize for 2000. [3] It was a joint winner for World History Association Book Prize of 2000. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Kindleberger, Charles P. (January 2002). "Kenneth Pomeranz. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. x+382. $16.95 (paper)" . Economic Development and Cultural Change. 50 (2): 458–460. doi:10.1086/321917. ISSN   0013-0079.
  2. ↑ Huang, Philip C. C. (May 2002). "Development or Involution in Eighteenth-Century Britain and China? A Review of Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy" . The Journal of Asian Studies. 61 (2): 501–538. doi:10.2307/2700299. ISSN   0021-9118. JSTOR   2700299. S2CID   162416631.
  3. ↑ "John K. Fairbank Prize Recipients | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  4. ↑ "Kenneth Pomeranz Biography | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-01-03.


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