"The Great Divergence" 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[...]

In more than 75 brief vignettes, authors Pomeranz and Topik offer unique and entertaining historical perspectives on the world economy, showing that much of 20th century "globalization" goes back centuries.[...]

This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological change in inland North China during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic. Using many new sources, Kenneth Pomeranz argues that the development of certain regions entailed the syst[...]