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Kenneth Pomeranz
Researcher at University of California, Irvine
Publications - 50
Citations - 3759
Kenneth Pomeranz is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & World history. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 47 publications receiving 3625 citations. Previous affiliations of Kenneth Pomeranz include University of California.
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
TL;DR: Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber as mentioned in this paper, which made Europe's failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy intensive industries.
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The Great Divergence
TL;DR: Pomeranz as mentioned in this paper examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East Asia.
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[The Great Divergence: Europe, China & the Making of the Modern World Economy]
Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven H. Lee +1 more
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
Steven H. Lee,Kenneth Pomeranz +1 more
TL;DR: The origins of industrial capitalism have occupied a central place in the sociological studies of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and these very questions continue to haunt social scientists, albeit in different ways as mentioned in this paper.