A Short Guide
E-Book, Englisch, 123 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
ISBN: 978-1-137-57673-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
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The Great Divergence
, Kenneth Pomeranz challenged this assumption on the basis of his evidence that parts of eighteenth-century China were as well placed as northern Europe to achieve sustained economic growth, thus igniting what has been called ‘the single most important debate in recent global history’. Japan, as the only non-Western country to experience significant industrialisation before the Second World War, ought to provide crucial – and intriguing – evidence in the debate, but analysis of the Japanese case in such a context has remained limited. This work suggests ways of re-interpreting Japanese economic history in the light of the debate, so arguing that global historians and scholars of Japan have in fact much to say to each other within the comparative framework that the Great Divergence provides.
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