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- catalog abstract "This text offers insight into 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 the author shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, he demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade. The author argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber. This made Europe's failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths. Meanwhile, Asia hit a cul-de-sac. Although the East Asian hinterlands boomed after 1750, both in population and in manufacturing, this growth prevented these peripheral regions from exporting vital resources to the cloth-producing Yangzi Delta. As a result, growth in the core of East Asia's economy essentially stopped, and what growth did exist was forced along labor-intensive, resource-saving paths, paths Europe could have been forced down, too, had it not been for favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas.".
- catalog contributor b11615576.
- catalog coverage "China Economic conditions 1644-1912.".
- catalog coverage "China. fast".
- catalog coverage "Chine Conditions économiques 1644-1912. ram".
- catalog coverage "Chine Conditions économiques 1644-1912.".
- catalog coverage "Europe Conditions économiques 1789-1900.".
- catalog coverage "Europe Conditions économiques 18e siècle. ram".
- catalog coverage "Europe Conditions économiques 18e siècle.".
- catalog coverage "Europe Conditions économiques Histoire. ram".
- catalog coverage "Europe Economic conditions 18th century.".
- catalog coverage "Europe Economic conditions 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Europe. fast".
- catalog coverage "Nordwesteuropa. gnd".
- catalog coverage "Nordwesteuropa. swd".
- catalog coverage "Ostasien. gnd".
- catalog coverage "Ostasien. swd".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "As a result, growth in the core of East Asia's economy essentially stopped, and what growth did exist was forced along labor-intensive, resource-saving paths, paths Europe could have been forced down, too, had it not been for favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas.".
- catalog description "Comparisons, connections, and narratives of European economic development -- A World of Surprising Resemblances. Europe before Asia? Population, capital accumulation, and technology in explanations of European development -- Market economies in Europe and Asia -- From New Ethos to New Economy? Consumption, Investment, and Capitalism. Luxury consumption and the rise of capitalism -- Visible hands: firm structure, sociopolitical structure, and "capitalism" in Europe and Asia -- Beyond Smith and Malthus: From Ecological Constraints to Sustained Industrial Growth. Shared constraints: ecological strain in Western Europe and East Asia -- Abolishing the land constraint: the Americas as a new kind of periphery.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-371) and index.".
- catalog description "This made Europe's failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths. Meanwhile, Asia hit a cul-de-sac. Although the East Asian hinterlands boomed after 1750, both in population and in manufacturing, this growth prevented these peripheral regions from exporting vital resources to the cloth-producing Yangzi Delta. ".
- catalog description "This text offers insight into 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 the author shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, he demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade. The author argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber. ".
- catalog extent "x, 382 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691005435 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0691090106 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "9780691005430 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "9780691090108 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Princeton economic history of the Western world.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Princeton economic history of the Western world".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "China Economic conditions 1644-1912.".
- catalog spatial "China. fast".
- catalog spatial "Chine Conditions économiques 1644-1912. ram".
- catalog spatial "Chine Conditions économiques 1644-1912.".
- catalog spatial "Europa;china.".
- catalog spatial "Europe Conditions économiques 1789-1900.".
- catalog spatial "Europe Conditions économiques 18e siècle. ram".
- catalog spatial "Europe Conditions économiques 18e siècle.".
- catalog spatial "Europe Conditions économiques Histoire. ram".
- catalog spatial "Europe Economic conditions 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Europe Economic conditions 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Europe. fast".
- catalog spatial "Nordwesteuropa. gnd".
- catalog spatial "Nordwesteuropa. swd".
- catalog spatial "Ostasien. gnd".
- catalog spatial "Ostasien. swd".
- catalog subject "337 21".
- catalog subject "Comparative economics. fast".
- catalog subject "Comparative economics.".
- catalog subject "Desenvolvimento econômico. larpcal".
- catalog subject "Desenvolvimento econômico.".
- catalog subject "Développement économique Histoire. ram".
- catalog subject "Développement économique Histoire.".
- catalog subject "Economia internacional. larpcal".
- catalog subject "Economia internacional.".
- catalog subject "Economic development History.".
- catalog subject "Economic development. fast".
- catalog subject "Economic history. fast".
- catalog subject "Economische ontwikkeling. gtt".
- catalog subject "Economische politiek. gtt".
- catalog subject "HC240 .P5965 2000".
- catalog subject "História econômica (século 18;século 19) Europa;china. larpcal".
- catalog subject "História econômica (século 18;século 19) Europa;china.".
- catalog subject "Industrialisierung. gnd".
- catalog subject "Industrialisierung. swd".
- catalog subject "Économie comparée. ram".
- catalog subject "Économie politique comparée.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Comparisons, connections, and narratives of European economic development -- A World of Surprising Resemblances. Europe before Asia? Population, capital accumulation, and technology in explanations of European development -- Market economies in Europe and Asia -- From New Ethos to New Economy? Consumption, Investment, and Capitalism. Luxury consumption and the rise of capitalism -- Visible hands: firm structure, sociopolitical structure, and "capitalism" in Europe and Asia -- Beyond Smith and Malthus: From Ecological Constraints to Sustained Industrial Growth. Shared constraints: ecological strain in Western Europe and East Asia -- Abolishing the land constraint: the Americas as a new kind of periphery.".
- catalog title "The great divergence : China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy / Kenneth Pomeranz.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".