LEADER 03270oam 2200493 450 001 9910427041303321 005 20220413213528.0 010 $a3-030-54614-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-54614-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011508875 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6381454 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-54614-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011508875 100 $a20210416d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe economies of imperial China and Western Europe $edebating the great divergence /$fPatrick O'Brien 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (XIII, 121 p. 1 illus.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Economic History,$x2662-6497 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-030-54613-6 327 $aChapter 1: Historiographical Context and Bibliographical Guide -- Chapter 2: Statistical Bases for a Chronology of Economic Divergence Between Imperial China and Western Europe, 1636-1839 -- Chapter 3: Environments and Natural Resources -- Chapter 4: The Ming and Qing Imperial States and their Agrarian Economies -- Chapter 5: Sino-Centred Reciprocal Comparisons of Europe?s and China?s Economic Growth 1650-1850 -- Chapter 6: Cosmographies for the Discovery, Development and Diffusion of Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Europe and China -- Chapter 7: Debatable Conclusions. 330 $aThis book is a critical interpretation of a seminal and protracted debate in comparative global economic history. Since its emergence, in now classic publications in economic history between 1997-2000, debate on the divergent economic development that has marked the long-term economic growth of China and Western Europe has generated a vast collection of books and articles, conferences, networks, and new journals as well as intense interest from the media and educated public. O?Brien provides an historiographical survey and critique of Western views on the long-run economic development of the Imperial Economy of China ? a field of commentary that stretches back to the Enlightenment. The book?s structure and core argument is concentrated upon an elaboration of, and critical engagement with, the major themes of recent academic debate on the ?Great Divergence? and it will be of enormous interest to academics and students of economic history, political economy, the economics of growth and development, state formation, statistical measurements, environmental history, and the histories of science and globalization. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Economic History,$x2662-6497 606 $aEconomic history 607 $aChina$xEconomic conditions$y1644-1912 607 $aEurope$xEconomic conditions$y17th century 607 $aEurope$xEconomic conditions$y18th century 615 0$aEconomic history. 676 $a330.95103 700 $aO'Brien$b Patrick$f1932-$0127265 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910427041303321 996 $aThe economies of Imperial China and Western Europe$91935656 997 $aUNINA