Peter C. Perdue's "Review of The Great Divergence"
Read this review of Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy to learn about the basic argument presented concerning the diverging development paths of China and Western Europe during the Industrial Revolution.
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