The Great Divergence
Subtitle: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy.
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780691090108
Subjects: Development economics; Economic history; International - Economics; History; Business / Economics / Finance; History: World; China; East Asia, Far East; Europe; Modern - 19th Century; Asian and Asian American Studies; Economics; European History; History / Modern / 19th Century; Political Science and International Relations; Postcolonial Studies; World History / Comparative History
First sentence: THERE IS no consensus on how Europe became uniquely wealthy by the mid-nineteenth century.