%0 eBook %A Pomeranz, Kenneth %I Princeton University Press %D 2000 %C Princeton, N.J. %G English %B Princeton economic history of the Western world. %@ 1400813026 %@ 9781400813025 %@ 9781400823499 %@ 1400823498 %@ 1282753959 %@ 9781282753952 %@ 0691005435 %@ 9780691005430 %T The great divergence : China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy %U https://holycross.idm.oclc.org/login?auth=cas&url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb08936.0001.001 %X 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?