圖書標籤: 經濟史 曆史 海外中國研究 大分流 比較經濟史 經濟 漢學 中國
发表于2024-05-18
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The Great Divergence brings new insight to 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 Ken Pomeranz 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, Pomeranz 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.
Pomeranz 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.
彭慕蘭(Kenneth Pomeranz),美國加利福尼亞大學爾灣分校曆史係主任、曆史和東亞語言文學教授,加州大學係統世界史研究組主任。其大部分著作圍繞著中國和比較經濟發展、農村社會變革、環境變革及政府的形成等展開研究,但也著有民間宗教史和傢庭結構及性彆角色史方麵的著作。
今天中國經濟史結課還是挺感慨的,本科課程基本結束,但對許多問題的糾結和思考,大概纔剛剛開始。希望未來還能糾結很久。感謝大梁神上課盡職盡責地把這本書復述瞭一遍,不然大概沒毅力細讀;也要深深感激送我這本書的童鞋=D
評分視角很新穎,史料很詳實,但讀起來真是無聊啊
評分a must-read (though not an easy-read) for comparative world history
評分觀點很新穎,但是論證很一般,我就找齣他好幾個例子是不成立的~
評分a must-read (though not an easy-read) for comparative world history
此书作者彭慕兰是著名历史学家,汉学家,“加州学派”代表人物,曾担任美国历史学派会长。我认为彭慕兰先生的《大分流》这本书并不能够被称为完全的社会学著作。而更像是对于18世纪前后中国与英国的经济历史视角的分析。 18世纪时,中国与英国的发展道路分道扬镳。英国走向了工...
評分此书作者彭慕兰是著名历史学家,汉学家,“加州学派”代表人物,曾担任美国历史学派会长。我认为彭慕兰先生的《大分流》这本书并不能够被称为完全的社会学著作。而更像是对于18世纪前后中国与英国的经济历史视角的分析。 18世纪时,中国与英国的发展道路分道扬镳。英国走向了工...
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評分 評分本书系一本研究论文味道十分浓重的著作,尽管作者已把几个具体的小题目考证放到达47页的附录中,但文中穿插引用的资料数字与总结说明几乎占同等分量,真可谓有一分证据讲一分说话。在阅读中必须注意先认真把引言读通,充分熟悉作者的论证思路。因为作者在下面论述的过程中,就...
The Great Divergence pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024