Beyond the east-west binary: Resituating development paths in the eighteenth-century world

Journal of Asian Studies

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 539-590

  Pomeranz, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2700300     Document Type: Article

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