Development or involution in eighteenth-century Britain and China?: A review of Kenneth Pomeranz's the great divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy

Journal of Asian Studies

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 501-538

  Huang, Philip C C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33947284569     PISSN: 00219118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2700299     Document Type: Article

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