The Great Divergence — Kenneth Pomeranz — Similar Books & Further Reading

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• Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400–1800. — Adshead, S. A. M.
• The Wild and the Sown. — Ambrosoli, Mauro.
• Accumulation on a World Scale. — Amin, Samir.
• The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. — Arjun Appadurai
• The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times. — Arrighi, Giovanni.
• Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars. — Bayly, C. A.
• The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. — Blaut, James
• Economic Change: Wages, Profits, and Rents, 1500–1750. — Bowden, Peter, ed.
• Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism. — Braudel, Fernand.
• The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible. — Braudel, Fernand.
• The Wheels of Commerce. — Braudel, Fernand.
• The Perspective of the World. — Braudel, Fernand.
• The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. — Diamond, Jared.
• Homo Hierarchicus: An Essay on the Caste System. — Dumont, Louis.
• ReOrient: The Silver Age in Asia and the World Economy. — Frank, Andre Gunder.
• This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India. — Gadgil, Madhav, and Ramachandra Guha.
• The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire. — Good, David.
• Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities. — Handler, Richard, and Daniel Segal.
• Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture. — Hanley, Susan.
• The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology. — Henderson, John.
• Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States. — Hirschman, Albert.
• The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China. — Huang, Philip.
• The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution. — Jacob, Margaret.
• Bread, Politics, and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV. — Kaplan, Steven.
• The Danish Revolution, 1500–1800. — Kjaergaard, Thorkild.
• The Rise of Merchant Empires. — James Tracy
• The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism. — Kulikoff, Alan.
• Inheriting Power: The Story of an Exorcist. — Levi, Giovanni.
• Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660–1800. — MacLeod, Christine.
• Culture, Ideology, and Politics. — Samuel and Gareth Stedman-Jones, eds.,
• Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History — Mintz, Sidney.
• History of Botanical Science. — Morton, A. G.
• American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. — Morgan, Edmund S.
• The Conquest of the Material World. — Nef, John.
• Structure and Change in Economic History. — North, Douglass.
• Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe, 1760– 1970. — Pollard, Sidney.
• Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast with the Third World. — Powelson, John.
• Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. — Roy, William G.
• Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600–1800. — Shepherd, John Z.
• Biomass Energies. — Smil, Vaclav.
• The Bad Earth. — Smil, Vaclav.
• China’s Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development. — Smil, Vaclav.
• Energy in World History. — Smil, Vaclav.
• City of Women: Sex and Class in New York City, 1790–1860. — Stansell, Christine.
• Economic Geography of China. — Sun Jingzhi.
• Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. — Tilly, Charles.
• Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990–1990. — Tilly, Charles.
• China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. — Wong, R. Bin.