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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy is a 2000 nonfiction book by Kenneth Pomeranz, published by Princeton University Press. Pomeranz argues that the most advanced regions of Europe and Asia had achieved comparable levels of economic development by the early nineteenth century and faced similar resource constraints, especially on the use of productive land. Only after 1800, as a result of its natural endowments of coal and acquisition of colonial possessions, did Western Europe (Britain) begin to move ahead of Asia. The book has been the subject of intense academic debate and helped to popularize both the term and the study of the Great Divergence in world history.
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