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Science 12 May 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5468, pp. 982 - 983
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5468.982
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ECONOMIC HISTORY:
Geography as Destiny?
A review by Graeme Lang
The Great Divergence China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
Kenneth Pomeranz
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000. 392 pp. $39.95, £25.95. ISBN 0-691-00543-5.
How could some European societies come to project their power throughout the world while China and India failed to do so? Pomeranz argues that the two most important factors behind this divergence were Europe's possession of convenient supplies of coal and European's armed exploitation of other resource-rich areas.
The author is in the Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon, Hong Kong S.A.R. E-mail: ssgslang{at}cityu.edu.hk
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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)
