Diverging Paths……
Literature, spring 2005
Below you will find a list of readings. The * is used to mark obligatory, core literature. You will need to borrow or buy some books. The rest of the literature will be collected and made available to all students following the course.
The books you need to buy or borrow are:
*Alice H. Amsden, The Rise of “The Rest”. Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. (pp. 1-98) (73 pp)
*E.L.Jones, The European Miracle: Environments, Economics and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia, Cambridge: CUP, 2002, (esp. chpt. 1,2, 9, 10)
*David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich Some So Poor, New York, US, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1999. (pp c. 200)
*Robert B. Marks, “The Industrial Revolution and Its Consequences, 1750-1850”, “The Gap”, in R.B.Marks, The Origins of the Modern World, Lanham; Boulder; New York; Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, pp. 96-119; 124-150. (48 pp)
*Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Princeton, New Jersey, US and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2000.(esp. pp. 1-113)
The rest of the obligatory literature will be made available in a kompendium or as hand-outs.
*Maxine Berg, “Manufacturing the Orient. Asian Commodities and European Industry 1500-1800”, Istituto Francesco Datini, 1997. (28 pp)
Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century: Vol. 3, The Perspective of the World, (1979). Chpt. 1.
Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age, (Berkley, Los Angeles, US and London), 1998.
*Donna J. Guy, “The Morality of Economic History and the Immorality of Imperialism”, The American Historical Review, Vol 104, No 4, 2002. (5 pp)
*David Ludden, “Modern Inequality and Early Modernity: A Comment for the AHR on Articles by R. Bin Wong and Kenneth Pomeranz”, The American Historical Review, Vol 107, No 2, April 2002, pp. 470-481. (7 pp)
*Patrick Manning, “Asia and Europe in the World Economy: Introduction”, The American Historical Review, Vol 107, No 2, April 2002, pp. 419-425. (5 pp)
Patrick O’Brien, “The Industrial Revolution”, Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Encyclopedia of European Social History, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons (12 pp)
*Patrick O’Brien, “Perspectives on Global History: Concepts and Methodology”, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo, August, 2000, pp 3-19. (16 pp)
*Kenneth Pomeranz, “Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China and the Global Conjuncture”, The American Historical Review, Vol 107, No 2, April 2002, pp. 425-446. (19 pp)
*Peer Vries, “Are Coal and Colonies Really Crucial? Kenneth Pomeranz and the Great Divergence”, Journal of World History, vol. 12, no 2, pp 408-446. (38 pp)
Roy Bin Wong, China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience, Itacha and London, 1997.
Some additional literature will be handed out during the course.