Kenneth Pomeranz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 245228 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kenneth Pomeranz |
| PRENOMES | Kenneth |
| SOBRENOME | Pomeranz |
| ASSINATURA | POMERANZ K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0711-5180 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 326 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Great Divergence
The Great Divergence
Afterword
The COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere near over. Some things, however, seem relatively clear. So far, the agendas of the world's most powerful actors seem unchanged-or, indeed, accelerated. Partly as a result, disease mortality and economic losses have fallen largely on poorer people, though deaths so far have been concentrated among poorer people in rich countries. Consequently, the pandemic's implications look very different at the local, subnationa…
The Environment and World History
Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern and modern world history: population…
Introduction
Joshua B. Freeman. Behemoth
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World weaves together seven case studies of a phenomenon—the development of the world’s largest factories of their respective eras—that has been, oddly, both overemphasized and overlooked. In one sense, as Joshua B. Freeman reminds us, we never lived in an “industrial era” dominated by these iconic factories. Only a handful of countries have ever had even 50 percent of their labor fo…
The Pacific in the Age of Early Industrialization
Contents: Introduction: Supplementary bibliography The European miracle and the East Asian miracle: towards a new global economic history, Kaoru Sugihara Traditional technology and its impact on Japan's industry during the early period of the industrial revolution, Erich Pauer Country girls and communication among competitors in the Japanese cotton-spinning industry, Gary R. Saxonhouse Handicraft and manufactured cotton textiles in China, 1871a 1…
The World That Trade Created
The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted, the authors uncover the deep historical roots of economic globalization. Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book, now in its fourth edition, takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates, …
JAS Round Table on Amitav Ghosh,The Great Derangement
Amitav Ghosh, perhaps Asia's most prominent living author, moves among many genres and across vast territories. His fiction-The Circle of Reason(1986),The Shadow Lines(1988),The Glass Place(2000),The Hungry Tide(2004), andThe Ibistrilogy-takes us from Calcutta where he was born in 1956 to the Arabian Sea, Paris, London, and back again to the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and beyond. His nonfiction-In an Antique Land(1992),Dancing in Cambodia a…
The Cambridge World History
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of The Cambridge World History, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the increasingly interconnected history of humankind. The first book examines structures, spaces, and processes within which and through which the modern world was cr…
Cambridge World History
The Cambridge World History
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of The Cambridge World History, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the increasingly interconnected history of humankind. The second book questions the extent to which the transformations of the modern world have been shared, focussin…
Les eaux de l'Himalaya
Au cours du demi-siècle passé, la Chine et l'Inde ont obtenu une très forte - et nécessaire - augmentation de leur production agricole ; les projets d'irrigation, dont la plupart impliquent de prélever l'eau des nappes phréatiques, ont joué un rôle crucial, mais qui ne saurait durer. Ces pratiques, auxquelles s'ajoute la croissance des villes et de l'industrie, rendent très probables des pénuries dévastatrices dans un futur proche. Pour compenser…
Histories for a Less National Age
Teleology, Discontinuity and World History
Discussions of world history often focus on the pros and cons of thinking on large spatial scales. However, world history also tends to employ unusually large timescales, both for research and teaching; frequently it is framed around a teleology and a series of "revolutions" which mark milestones taking humans from a very distant past to "modernity". Moreover, world history usually rejects regionally specific period markers (e.g. Renaissance), ma…
Contemporary Development and Economic History
“Development” involves increases in human and physical capital, plus institutional changes, that are characteristic of whole societies, not just particular sectors. Such changes are not necessarily well-reflected in GDP figures at the time that these changes are occurring – even assuming that we can measure GDP in historical societies with sufficient accuracy. Consequently, types of largely narrative long-run history focused on one or a few case …
Labeling and Analyzing Historical Phenomena
A serious obstacle to the search for a more scientific history is that humans label themselves and their actions. These labels can be extremely sticky and often obscure the categories which might be most useful for seeking regularities. Another, related, problem is a focus on dramatic events that seem to be relatively rare and are commonly recognized as landmarks, e.g. political and industrial revolutions. Having formed several of these major eve…
An Inquiry into History, Big History, and Metahistory
What is history anyway? Most people would say it's what happened in the past, but how far back does the past extend? To the first written sources? To what other forms of evidence reveal about pre-literate civilizations? What does that term mean -an empire, a nation, a city, a village, a family, a lonely hermit somewhere? Why stop with people: shouldn't history also comprise the environment in which they exist, and if so on what scale and how far …
Their Own Path to Crisis? Social Change, State-Building, and the Limits of Qing Expansion, c.1770–1840
The Great Divergence
Great Divergence
Environment and World History
The Great Himalayan Watershed
From Asia’s mountainous heart flow rivers on which half the world’s population depends. Pomeranz examines the complex interaction between human water needs, fragile ecology and vast infrastructural projects—and the far-reaching consequences of their conjugation
Putting Modernity in its Place(s)
Jack Goody's work on the origins, spatial extent and defining characteristics of modernity has vigorously questioned claims that only European history led to assorted modern characteristics: capitalism, science, democracy, romantic love, and inwardly-motivated personal restraint. He argues that many societies which experienced the Bronze Age urban revolution share certain important material similarities (and some differences) which set them apart…
China in 2008
Chapter 1: Anxieties of a Prosperous Age Chapter 2: Tibet Chapter 3: Meanwhile, Across the Straits ... Chapter 4: Nationalism and the Torch Chapter 5: Earthquake and Recovery Chapter 6: Shanghai Images in Beijing's Year Chapter 7: Tiananmen Reconsidered Chapter 8: The Road to the Olympics Chapter 9: The Olympics as Spectacle Chapter 10: China after the Games Chapter 11: Follow the Leader Chapter 12: Things Seen and Unseen Chapter 13: Pop Culture …
The Great Divergence
The Great Divergence
Empire & ‘civilizing’ missions, past & present
Daedalus Spring 2005 Imperialism’ is a frustratingly vague term, but a useful one–and not only for outside observers and protesting subjects.1 Historically, rulers have often sought to make their empires visible as such by following regional–and in recent centuries, global–standards for acting imperially. Even the past century, in which empires often shunned that designation, is only a partial exception. Imperialism is also topical. While some co…
Social History and World History
This article asks how questions from social history can be more closely integrated into world history and vice versa. It highlights cases in which this has already happened and suggests avenues for further development. It divides social history into three different types: history of daily life, history of social organization, and history of social movements and deliberate attempts to induce social change, whether from the top down or from the bot…
Beyond the East-West Binary
Debate can advance scholarly discussion, and I am grateful toJASfor the chance to do so here. As much as possible, I would like to move forward by introducing additional arguments and evidence. However, some recapitulation of the book under discussion is inevitable, as is some review of debates related to Philip Huang's book on a related topic. Some return to previously plowed ground is further necessitated by the nature of his review. First, he …
Putting Modernity in its Place(s)
Jack Goody's work on the origins, spatial extent and defining characteristics of modernity has vigorously questioned claims that only European history led to assorted modern characteristics: capitalism, science, democracy, romantic love, and inwardly-motivated personal restraint. He argues that many societies which experienced the Bronze Age urban revolution share certain important material similarities (and some differences) which set them apart…
The World That Trade Created
The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted, the authors uncover the deep historical roots of economic globalization. Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book, now in its fourth edition, takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates, …
Land markets in late imperial and republican China
China has had very active markets for both the sale and the rental of land since Song times (960–1279), if not longer. By the sixteenth century, most of the institutional arrangements that would characterize these markets until 1949 were in place. These institutions differed sharply from those of emerging land markets in early modern Western Europe: in particular, government played a lesser role in adjudicating disputes over land contracts, and c…
JAS Round Table on Amitav Ghosh,The Great Derangement
Amitav Ghosh, perhaps Asia's most prominent living author, moves among many genres and across vast territories. His fiction-The Circle of Reason(1986),The Shadow Lines(1988),The Glass Place(2000),The Hungry Tide(2004), andThe Ibistrilogy-takes us from Calcutta where he was born in 1956 to the Arabian Sea, Paris, London, and back again to the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and beyond. His nonfiction-In an Antique Land(1992),Dancing in Cambodia a…
Orthopraxy, Orthodoxy, and the Goddess(es) of Taishan
This article examines James Watson’s influential work on orthopraxy and cultural unification in late imperial China through a study of the cult of the goddess of Taishan. In this case the state (a crucial promoter of standardization for Watson) was internally divided, local elites took a hard line against popular practices, and ritual became increasingly disunified across classes, regions, and genders. Eventually, popular lore about the goddess c…
Re-thinking the Late Imperial Chinese Economy
In this paper, I want to explore a very simple contrast which has many potential implications. China at the end of the nineteenth and in the early twentieth century was, by most measures, a very poor society. China in the latter part of the eighteenth century seemed – both to its own members and to most, though not all, visitors from abroad – a very rich society. So what happened in between
Teleology, Discontinuity and World History
Discussions of world history often focus on the pros and cons of thinking on large spatial scales. However, world history also tends to employ unusually large timescales, both for research and teaching; frequently it is framed around a teleology and a series of "revolutions" which mark milestones taking humans from a very distant past to "modernity". Moreover, world history usually rejects regionally specific period markers (e.g. Renaissance), ma…
Is There an East Asian Development Path? Long-Term Comparisons, Constraints, and Continuities
Much literature normalizes a North Atlantic pattern of development, and sees a regionally specific "East Asian" path in the 20th century. However, development patterns in core regions of Europe and East Asia were surprisingly similar until almost 1800, and Europe's divergence thereafter was shaped by exceptional resource bonanzas. East Asian growth has been less-resource-intensive, and based on different social ideas. Recently, "East Asian" growt…
Special Forum
The Great Divergence
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisin…
Water to Iron, Widows to Warlords
WATER TO IRON, WIDOWS TO WARLORDS: THE HANDAN RAIN SHRINE IN MODERN CHINESE HISTORY* Kenneth Pomeranz On September 22, 1867, Wan Qingli, the President of the Board of Rites, reported the completion of an unusual errand. In the midst of a severe drought, during which repeated prayers at Imperial shrines had been unavailing , Wan was dispatched to a well at Shengjinggang (Ridge of the Sacred Well) in Handan xian, 350 miles from Beijing. First, he p…
The Making of a Hinterland
This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological change in inland North China during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic. Using many new sources, Kenneth Pomeranz argues that the development of certain regions entailed the systematic underdevelopment of other regions. He maps changes in local finance, farming, transportation, taxation, and popular protest, and analyzes the c…
Furrows
Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China . Patricia Buckley Ebrey , Peter N. Gregory
Praying for Power
Mobilizing the Masses
Journal Article Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, by Odoric Y. K. Wou Get access Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan by Odoric Y. K. Wou. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1994. 477 pp. $49.50. Kenneth Pomeranz Kenneth Pomeranz University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 110, Issue 3, Fall 1995, Pages 492–493…
Gender and Power in Rural North China. Ellen R. Judd
The Making of a Hinterland
This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological change in inland North China during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic. Using many new sources, Kenneth Pomeranz argues that the development of certain regions entailed the systematic underdevelopment of other regions. He maps changes in local finance, farming, transportation, taxation, and popular protest, and analyzes the c…
The Making of a Hinterland
Rescuing History from the Nation
CHAPTER 7 Power, Gender, and Pluralism in the Cult of the Goddess of Taishan
"Traditional" Chinese Business Forms Revisited
"Traditional" Chinese Business Forms Revisited: Family, Firm, and Financing in the History of the Yutang Company of Jining, 1779–1956 Kenneth Pomeranz (bio) Introduction: Chinese Firms and Economic Development At least since Max Weber, Western analysts have argued that the differences between Chinese and modern Western business practices help account for China's "failure" to develop something akin to industrial capitalism, despite its sophisticat…
Cadres and Kin
The Great Divergence
"Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia?". "Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber. This made Europe's failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial …
Re-thinking the Late Imperial Chinese Economy
In this paper, I want to explore a very simple contrast which has many potential implications. China at the end of the nineteenth and in the early twentieth century was, by most measures, a very poor society. China in the latter part of the eighteenth century seemed – both to its own members and to most, though not all, visitors from abroad – a very rich society. So what happened in between
The Great Divergence
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisin…
The Great Divergence
The Great Divergence
Is There an East Asian Development Path? Long-Term Comparisons, Constraints, and Continuities
Much literature normalizes a North Atlantic pattern of development, and sees a regionally specific "East Asian" path in the 20th century. However, development patterns in core regions of Europe and East Asia were surprisingly similar until almost 1800, and Europe's divergence thereafter was shaped by exceptional resource bonanzas. East Asian growth has been less-resource-intensive, and based on different social ideas. Recently, "East Asian" growt…
Beyond the East-West Binary
Debate can advance scholarly discussion, and I am grateful toJASfor the chance to do so here. As much as possible, I would like to move forward by introducing additional arguments and evidence. However, some recapitulation of the book under discussion is inevitable, as is some review of debates related to Philip Huang's book on a related topic. Some return to previously plowed ground is further necessitated by the nature of his review. First, he …
Empire & ‘civilizing’ missions, past & present
Daedalus Spring 2005 Imperialism’ is a frustratingly vague term, but a useful one–and not only for outside observers and protesting subjects.1 Historically, rulers have often sought to make their empires visible as such by following regional–and in recent centuries, global–standards for acting imperially. Even the past century, in which empires often shunned that designation, is only a partial exception. Imperialism is also topical. While some co…
Special Forum
Social History and World History
This article asks how questions from social history can be more closely integrated into world history and vice versa. It highlights cases in which this has already happened and suggests avenues for further development. It divides social history into three different types: history of daily life, history of social organization, and history of social movements and deliberate attempts to induce social change, whether from the top down or from the bot…
Orthopraxy, Orthodoxy, and the Goddess(es) of Taishan
This article examines James Watson’s influential work on orthopraxy and cultural unification in late imperial China through a study of the cult of the goddess of Taishan. In this case the state (a crucial promoter of standardization for Watson) was internally divided, local elites took a hard line against popular practices, and ritual became increasingly disunified across classes, regions, and genders. Eventually, popular lore about the goddess c…
Land markets in late imperial and republican China
China has had very active markets for both the sale and the rental of land since Song times (960–1279), if not longer. By the sixteenth century, most of the institutional arrangements that would characterize these markets until 1949 were in place. These institutions differed sharply from those of emerging land markets in early modern Western Europe: in particular, government played a lesser role in adjudicating disputes over land contracts, and c…
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