Writing about divergences in global history: some implications for scale, methods, aims, and categories
Writing about divergences in global history: some implications for scale, methods, aims, and categories
Kenneth Pomeranz, whose book The Great Divergence was one of the key starting points for global history, has developed a methodological approach to the concept of ‘divergence’. Historical divergences raise many questions: those of perspective, issues of ‘origin’, points where differences become divergences and those of multiple time scales.
Keywords: great divergence, historical divergences, origins, chronologies, multiple time scales, Europe, Lower Yangzi Delta, environmental approaches, efflorescence
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