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A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The est
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A provocative account showing that “China”—and its 5,000 years of unified history—is a national myth, created only a cen
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The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth
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This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empi
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