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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Great Divergence"”.
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The occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1736-1898
… have hence long debated the timing of this “Great Divergence.” Since its inception, the Great Divergence debate has created tremendous interest in comparative global economic history and directed both academic and public attention toward linking modern-day global disparities with our past. …
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Defining The Republic
… <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>The “Great Divergence” between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison is one of the most well-known events in the early history of the United States. Together, Hamilton and Madison wrote most of The Federalist, and each was pivotal in securing the …
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A biogeographic analysis of the species Fragaria vesca using microsatellite markers on a worldwide plant collection
… data. The only corresponding results were the great divergence between the American population and the European. Also it was prominent in both methods that the Icelandic population was a separate cluster in the European populations. The two genetic distance methods used showed that the …
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China’s Escape from the “Big Bang”: The 1980s Price Reform Debate in Historical Perspective
… shape today’s global political economy. This new great divergence originates from the different policies pursued in the transition from a command economy. Russia applied a ‘big-bang’ doctrine with rapid price liberalisation at its core. In contrast, a policy of experimentalist gradualism …
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The evolution of mating systems in black scavenger flies (Diptera: Sepsidae)
… sites in conspecific populations that show great divergence in the expression of this trait. The results of this research support the pre-copulatory mate guarding hypothesis for the adaptive significance of escorting behaviour, and they suggest that conspecific populations vary significantly …
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Urban Water Infrastructure in Britain and China (1600–1840)
… interaction, marked by both technological divergence and counterintuitive continuities in technical and architectural prototypes. It thus challenges narratives of isolated development and questions assumptions about technological stagnation in China within the ‘Great Divergence’ debate. In …
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The Latter Days and the Time of the End in the Book of Daniel
… of these phrases are outlined and the great divergence of opinions among scholars concerning them is noted. Furthermore, the issues and problems which this study addresses are pointed out.</p> <p>The investigation of the phrase "the latter days" in chapter 2 shows that only in the …
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Inheritance, Family Structure, and Economic Development in the Lower Yangzi Region, c.1650-1950
… the publication of Kenneth Pomeranz’s The Great Divergence was carried by efforts to collect large amounts of historical macroeconomic data to respond to the question that Pomeranz raised: when exactly did living standards in North-Western Europe start to outperform the economically most …