When Did the World Get So Polarized? Or, A Short History of the Latitudinal Gradient, 1820-2000
My main beef with the Pomeranzian modern economic history literature is that it gets the explanandum wrong. What needs to be explained is not why the world was polarized in 1800, with Europe taking the lead over other core regions of Eurasia (India, China, Japan). But rather why did the world become polarized from the late-nineteenth century onwards. An…
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