What to Read After The Great Divergence
Readers who loved The Great Divergence by Kenneth Pomeranz keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Great Divergence is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Great Divergence
Before European Hegemony
The wealth and poverty of nations
Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army
The Great Wall
China
The cash nexus
Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century
The Modern World-System I
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 1
China
The Art of Not Being Governed
Empires in world history
A concise economic history of the world
The question of Hu
Framing the Early Middle Ages
A farewell to alms
A history of civilizations
The Cambridge illustrated history of China
The have and the have-nots
Global Capitalism
The globalization paradox
Natural experiments of history
Long Twentieth Century
Feudal Society