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Kenneth Pomeranz, FBA (born November 4, 1958) is University Professor of History at the
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
. He received his B.A. from
Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
in 1980, where he was a Telluride Scholar, and his
Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...
from
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
in 1988, where he was a student of
Jonathan Spence Jonathan Dermot Spence (11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) was an English-born American historian, sinologist, and writer who specialized in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His ...
. He then taught at the
University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
, for more than 20 years. He was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts & Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America, United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bow ...
in 2006. In 2013–2014 he was the president of the
American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...
.


Selected publications


Books

*'' The great divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy''. Princeton University Press, 2000.
John K. Fairbank Prize The John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History is offered annually for an outstanding book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, substantially after 1800. It honors the late John K. ...
2001. Joint winner,
World History Association The World History Association (WHA) is an academic association that promotes the study of world history through the encouragement of research, teaching, and publication. It was founded in 1982. The WHA provides many opportunities for connecting w ...
Best book of 2000. *''The world that trade created: society, culture and the world economy, 1400 to the present''. M. E. Sharpe: 1999. *''The making of a hinterland: state, society and economy in inland north China, 1853-1937''. University of California Press, 1993.
John K. Fairbank Prize The John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History is offered annually for an outstanding book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, substantially after 1800. It honors the late John K. ...
1994.


Edited volumes

* ''The Pacific in the Age of Early Industrialization''. Farnham England: Ashgate/Variorum, 2009. * with McNeill, J. R., (2015). ''The Cambridge world history: Production, destruction, and connection, 1750 to the present''. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * with Barker, G., Benjamin, C., Bentley, J. H., Christian, D., Goucher, C., Kedar, B. Z., Mcneill, J. R., Yoffee, N. (2015). ''The Cambridge world history: Structures, spaces, and boundary making''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * ''China in 2008: A year of great significance''. (co-ed.). Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.


Articles and chapters in edited volumes

* The environment and world history. (co-ed.) Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009. * “Orthopraxy, orthodoxy, and the goddess(es) of Taishan xamination of the Bixia yuanjun cult” ''Modern China'' 33.1 (2007) 22–46. * “Region and world in economic history: the early modern / modern divide” ''Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies'' 52 (2007) 41–55. * “Standards of living in eighteenth-century China: regional differences, temporal trends, and incomplete evidence” In: Allen, Robert C.; Bengtsson, Tommy; Dribe, Martin, eds. ''Living standards in the past: new perspectives on well-being in Asia and Europe''. (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005): 23–54. * “Women's work and the economics of respectability oundaries In: Goodman, Bryna; Larson, Wendy, eds. ''Gender in motion: divisions of labor and cultural change in late imperial and modern China'' (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005): 239–263. * “Women's work, family, and economic development in Europe and East Asia: long-term trajectories and contemporary comparisons” In: Arrighi, Giovanni; Hamashita, Takeshi; Selden, Mark, eds. ''The resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 year perspectives'' (London; New York: Routledge, 2003): 124–172. * “Facts are stubborn things: a response to Philip Huang” ''Journal of Asian Studies'' 62.1 (February 2003): 167–181. * “Political economy and ecology on the eve of industrialization: Europe, China, and the global conjuncture” ''American Historical Review'' 107.2 (April 2002) 425–446. * “Beyond the East-West binary: resituating development paths in the eighteenth-century world” ''Journal of Asian Studies'' 61.2 (May 2002) 539–590. * “Is there an East Asian development path? Long-term comparisons, constraints, and continuities” ''Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient'' 44, pt.3 (Aug 2001) 322–362. * “Re-thinking the late imperial Chinese economy: development, disaggregation and decline, circa 1730-1930” ''Itinerario'' 24.3-4 (2000) 29–74. * "Ritual Imitation and Political Identity in North China: The late Imperial Legacy and the Chinese National State Revisited," ''Twentieth Century China'' 23:1 Fall, 1997. * "Power, Gender and Pluralism in the cult of the Goddess of Taishan," in R. Bin Wong, Theodore Huters, and Pauline Yu, eds., ''Culture and State in Chinese History'' (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997). * “"Traditional' Chinese business forms revisited: family, firm, and financing in the history of the Yutang Company of Jining, 1779-1956.” ''Late Imperial China'' 18.1 (June 1997): 1-38. * “Local interest story: political power and regional differences in the Shandong capital market, 1900-1937” In: Rawski, Thomas G.; Li, Lillian M., eds. ''Chinese history in economic perspective''(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) 295–318. * "Water to Iron, Widows to Warlords: the Handam Rain Shrine in Modern Chinese History," ''Late Imperial China'' 12.1 (June 1991) 62–99.


Awards and honors

*1994
John K. Fairbank Prize The John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History is offered annually for an outstanding book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, substantially after 1800. It honors the late John K. ...
for best book in East Asian history *1997 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship *2001 World History Association Book Prize *2001
John K. Fairbank Prize The John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History is offered annually for an outstanding book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, substantially after 1800. It honors the late John K. ...
for best book in East Asian history *2011-12 Fellow at the
Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...
in Princeton, New Jersey * 2017, Elected
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: # Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom # C ...
(FBA), the United Kingdom's
national academy A national academy is an organizational body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, most frequently in the sciences but also the humanit ...
for the humanities and social sciences. *2019
Dan David Prize The Dan David Prize is a major international award that recognizes and supports outstanding contributions to the study of history and other disciplines that shed light on the human past. It awards nine prizes of $300,000 each year to outstanding ...
*2021
Toynbee Prize Arnold Joseph Toynbee (; 14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College ...


References


External links


China and Europe
1500–2000 and beyond: What is modern? with Ken Pomeranz and
Bin Wong Roy Bin Wong (; born 1949) is a Chinese economic historian at UCLA. He was the Director of the UCLA Asia Institute from 2004 to 2016. He received his BA from the University of Michigan, and received his MA and PhD from Harvard University ...
*Short video of Kenneth Pomeranz from the documentar
"China's Century of Humiliation"
*Video of Kenneth Pomeranz speaking at the World Bank Group's 2006 Private Sector Development Forum o
"Where is the World Going?"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pomeranz, Kenneth Living people 1958 births 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American sinologists University of Chicago faculty American male non-fiction writers