Title: Winner of 2001 World History Association Book Award
Product review: The Book Award Committee of the World History Association is pleased to announce that this book is co-winner of its 2001 prize, along with John McNeill's Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World. Jurors praised both books using words like "brilliant," "superb," tour de force, and "a classic." Pomeranz shows that China had more economic constraints than Europe, which profited from windfalls of land and silver in the American colonies, and available coal which fueled England's industrialization. Congratulations for an outstanding contribution to "history from a global perspective" in the field of economics. The prize will be presented at the June 2001 meeting of the WHA in Salt Lake City.
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