彭慕兰

彭慕然（英语：Kenneth Pomeranz，1958年11月4日—；或作彭慕兰），美国历史学家、汉学家，芝加哥大学历史系教授。“大分流”理论的创始人。

生平

彭慕然在1980年毕业于康奈尔大学，1988年取得耶鲁大学历史学博士学位。他的主要研究对象是中国及其经济史，曾两次获得费正清奖。1988年至2012年间，在加州大学尔湾分校历史系任教；2006年入选美国文理学院院士，2013年至2014年间担任美国历史学会主席。

著作

专著

《腹地的构建：一八五三至一九三七年华北乡村的国家、社会、经济》（The Making of the Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Rural North China, 1853-1937）。 (1993)

《大分流：中国、欧洲与现代世界经济的形成》（The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy）。(2000)

合著

与Steven Topik合著，《贸易打造的世界—社会、文化、世界经济，从1400年到现在》（world that trade created: society, culture, and the world economy, 1400-the present）。

Kenneth Pomeranz, FBA (born November 4, 1958) is University Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1980, where he was a Telluride Scholar, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988, where he was a student of Jonathan Spence. He then taught at the University of California, Irvine, for more than 20 years. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2006. In 2013–2014 he was the president of the American Historical Association. Pomeranz has been described as a major figure in the California School of economic history.

Selected publications

Books

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2000. John K. Fairbank Prize 2001. Joint winner, World History Association 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 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 [examination 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 [boundaries]” 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).