[PEN-L:11703] Re: taking stock

["James M. Blaut" <70671.2032@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael:

I take your point. But its hard to draw on my abundant stores of humor when
the issues being discussed are so profoundly important and comntroversial.
I apologize to the list if on occasion I growl and mutter.

Michael, hopefully you'll be with me at the conference on the rise of
Europe at UC-Davis, in mid-October. A slue of people who make some of the
same arguments as I do will be giving papers there. For instance: a group
of California sinologists/economic historians, including Ken Pomeranz, Bin
Wong, and Jack Goldstone, who have data that show China as on a par with
Europe in terms of level and direction and rate of development down through
 the 18th century. Also, a group of economic historians of agricul;ture
(Gregory Clark, George Grantham, and others) who reject the idea that an
agriculturasl revolution occurred in England, or rather that the
development of agirculture somehow underlay economic development before or
during the industrial revolution.

Cheers

Jim B