"Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe … Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than … conventional views, which hold that divergence occurred because Europe possessed superior markets, rationality, science or …

Contrary to popular narratives, 'The Great Divergence Reconsidered' shows that Europe's rise to its current status as … seventeenth century, if not earlier. When compared to India and other parts of the Asiatic world, early modern Europe was … changes and made Europe's supremacy even more pronounced. Thus, an interplay of various factors best explains Europe's early …