Chapter 1: Historiographical Context and Bibliographical Guide.- Chapter 2: Statistical Bases for a Chronology of Economic Divergence Between Imperial China and Western Europe, 1636-1839.- Chapter 3: Environments and Natural Resources.- Chapter 4: The Ming and Qing Imperial States and their Agrarian Economies.- Chapter 5: Sino-Centred Reciprocal Comparisons of Europe's and China's Economic Growth 1650-1850.- Chapter 6: Cosmographies for the Discovery, Development and Diffusion of Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Europe and China.- Chapter 7: Debatable Conclusions.
About the Author: Patrick Karl O'Brien, FBA, was former Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, an Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony's College and an Associate Fellow of the Center for Economic and Social History, Oxford University, UK.
