A friendly review of @BCAppelbaum & @BrankoMilan but with this unfortunate line: “China is essentially going through a hugely accelerated version of the industrial revolution & the Gilded Age rolled into one.” #ModernizationTheoryNeverDies https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/the-rich-cant-get-richer-forever-can-they …
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“Stylized facts” vs, uh, real facts — this is one of the main contributions historians make: calling bullshit on facile Whig historiography. I’ve been beating this particular drum for 15 years, though by now am grimly resigned that I will die before modernization theory does.
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Maybe we can just fork it off as a different discipline we call Mannerist History, a sort of literary genre more than a kind of history :D I find I learn as much from such "stylized facts" narrativization. Just different things.
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