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1 Peer Vries, Contact: Institute for Economic and Social History University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Wien; Tel Fax peer.vries@univie.ac.at A brief curriculum vitae I was born October 7, 1953 in Weert in Limburg (the Netherlands), where I visited primary school and then what in the Netherlands is called gymnasium or grammar school. I studied history at the University of Leiden, where I specialised in economic and social history with philosophy of science and sociology as, what we would now call, my minors. I graduated cum laude in After graduation I got a job at the Department of History in Leiden. Until 1997 that job consisted only and fully of teaching. I taught a very broad range of topics at all levels of the curriculum in the bachelor programme as well as in the master programme : economic and social history, methodology of historical research, historiography, philosophy of history, history of the early modern world, history of twentieth-century Spain and global history, always with a clear focus on economic and social aspects. I have always liked to be interdisciplinary. I have taught, for example, an introduction into economics for historians, economic and social history for sociologists, modern history for political scientists and an introduction into history for art historians. I have extensive experience with teaching and evaluating PhD. students, not only in my work for the Posthumus Institute and for ESTER, but also in many courses for other research schools in which I have participated. The Posthumus Institute is a research school in which all those engaged in economic and social history at academic institutions in the Netherlands and Belgium participate. ESTER stands for European graduate School for Training in Economic and socialhistorical Research. In the ESTER Network some 50 European universities participate. I helped to co-ordinate and participated in so-called Research Design Courses for PhD students of this School in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bari, Brescia, Budapest, Evora, Frankfurt, Ghent 2x, Gothenburg, Munster, Nijmegen, Paris, Tampere, Verona and Vienna. In summer 2011, I have - with three colleagues - organised a course of two weeks in Pittsburgh for PhD Students from all over the world, who plan to write a thesis in the field of global history. I did the same during the summer of 2012 in Boston. Main publications after Verhaal en betoog. Geschiedbeoefening tussen postmoderne vertelling en sociaal-wetenschappelijke analyse (Leiden 1995). PhD. 657 pages. (Story and argument. The study of history between postmodern story-telling and social-scientific analysis) This book contains an extensive and intensive analysis of various debates between those who plea for history as a social science in which theoretical, explanatory generalisations, structure and method play a prominent role, versus those who are more in favour of an

2 interpretive-descriptive, narrative approach. I analyse the positions in the debate and indicate my own position. - Three chapters on the economy of early modern Western Europe in B.M.A. de Vries, ed., Van agrarische samenleving naar verzorgingsstaat. De modernisering van West Europa (Groningen 2000) pages (From agrarian society to welfare state. The modernization of Western Europe). The book has gone through three editions and big changes and has been translated, in earlier versions, in Hungarian and Russian. - Three chapters in H. Beliën en G.J. van Setten, eds., Geschiedschrijving in de twintigste eeuw. Discussie zonder eind (Amsterdam 2001; first edition Amsterdam 1991) pages , and (History in the twentieth century: a debate without end). I wrote chapters on the Annales, on historical sociology and on the return of the narrative. It has gone through three editions. - Europa en de rest: Braudel over het kapitalisme in: M.Ph. Bossenbroek, M.E.H.N. Mout en C. Musterd, eds., Met de Franse slag. Opstellen voor H.L. Wesseling (Leiden 1998) (Europe and the rest: Braudel on capitalism). - Should we really ReORIENT?, Itinerario. European Journal of Overseas History, 22, 3 (1998) 19-38, a review-article of Andre Gunder Frank, Reorient. Global economy in the Asian Age (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London 1998). Frank reacted and I responded (pages 16-24) in Itinerario. European Journal of Overseas History, 22, 4 (1998). - Hoe het Westen rijker werd: the Rise of the West in economisch perspectief, Theoretische Geschiedenis 25, 4 (1998) (How the West grew rich: the Rise of the West from an economic perspective. (An extensive review, synthesis and evaluation of recent literature on the West and the Rest in the early modern era). With a colleague I was editor of the special issue of this journal in which this article appeared. It was called: The West. A special case? - Culture, clocks, and comparative costs. David Landes on the wealth of the West and the poverty of the rest, Itinerario. European Journal of Overseas History 22, 4 (1998) 67-89, a review-article of David S. Landes, The wealth and poverty of nations. Why some are so rich and some so poor (London and New York 1998). Landes reacted and I responded (pages 16-22) in Itinerario. European Journal of Overseas History 23, 1 (1999). - Are coal and colonies really crucial? Kenneth Pomeranz and the Great Divergence, Journal of World History 12, 2 (2001) The role of culture and institutions in economic history: can economics be of any help? NEHA Jaarboek 64 (2001) Also published on the net - Via Peking terug naar Manchester: Engeland, de Industriële Revolutie en China (Nijmegen 2001) (Via Peking back to Manchester. Britain, the Industrial Revolution, and China). Inaugural lecture at Nijmegen University. In 2009 a Japanese translation of this text has been put on the Web. - Governing growth: a comparative analysis of the role of the state in the rise of the West, Journal of World History 13, 1 (2002)

3 - Via Peking back to Manchester. Britain, the Industrial Revolution, and China (Leiden 2003) 109 pages, some 62,000 words, a revised, greatly extended and updated version of my inaugural lecture at Nijmegen University. - Hoe Malthus, uiteindelijk, ongelijk kreeg. De Industriële Revolutie in Engeland als het doorbreken van het Malthusiaans plafond, Leidschrift 18, 2 (2003) (25,000 words). (How Malthus, in the end, was proved wrong. The Industrial Revolution as an escape from Malthusian constraints). - Is California the measure of all things global?: a rejoinder to Ricardo Duchesne, World History Connected, a so-called e-journal, vol. 2, issue 2. The text, written on invitation, is 12,000 words and contains a reaction to Duchesne s review of my Via Peking back to Manchester. Britain, the Industrial Revolution, and China. - In gesprek met Peer Vries, in: Leo Noordegraaf, ed., Waarover spraken zij? Economische geschiedbeoefening in Nederland omstreeks het jaar 2000 (Amsterdam 2006) An interview with me about global history. - A world of striking differences. State and economy in early modern Britain and China, Nankai Economic Journal (2007) 4, 73-92, in Chinese. - A review of Christopher Mills Isett, State, peasant, and merchant in Qing Manchuria, EH.Net Economic History Services, Aug URL: 2,800 words. All publications since October 2007 when I became professor in Vienna - A review of Hans-Heinrich Nolte, Weltgeschichte. Imperien, Religionen und Systeme Jahrhundert (Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2005) October 2007, 4,700 words. - A review of John Darwin, After Tamerlane. The global history of empire since 1405 (London 2007) in: British Scholar 1, 1 (2008) The Industrial Revolution in: Encyclopaedia of the Modern World (Oxford University Press 2008) Volume 4, The California School and beyond: how to study the Great Divergence? Journal für Entwicklungspolitik / Austrian Journal of Development Studies 24, 4 (2008) ed., Global History. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften / Austrian Journal of History 20, 2 (Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen 2009). - Editorial, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften / Austrian Journal of History 20, 2 (Insbruck, Vienna, Bozen 2009) 5-22.

4 - Global economic history: a survey, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften / Austrian Journal of History 20, 2 (2009) An interview with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften / Austrian Journal of History 20, 2 (2009) A world of surprising resemblances? in: The role of the state in the Great Divergence. Special Issue of Leidschrift. Leiden Historical Journal (2009) Zur politischen Ökonomie des Tees. Was uns Tee über die englische und chinesische Wirtschaft der Frühen Neuzeit sagen kann (Vienna 2009) 161 pages. - a Chinese translation, with a new Introduction of seven pages of my 2003 book Via Peking back to Manchester. Britain, the Industrial Revolution, and China (Beijing 2009) 143 pages. - The California School and beyond: how to study the Great Divergence? History Compass 8 (2010) This is a revised version of the article with the same title that appeared earlier in Journal für Entwicklungspolitik / Austrian Journal of Development Studies, 24, 4 (2008) a review article of Jürgen Osterhammel, Die Verwandlung der Welt. Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts (München 2009) in Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. 20, 6 (2010) Potentiale einer Industrienation, China und Großbritannien Wirtschaft im Vergleich, Damals. Das Magazin für Geschichte 43, 1 (2011) Wirtschaftswachstum in Europa, in: Markus Cerman a.o. eds., Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Europa (Innsbruck, Wien, Bozen 2011) Europa und die Welt, in: Markus Cerman a.o. eds., Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Europa (Innsbruck, Wien, Bozen 2011) Global economic history in The Oxford History of Historical Writing. Volume V (Oxford 2011) This is an adapted version of my Global economic history: a survey, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften / Austrian Journal of History 20, 2 (2009) A paperback edition of this book has been published in De Tweede Republiek en de Burgeroorlog, (The Second Republic and the Civil War, ) in: Raymond Fagel and Eric Storm, eds., Het land van Don Quichot. De Spanjaarden en hun geschiedenis (Amsterdam 2011) Het Spanje van Franco (Franco s Spain) in: Raymond Fagel and Eric Storm, eds., Het land van Don Quichot. De Spanjaarden en hun geschiedenis (Amsterdam 2011) Ein ferner Spiegel: der Qianlong-Kaiser in: Bernd Sösemann, ed., Friedrich der Große in Europa gefeiert und umstritten (Stuttgart 2012) A review of Ian Morris, Why the West rules - for now. The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future, Journal of Global History 7, 1 (2012) , 3,200 words.

5 - Europe and the rest: Braudel on capitalism in: Guillaume Garner and Matthias Middell, eds., Aufbruch in die Weltwirtschaft. Braudel wiedergelesen (Leipzig 2012) The text is a revised and substantially lengthened translation of my Europa en de rest: Braudel over het kapitalisme. - Die Staatsfinanzen Chinas und Großbritanniens im langen 18. Jahrhundert. Ein Vergleich in: Peter Rauscher, Andrea Serles, Thomas Winkelbauer, eds., Das "Blut des Staatskörpers". Forschungen zur Finanzgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, Historische Zeitschrift. Beiheft 56 (Munich 2012) The article has also been published, in English, as a working paper on the website of the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science Working Papers No. 167/12 - Un monde de ressemblances surprenantes? in: Jean-Claude Daumas, ed., L'histoire économique en mouvement: entre héritage et renouvellement (Presses Universitaires Septentrion, Villeneuve d Ascq 2012) A revised, updated and extended version of my A world of surprising resemblances? - Challenges, (non-)responses, and politics: A review of Prasannan Parthasarathi, Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not: Global economic divergence, , Journal of World History 23, 1 (2012) Does wealth entirely depend on inclusive institutions and pluralist politics? A review of Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why nations fail. The origins of power, prosperity and poverty in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 9, 3 (2012) The text has also been published, online, on request, as a working paper for The Other Canon Foundation, Norway, and the Technology Governance Program at Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) Estonia and in Ensayos de Economia 43, julio/ deciembre 2013, , an e- journal of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. - One chapter in Economic globalization from the perspective of history: The first economic globalization and China, in Chinese (Zhejiang University Press 2012) Writing the history of the global and the state in: Maxine Berg, ed., Writing the history of the global: Challenges for historians in the twenty-first century (British Academy Publications Oxford 2013) Decline of the West - Rise of the East?, Journal of Modern European History 13, 3 (2013) Why economies are never at rest, Leidschrift. Historisch Tijdschrif 28, 2 (2013) Ursprünge des modernen Wirtschaftswachstums. England, China und die Welt in der Frühen Neuzeit (Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht Göttingen 2013) 541 pages. I wrote the text in English as Escaping Poverty. The origins of modern economic growth.

6 - Escaping poverty. The origins of modern economic growth (Vienna and Göttingen 2013) 516 pages. Bringing labour back in. Reflections on Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly, Worthy efforts: attitudes towards work and workers in preindustrial Europe and on the origins of modern economic growth, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 11, 1 (2014) Encounters between Europe and the World, , an article in an e-book, published by the Council of Europe in May State, economy and the Great Divergence. Great Britain and China, 1680s to 1850s (Bloomsbury Publishing London) VII and 506 pages. Replies to my commentators, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 12, 2 (2015) A response to the comments of 9 colleagues on my Escaping poverty. The origins of modern economic growth. ACCEPTED: The state, a chapter in the Routledge Handbook for History and Globalization, to appear in 2016, 11,000 words. ACCEPTED: Economic reasons of state in Qing China: a brief comparative overview in: Philipp Rössner, ed., Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy: Economic Reasons of State, in the Explorations in Economic History Series published by Routledge, to appear in 2016, 9,000 words. I have been asked to and accepted to write : the chapter Europe in the world economy in: Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy, eds., Global economic history, , to be published by Bloomsbury PLC in : a state of the art-overview for the Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke-Gesellschaft on the debates on the Great Divergence sometime in An abbreviated, adapted version of this text will be published in the Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. I have signed a contract with Bloomsbury Publishing London to write a book on Japan and the Great Divergence. The manuscript is due April The big underlying theme of my work has been and will continue to be the origins of modern economic growth: comparisons and connections. To put it in Moses Abramovitz s terms what interests me is the problem of catching up, forging ahead and falling behind in economic history. What caused the emergence and continuation of the Great Divergence between rich and poor nations? Current academic functions and distinctions Peer Vries, outside

7 Vienna -I will become Fellow of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam sometime in I will become Distinguished Visiting Professor at Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University Beijing for the academic year. I am: - member of the Academia Europaea - and till summer 2010 member of the Steering Committee of the Section Archaeology & History of that academy. - member of the team that organizes and gives the Research Design Courses of the European graduate School for Training in Economic and social-historical Research. (ESTER). - member of the steering committee of the Karl-Lamprecht-Gesellschaft / ENIUGH, European Network In Universal and Global History. - editor of The Library of Economic History, a peer-reviewed book series that publishes monographs and edited volumes on international aspects of economic history and case studies of an exemplary nature for the international scholarly debate. The series is published by Brill Leiden. Since March 2013 I am the sole editor. - - member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Global History published by Cambridge University Press and LSE. - member of the Editorial Board of the Global Economic History Series that is published by Brill Leiden. - member of the Editorial Board of Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, published on behalf of the Karl-Lamprecht-Gesellschaft and the European Network In Universal and Global History. - member of the Editorial Board of The Medieval History Journal. - Austrian representative in the International Economic History Association - member of the Jury of the Jan Lucassen Award (three members), an award for the best paper presented by a PhD student at the European Social Science History Conference in Vienna, April member of the Jury for the International Research Award in Global History (six members) jointly advertised for 2015 by the Department of History and the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in Global Context at Heidelberg University, the Institute for European Global Studies in Basel and the Laureate Research Program in International History at the University of Sydney.

8 Current and past academic functions and distinctions, in Vienna I am Member of the Professorenkurie and of the Fakultätskonferenz. I have been Vize-Dekan der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät ; Speaker of the Professorenkurie ( ) and Member of the Studienkonferenz ; Member of the Doktoratsbeirat, all at Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. On top of that, I was member of the of the Curriculare Arbeitsgruppe zur Überarbeitung der Mastercurricula Geschichte and of the Curricular-AG des Masterstudienplans Internationale Entwicklung and Speaker of the Forschungsschwerpunkt Globalgeschichte. I have been member of six Berufungskommissionen at Vienna University, one at the WU in Vienna and one in Salzburg and have been elected chair of two in Vienna. I wrote Gutachten for two Berufungskommissionen for professor positions at the University of Vienna, and for a position of Junior Professor in Konstanz, and for several PhDs and was in several Habilitationskomissionen. I have been: - member of the European Research Council Advanced Grants Evaluation Panel, The Study of the Human Past for member of the Expertpanel Cult3: History, History of Arts and Archaeology of FWO (Flanders Organisation of Scientific Research) in from 2008 till 2013 Chairman of the International Board of Advisers of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study, Section Modern History. - from 2010 till 2013 External reviewer of the Global History and Culture Centre of the University of Warwick. - from 2007 till 2012 Member of the European Research Council Advanced Grant Evaluation Panel SH6: the study of the human past. - from January 2005 till march 2011 editor and co-founder of the Journal of Global History, published by the Cambridge University Press and the London School of Economics and Political Science. I did the editing together with Professor William G. Clarence-Smith (School of Oriental and African Studies at London) and Professor Kenneth Pomeranz (University of California, Irvine). - guest-professor of economic history, for a period of five years, beginning winter 2005, at the Nankai University School of Economics in Tianjin China. - member of the Editorial Board of Europäische Geschichte Online, a project of the Institut für Europäische Geschichte der Universität Mainz und das Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften der Universität Trier - member and convenor of the Global Economic History Network (GEHN), a three-

9 year programme funded by a Leverhulme Trust Grant, titled: A Millennium of Material Progress. I ran this network together with Professor Patrick O Brien, London School of Economics and Political Science, Professor Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California at Irvine, and Professor Kaoru Sugihara, University of Osaka Japan. At the moment we are looking for new funding. - chair of the teaching committee and co-ordinator of the teaching programme of the Dutch research School N.W. Posthumus for economic and social history. - visiting academic fellow for the first term of the academic year at the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. - associate editor of the Encyclopaedia of World History, published by Berkshire Publishing Group Ll.C in L.J. Rogier professor of comparative world history at the University of Nijmegen, for the period of September 2001 till September editor of Itinerario. European Journal of Overseas History The journal is now, more appropriately, called, Itinerario. International Journal on the history of European Expansion and Global Interaction. - Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the humanities and social sciences, during the academic year editor of Leidschrift, a historical journal published at the Department of History, Leiden University, for the period Since September 2007 I have acted as reviewer and written reports for: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung; University of Amsterdam, Australian Economic History Review; Bloomsbury Publishing; Brill Publishers; Cambridge University Press; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; The Economic and Social Research Council of the UK; European Research Council (Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants); Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies; FWO (Research Foundation Flanders); The Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs; Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel; Universität Innsbruck; Journal of Institutional Economics; Itinerario; The Leverhulme Trust; Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences; NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research); The New York University Abu Dhabi Institute; Oxford University Press; Princeton University Press; Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ), the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences; Routledge Publishers; Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis; Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht; Volkswagen Stiftung; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik

10 Lectures and Comments: only those on personal invitation and paid for by the host institution Since I started working for Vienna University September September. I participated as senior lecturer in the Research Design Course for PhD. students from several European countries at the Sorbonne Paris, on invitation of ESTER Network for Economic and Social History. 9 November. I gave the lecture New views on The Great Divergence in Kristiansand Norway at the Agder University. I was invited by the History Department there. 21 December. I gave a lecture in the Honours Course of the History Department of the University of Leiden Why did China not industrialize during the nineteenth century? I was invited by the Department January. I held a lecture at the Nederlands Instituut in Griekenland in co-operation with the University of Athens, in Athens, Writing history in a globalising world. I was invited by the institute. 21 und 22 March. I held two lectures on invitation by the Institute for Economic History in Geneva, What is going on in global history? and The contribution of the periphery to European economic development. 30 April. I held my inaugural lecture in Vienna Zur politischen Ökonomie des Tees: Was uns Tee über die englische und chinesische Wirtschaft der Frühen Neuzeit sagen kann. 5 July. I held a lecture during the Second European Congress of World and Global History. World Orders in Global History in Dresden A world of striking differences. I also chaired a session August. I gave the Final Comments at the conference Empires und Emporia in Leiden. I was invited by the organisers. 1-4 September. I was senior lecturer during the Research Design Course for PhD students from several European countries in Budapest. I was invited by Ester Network for Economic and Social History. 18 September. I held a lecture at the Österreichischer Historikertag, Sankt Pölten, China, Japan und Europa im 18. Jahrhundert: ein Wirtschaftsvergleich. I was invited by the organisers.

11 2 October. I held a lecture at the die Deutsche Historikertage, Dresden, Wirtschaftliche Ungleichheit in historischer Perspektive. I was invited by the organisers of one panel of the Conference. 7 November. I held a lecture at Agder University in Kristiansand Norway New perspectives on the Rise of the West. I was invited by the History Department. 20 November. I held a lecture for students Europastudien of the Technical University Dresden Gibt s es ein Europäischer Sonderweg?. I was invited by the professors of the Department November. I held a lecture at the conference To what extent is colonialism a uniquely Western phenomenon? Kolonialismus und europäisches Selbstverständnis. Round Table Debate. Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio Italy. I organised the conference and acquired the funding. 4 December. I held a lecture for students and teachers of Department of History at Brussels Free University, in Brussels, The California School and beyond: how to study the Great Divergence. I was invited by the professors of the Department. 13 December. I held a lecture at the conference Economic and Social History: New Perspectives and Empirical Research, Rethymon University Crete, Comparing and connecting economic growth and its absence on a global scale. I was invited by the organisers. 21 December. I held a lecture for the Honours Course of the Department of History at Leiden University Why did China not industrialise in the nineteenth century?. I was invited the Department February. I held a lecture for students and teachers at the Institute for History at Groningen University, the Netherlands, Similar but yet quite different: the economies of China and Britain in the early modern era. I was invited by the Institute of History of Groningen University. 11 March. I held a class An introduction to global economic history, for students doing Intercultural Studies, for four hours, on invitation of the University Krems, Austria 30 March. I held a lecture Bringing the state back in: the state and economic crisis. I was invited by the Rijks Opleidings Instituut, (An institute that trains Dutch government officials) The Hague, The Netherlands. 6-9 April. I gave a four days course for students of the Honours Class of the History Department of Leiden University, called The West and the Rest, I was invited by the Department. 14 April. I held one of the Tsinghua Global Vision Lectures in Beijing China, Recent perspectives on the Great Divergence. I was invited by the University

12 15 April. I held a lecture at the Nankai School of Economics, Nankai University, Tjianjin China, Mercantilism and agrarian paternalism: a comparison of the economic policies of the British and the Qing government in the early modern era. I was invited by the School. 17 April. I held a lecture at the Nankai School of Economics, Nankai University, Tjianjin China, The industrial revolution as an energy revolution. I was invited by the School. 29 April. I held the lecture The Spanish Civil War at the Department of History of Leiden University. I was invited by the Department. 11 May. I gave a one-day course for the Pädagogische Hochschule Wien, Vienna, on the subject Warum sind manche Länder arm und andere reich? Aspekte globaler Wirtschaftsgeschichte. I was invited by the Pädagogische Hochschule. 19 May. I held a lecture at a conference organised by students of the Department of History Leiden University on The role of the state in the Great Divergence. That was also the title of my lecture. I was invited by the organisers. 22 May. I gave the General comments at the conference Writing the history of the global in London. I was invited by the British Academy. 26 June. I held a lecture on The California School and beyond: how to study the Great Divergence in London. I was invited by the Department of Economic History of the London School of Economics and Political Science July. I was senior lecturer during the Research Design Course in Barcelona for PhD Students from several European countries on invitation by the ESTER Network for Economic and Social History. 3-7 August. I participated in a panel on the work of Giovanni Arrighi at the XV. World Economic History Conference in Utrecht. 23 September. I held a lecture Eine vergleichende Analyse der Staatsfinanzen Chinas und Großbritanniens im langen 18. Jahrhundert in Vienna at the conference Das Blut des Staatskörpers. I was invited by the organisers October. I held a lecture at the conference Early modern state (building) in Asia and Europe comparison, transfer and entanglement in Heidelberg, State building in Eastern Asia and Western Europe. I was invited by the Cluster Asia and Europe in a global context. 6 November. I held a lecture at Agder University Kristiansand Norway, The Great Divergence, resources and institutions. I was invited by the History Department November. I was commentator at the conference Hitler s Europe. New perspectives on occupation in Vienna. I was invited by the organisers. 20 November. I gave a lecture at the Humbold Universität Berlin, Zur politischen Ökonomie des Tees. Was uns Tee über die englische und chinesische Wirtschaft der

13 Frühen Neuzeit sagen kann. I was invited by the Professor of Economic History at that University. 3-5 December. I give the Final Comments at a conference in Heidelberg of the Cluster Asia and Europe in a global context. I was invited by the organisers. 15 December. I held a lecture for the students of the Honours Course of the Department of History of Leiden University, The economies of China and Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I was invited by the Department January. I held the lecture Reconstructing the past vs. the narrativist claims, at the colloquium Exploring new vistas in the historiography of science at Leiden University. I was invited by the organisers. 4 February. I held the lecture, A world of striking differences. State and economy in early modern Europe and China in Freiburg Germany. I was invited by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study, Section Modern History, Freiburg Germany. 9 March. I held the lecture, The Great Divergence und das Mittelalter at the conference Europas Aufstieg als Problem. Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy. I was invited by the organisers April. I acted as commentators in three panels at European Social Science History Conference in Ghent Belgium. 23 April. I held a lecture and a three hours seminar Die Industrielle Revolution: ein internationaler Vergleich at a Seminar of the Dr. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Armut und Wohlstand der Weltregionen. Ein Blick in die Geschichte der Weltwirtschaft, Bonn. I was invited by the organisers. 18 May. I held a lecture for the Honours Course of the Department of History of Leiden University The Great Divergence. I was invited by the Department. 22 und 24 May. I held two lectures at the Beihan University Beijing: The role of the state in economic development in Europe from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries and The role of China in the global economy of the long eighteenth century. I was invited by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. 3 June I held two lectures at the seminar Useful and reliable knowledge and the Great Divergence at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London. I was invited by the organisers. 9 September. I held the lecture Is there something peculiar to the European knowledge system? in Leuven. I was invited by the Academia Europaea. 22 October. I held the lecture What is going on in global history? in Lyon. I was invited by the French Association of Economic Historians.

14 5 November. I was commentator at the roundtable Profile Area Global Interactions, University Leiden. I was invited by the University of Leiden to comment on its new research project in global history. 19 November. I held a lecture in Kristiansand Norway at Agder University, The Great Divergence, resources and institutions. I was invited by the History Department November. I was senior lecturer in the Research Design Course for PhD Students from several European countries in Vienna. I was invited by the Ester Network for Economic and Social History. 3 December. I held a lecture for Honours Course students of the Department of History of the University of Leiden The economies of China and Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I was invited by the department March. I held the lecture: The Great Divergence: warum England und nicht China im 19. Jahrhundert industrialisierte. I was invited by the Verein zur Förderung von Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte in Vienna. 14 March. I held the lecture: The Great Divergence between Western Europa and China in the nineteenth century. I was invited by the University of Leuven Belgium. 25 March. I held the lecture: Was trotzdem einzigartig an Europa ist: Europas einzigartige Bedeutung für die Moderne at the conference Europa und die Moderne im langen 18. Jahrhundert in Hamburg. I was invited by the organisers April. I held a lecture, gave a comment, participated in a panel and chaired two panels at the Third European Congress on World and Global History in London. 27 May. I held a lecture Modern economic growth for students and staff of the History Department at the University of Leiden. 8 June. I held the lecture Reis und Weisen. Agrarsysteme in China und Großbritannien im 18. Jahrhundert in St Pölten. I was invited by the Rural History Forum June. I was, during one week, lecturer and supervisor at the World History Dissertation Workshop, Pittsburgh, USA. 31 August / 2 September. I made the Closing statements at the conference Servants and administrators: from the court to the provinces in Leiden. I was invited by the organisers of the Department of History at the University of Leiden. 4 November. I presented the paper Challenges, (non)responses and politics. A comment on Prasannan Parthasarathi, Why Europe grew rich and Europe did not at a workshop at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London. I was invited by the organisers.

15 17 November. I held the lecture, Friedrich der Grosse ( ) und der Qianlong Kaiser ( ) - parallele Leben? at the Conference Spiegelungen. Friedrich der Große in neuen Perspektiven in Vienna. I was invited by the organisers. 18 November. I held the lecture The role of the state in early modern economic development. Some comparisons, at the University of Kristiansand Norway. I was invited by the Department of History. 9 December. I gave the lecture The origins of modern economic growth in a threehours seminar in the Honours Course of the History Department of the University Leiden. I was invited by that Department. 20 December. Staat, Staatsfinanzen und Great Divergence, lecture in the series, Signaturen der Weltgesellschaft at the University Bielefeld. I was invited by the University Bielefeld January. I held the lecture What will be history in the future? on the first Symposium for Dutch History Teachers, Den Bosch, the Netherlands. I was invited by the organisers. 5 April. Public finances and Great Divergence: a comparison of Britain and China in the long eighteenth century, lecture at the Department of Economic and Social History University Utrecht, the Netherlands. I was invited by the Department. 8 May. Eine Globalgeschichte des Tees, lecture on invitation by the Verein Zur Förderung von Studien zur Interkulturellen Geschichte, Vienna. 11 May. I held the lecture Modern economic growth, for the Honours Course of the Department of History of Leiden University. I was invited by the Department. 1 June. I held the lecture State formation and economic growth in East and West, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I was invited by the Department of Economic History, London. 23 June. I held the lecture Is there an early modern global economy?, during the Conference Tertium datur: Das Dritte in der Geschichte, , University Zürich. I was invited by the organisers. 27 July - 5 August. I was lecturer und supervisor at the World History Dissertation Workshop, Boston, USA September. I will be Senior Lecturer during the Research Design Course for PhDs in Ghent Belgium. I was invited by ESTER Network for Economic and Social History. 27 September. Die Enzyklopaedie der Neuzeit: Globale Interaktion. I gave my Comments in a panel at the Deutsche Historiker Tage Mainz. I was invited by the organisers.

16 29 September. Globalgeschichtliche Perspektiven in der Geschichtsdidaktik, Lecture on Zweites Internationales Symposium der Gesellschaft für Geschichtsdidaktik Österreich, Salzburg. I was invited by the organisers. 9 November. Early modern economic globalisation, Lecture at University Kristiansand Norway. I was invited by the Department of History. 23 November. The origins of modern economic growth, a lecture for the students of the Honours Course of the Department of History of Leiden University. I was invited by the Department. 3 December. Globalgeschichte: eine unmögliche Notwendigkeit?, a lecture at the University of Augsburg on invitation of the Institute for European Cultural History and the Historical Institute of the University of Augsburg, Germany 15 December. The role of the fiscal-naval state and of useful and reliable knowledge: Patrick O'Brien s fundamental contribution to the Great Divergence Debate, a lecture at Globalizing Economic History: A Conference on the Occasion of Patrick O'Brien's 80th Birthday, Nuffield College Oxford. I was invited by the organisers January. Publizieren in den Geisteswissenschaften. A lecture in Vienna. I was invited by the Center for Doctoral Studies Research Services and Career Development University of Vienna February. I participated in two panels and chaired two at the conference The production and circulation of printed books in the Occident and Orient, from the accession of the Tang dynasty to the First Industrial Revolution. The conference took place in London, at the British Academy March. I gave the introductory presentation Encounters between Europe and the World on the Seminar on Europe and the World in Strasbourg. I was invited by the Council of Europe 15 April. I gave a lecture, in Dutch, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels in Brussels for students and staff of the Department of History on my forthcoming book Escaping poverty. The origins of modern economic growth. 19 April. I gave a seminar of three hours for the Honours Course of the Department of History of Leiden University in Leiden on the origins of modern economic growth. 6 and 7 May. I gave two lectures at Tsinghua University in Beijing. I was invited by the Department of History. 9 May. I gave a lecture at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. I was invited by the Institute for World History. 9 May. I gave a lecture at Beihang University Beijing. I was invited by the School of Humanities and the Social Sciences.

17 13 May. I gave a lecture about Communicating Research at the Spring School Communicating Research in Gols Austria, I was invited by Center for Doctoral Studies Research Services and Career Development University of Vienna May. I visited the Global History and Culture Centre in Warwick UK as external reviewer. 6 July. I gave a lecture at the Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe, in Vienna July. I participated, on invitation by the Rectorate, in a periodical evaluation of doctoral programmes at the University of Zagreb in Zagreb. 19 September. I gave a lecture during a conference in Wroclaw on invitation of the Academia Europaea. 7 October. I participated in a Workshop on China in der deutschen Hochschullandschaft, on Invitation by the Volkswagenstiftung in Hannover. 18 October. I gave a seminar during an entire day at a Fortbildungsveranstaltung for teachers in Innsbruck. 22 October. I gave a keynote lecture on history in a globalizing age on invitation by the Research Council of Norway in Oslo October. I participated, on invitation by the Rectorate, in a periodical evaluation of doctoral programmes at the University of Zagreb in Zagreb. 1 November. I gave a so-called Gravensteen Lecture on behalf of the Leiden University research profiles Global Interactions (LGI) and Asian Modernities and Traditions (AMT) in Leiden. 7-8 November. I gave two lectures, one on the role of culture in economic development and one on European exceptionalism in the early modern era, at Kristiansand University, Kristiansand, Norway November. I participated, on invitation, as expert in an ESTER course in Verona. 9 December. I gave a lecture, in German, about my book Escaping poverty at the Verlagsabend of Vienna University Press, Vienna I have been invited to participate in the Gaidar Forum in Moscow on January 17, 2014, but could not accept the invitation. 3 February. I gave a lecture about my book Escaping poverty for members of the Department of Historical Sciences at the University of Groningen, Groningen

18 10 March. I gave a lecture How did global economic inequality emerge during the Global Studies Seminar, Ghent 26 March I gave a class for students taking a course in Global History at the University of Salzburg, Salzburg 10 April I gave a lecture in the course China and the world since ca at the University of Bergen Norway 16 April I gave the Opening-lecture of the Seminar of the Department of Economic History at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin I have been invited to May, to give a lecture The rise of Sinocentric history in the West at a conference organised by Academia Europaea in collaboration with Tsinghua University, Beijing Humanities, Social Sciences, Globalization, and China, Beijing Tsinghua University, but it was impossible to combine this with other obligations 16 May 2014, I gave a brief talk at the workshop Transformative Exchange: Art, Science, and Technology in Italy and East Asia in the 17th Century on China as the global silver sink in the early modern world at the invitation of the Institute for Art History, Vienna 5-6 June 2014, I gave a talk and participated in a panel debate on a conference of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Economic and Social Historians on The pre-industrial Low Countries in a world history perspective in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands June 2014, I have been invited to participate in the Flying University of Transnational Humanities at Pittsburgh University, but because of other obligations I had to decline. Pittsburgh. 24 June 2014, I gave a talk Great Britain and China in the long eighteenth century: a comparative analysis of state- and nation-building, for the Institut für Sozialanthropologie der ÖAW in the Augustiner Chorherren-Stift, Vorau Austria July 2014, I participated as commentator in a workshop on invitation of the URKEW Project of the London School of Economics and Political Science in London September 2014, I acted as respondent at a conference organised by Ghent University called Whither with the early modern state? Fifteenth-century state formations across Eurasia. Connections, divergences and comparisons, Ghent. 24-September 2014, I gave a lecture New perspectives on the paths and patterns of economic growth in Chinese and European History, Deutscher Historikertag Göttingen. 3 October 2014, I gave a four-hour seminar in the Program Megatrends I: Von der europäischen Expansion zur globalen Gleichzeitigkeit at Zurich University, Zürich. I have been invited to participate in a small workshop about Inequality and Capitalism on 8. October 2014 in Berlin where Prof. Deirdre McCloskey would present and defend

19 her publications on the history of capitalism at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies. I had to decline because of obligations in Vienna. 10 October 2014, I gave a lecture on the Great Divergence for students of the Research Master for Economic and Social History of the Posthumus Institute (The Netherlands and Flanders) in Leiden. I also gave a brief introduction there for a book launch October, I participated, on invitation, as expert in an ESTER course in Frankfurt. 23 October, I gave a lecture about the history of capitalism in Western Europe and China for the Arbeitskreis Moderne Sozialgeschichte in Bochum. 7 and 8 November 2014, I gave two lectures at Agder University Kristiansand. 13 November 2014, I gave a lecture at the DoktorandInnen Konferenz Globalgeschichte, Vienna. 21 November With three colleagues have organized an interdisciplinary workshop State-Nation Economy that was held in the Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik. I made the introductory comments Vienna December 2014, I chaired during the Conference China in the Global Academic Landscapes, funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung in Hannover. I have been invited to give a lecture at the French Historical Institute in Rome on , but could not accept the invitation because of obligations in Vienna I have been invited to participate in a conference on Economic outcomes flowing from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 9-10 April in Madrid but could not accept the invitation for personal reasons. I have been invited to give a lecture at a conference on global economic history April organized by Beihang and Renmin Universities Beijing but could not accept the invitation because of obligations in Vienna June, I gave a lecture and participated in a round table debate on my Escaping poverty, organised by the Posthumus Institute for economic and social historians in the Netherlands and Flanders, held at the Free University in Brussels June 2015, I received an invitation to give a lecture at a Workshop with the title Globalisation and uncertainty, held at Nuffield College, as a collaboration between Nuffield College and the Oxford Centre of Global History in Oxford, but could not accept the invitation because of obligations in Vienna June 2015, I gave a one-day Seminar with Prof Kocka at the Historische Kolleg of the Goethe-Universität in Bad Homburg and Frankfurt, Varianten des Kapitalismus - Der atlantische Raum und Asien. I received an invitation to stay as a Fellow at the Kolleg for a fortnight but had to decline because of other obligations.

20 10-12 September 2015, I gave a lecture When and how did the Great Global Inequality emerge? during the conference The world history of wealth and income inequality, a coproduction of the Universities of Stanford and Vienna, organized by Bernhard Palme, Walter Scheidel and me. The Conference was in Vienna September 2015, I gave a lecture And what if in many respects Europe was central? at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at the Conference Beyond the Eurocentrism debate in Halle (Saale) Germany. 9 October 2015, I will give a lecture on The Great Divergence for students of the Research Master Global Economic History of the Posthumus Institute for Economic and Social History in Amsterdam. 22 October 2015, I will give the inaugural lecture for the opening of the academic year of the Master s Degree in World History at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona October, I will participate, on invitation, as expert in an ESTER course in Gothenburg. 5-6 November 2015, I will participate in the Workshop Big questions, big data at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. 13 November 2015, I will give a lecture for staff and students of the History Department at Agder University Kristiansand with as title: The State and the Great Divergence, Kristiansand Norway. 16 November I will give a class The role of the military in the Great Divergence for students of Wake Forest University, in Vienna. 3-5 December 2015, I will attend a Workshop on Global Companies organized by Dr. Adam Clulow, the winner of the International Award in Global History, in Heidelberg and 20 May 2016, I will give my comments on the chapter Living standards in the long-run: The place of Central, East and South-East Europe in the Divergence debate by Stephen Broadberry and Mikolaj Malinowski in: Matthias Morys, ed., Economic history of Central, East and South-East Europe, 1800 to the present to be published by Routledge. The conference where I will do so is in Regensburg. 27 and 28 May 2016, I will present my book chapter in the book Economic change in global history, edited by Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London. 28 June 2016, I will give a lecture for staff members of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. October 2016, I will give a four-hour seminar in the Program Megatrends I: Von der europäischen Expansion zur globalen Gleichzeitigkeit at Zurich University, Zürich.