ReORIENT Global Economy in the Asian Age

Name: ReORIENT Global Economy in the Asian Age
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ISBN: 9780520214743

ISBN-10: 0520214749

ISBN-13: 9780520214743

Edition: 1999

Authors: Andre Gunder Frank

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Andre Gunder Frank asks us to ReOrient our views away from Eurocentrism--to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel, and Wallerstein. Frank explains the Rise of the West in world economic and demographic terms that relate it in a single historical sweep to the decline of the East around 1800. European states, he says, used the silver extracted from the American colonies to buy entry into an expanding Asian market that already flourished in the global…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/31/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 446
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface



Introduction to Real World History vs. Eurocentric Social Theory


Holistic Methodology and Objectives


Globalism, not Eurocentrism


Outline of a Global Economic Perspective


Anticipating and Confronting Resistance and Obstacles



The Global Trade Carousel 1400-1800


An Introduction to the World Economy


World Division of Labor and Balances of Trade


India and the Indian Ocean


Southeast Asia



Money Went Around the World and Made the World Go Round


World Money: Its Production and Exchange


How Did the Winners Use Their Money?



The Global Economy: Comparisons and Relations


Quantities: Population, Production, Productivity, Income, and Trade


Qualities: Science and Technology


Mechanisms: Economic and Financial Institutions



Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory


Simultaneity Is No Coincidence


Doing Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory



Why Did the West Win (Temporarily)?


Is There a Long-Cycle Roller Coaster?


The Decline of the East Preceded the Rise of the West


How Did the West Rise?


A Global Economic Demographic Explanation



Historiographic Conclusions and Theoretical Implications


Historiographic Conclusions: The Eurocentric Emperor Has No Clothes


Theoretical Implications: Through the Global Looking Glass


References


Index