Format:
1 online resource (447 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520921313
Content:
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 economy. Resorting to import substitution and export promotion in the world market, they became Newly Industrializing Economies and tipped the global economic balance to the West. That is precisely what East Asia is doing today, Frank points out, to recover its traditional dominance. As a result, the "center" of the world economy is once again moving to the "Middle Kingdom" of China. Anyone interested in Asia, in world systems and world economic and social history, in international relations, and in comparative area studies, will have to take into account Frank's exciting reassessment of our global economic past and future.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction to Real World History vs. Eurocentric Social Theory -- Holistic Methodology and Objectives -- Globalism, not Eurocentrism -- Smith, Marx, and Weber -- Contemporary Eurocentrism and Its Critics -- Economic Historians -- Limitations of Recent Social Theory -- Outline of a Global Economic Perspective -- Anticipating and Confronting Resistance and Obstacles -- 2. The Global Trade Carousel 1400-1800 -- An Introduction to the World Economy -- Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Antecedents -- The Columbian Exchange and Its Consequences -- Some Neglected Features in the World Economy -- World Division of Labor and Balances of Trade -- Mapping the Global Economy -- The Americas -- Africa -- Europe -- West Asia -- The Ottomans -- Safavid Persia -- India and the Indian Ocean -- North India -- Gujarat and Malabar -- Coromandel -- Bengal -- Southeast Asia -- Archipellago and Islands -- Mainland -- Japan -- China -- Population, Production, and Trade -- China in the World Economy -- Central Asia -- Russia and the Baltics -- Summary of a Sinocentric World Economy -- 3. Money Went Around the World and Made the World Go Round -- World Money: Its Production and Exchange -- Micro- and Macro-Attractions in the Global Casino -- Dealing and Playing in the Global Casino -- The Numbers Game -- Silver -- Gold -- Credit -- How Did the Winners Use Their Money? -- The Hoardmg Thesis -- Inflation or Production in the Quantity Theory of Money -- Money Expanded the Frontiers of Settlement and Production -- In India -- In China -- Elsewhere in Asia -- 4. The Global Economy: Comparisons and Relations -- Quantities: Population, Production, Productivity, Income, and Trade -- Population, Production, and Income -- Productivity and Competitiveness -- World Trade 1400-1800.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520214743
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520214743
Language:
English
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