Reorient

Global Economy in the Asian Age

By: Andre Gunder Frank

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Paperback | 31 July 1998 | Edition Number 1

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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 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.

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"A hugely important contribution to the critique of Eurocentric history. . . . This book is powerful and important. Read it."--"Journal of Historical Geography

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Preface
Introduction to Real World History vs. Eurocentric Social Theory	p. 1
Holistic Methodology and Objectives	p. 1
Globalism, not Eurocentrism	p. 8
Outline of a Global Economic Perspective	p. 34
Anticipating and Confronting Resistance and Obstacles	p. 38
The Global Trade Carousel 1400-1800	p. 52
An Introduction to the World Economy	p. 52
World Division of Labor and Balances of Trade	p. 63
India and the Indian Ocean	p. 84
Southeast Asia	p. 92
Money Went Around the World and Made the World Go Round	p. 131
World Money: Its Production and Exchange	p. 131
How Did the Winners Use Their Money?	p. 151
The Global Economy: Comparisons and Relations	p. 165
Quantities: Population, Production, Productivity, Income, and Trade	p. 166
Qualities: Science and Technology	p. 185
Mechanisms: Economic and Financial Institutions	p. 205
Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory	p. 226
Simultaneity Is No Coincidence	p. 228
Doing Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory	p. 230
Why Did the West Win (Temporarily)?	p. 258
Is There a Long-Cycle Roller Coaster?	p. 260
The Decline of the East Preceded the Rise of the West	p. 264
How Did the West Rise?	p. 276
A Global Economic Demographic Explanation	p. 297
Historiographic Conclusions and Theoretical Implications	p. 321
Historiographic Conclusions: The Eurocentric Emperor Has No Clothes	p. 322
Theoretical Implications: Through the Global Looking Glass	p. 339
References	p. 361
Index	p. 389
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