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Overview
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.
Editorial Reviews
Harbans Mukhia
If challenging received wisdom is a trademark, this book is written as the mother of all challenges. The immense power of the book rests on the ability to provoke and force one to rethink many facets of history that have been taken for granted for a long long time. -- Harbans MukhiaSaubhik Chakabarti
ReOrient's biggest virtue: it forces the reader to at least look differently at world history- This impressive and illuminating analysis 20 sets out to challenge the mother of all orthodoxies that Europe discovered capitalism and industrialisation and that what followed and is happening and will happen is essentially a fallout of this European preeminence. -- The StatesmanProduct Details
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Meet the Author
Andre Gunder Frank, of the University of Toronto, has published more than thirty books. Most recently he coedited, with Barry Gills, World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? (1996).
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION TO REAL WORLD HISTORY VS. EUROCENTRIC SOCIAL THEORY
HOLISTIC METHODOLOGY AND OBJECTIVES
GLOBALISM, NOT EUROCENTRISM
CHAPTER OUTLINE OF A GLOBAL ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
ANTICIPATING AND CONFRONTING RESISTANCE AND OBSTACLES
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 1400-1800MONEY WENT AROUND THE WORLD AND MADE THE WORLD GO ROUND
WORLD MONEY: ITS PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE
- Micro- and Marco- Attractions in the World Casino
- Dealing and Playing in the Casino
- The Numbers Game
- Silver
- Gold
- Credit
HOW DID THE WINNERS USE THEIR MONEY?THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: COMPARISONS AND RELATIONS
QUANTITIES: POPULATION, PRODUCTION, PRODUCTIVITY, INCOME AND TRADE
- Population, Production and Income
- Productivity and Competitiveness
- World Trade 1400-1800
QUALITIES: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY- Eurocentrism Regarding Science and Technology in Asia
- Guns
- Ships
- Printing
- Textiles
- Metallurgy, Coal and Power
- Transport
- World Technological Development
MECHANISMS: ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSHORIZONTALLY INTEGRATIVE MACROHISTORY
SIMULTANEITY IS NO COINCIDENCE
DOING HORIZONTALLY INTEGRATIVE MACROHISTORY
WHY DID THE WEST WIN [TEMPORARILY] ?
UP AND DOWN THE LONG CYCLE ROLLICOASTER?
THE DECLINE OF THE EAST PRECEDED THE RISE OF THE WEST
- The Decline in India
- The Decline Elsewhere in Asia
HOW DID THE WEST RISE?- Climbing Up on Asian Shoulders
- Supply and Demand for Technological Change in the World Economy
- Supplies and Sources of Capital
A GLOBAL ECONOMIC/DEMOGRAPHIC ACCOUNTING FOR THE DECLINE OF THE EAST AND THE RISE OF THE WESTHISTORIOGRAPHIC CONCLUSIONS AND THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS
HISTORIOGRAPHIC CONCLUSIONS: THE EUROCENTRIC EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS: THROUGH THE GLOBAL LOOKING GLASS
REFERENCES CITED