ReOrient : global economy in the Asian Age / Andre Gunder Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Andre Gunder, 1929-2005.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations--History.

International economic relations.

Capitalism--History.

Capitalism.

Competition, International--History.

Competition, International.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction To Real World History Vs. Eurocentric Social Theory

2. The Global Trade Carousel 1400-1800

3. Money Went Around The World And Made The World Go Round

4. The Global Economy: Comparisons And Relations

5. Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory

6. Why Did The West Win (Temporarily

7. Historiographic Conclusions And Theoretical Implications

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-387) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786613373571

9781283373579

1283373572

9780520921313

0520921313

9780585054421

0585054428

OCLC:

42922426