ReORIENT

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Global Economy in the Asian Age

By Andre Gunder Frank

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ReORIENT abandons Eurocentric views to reveal the rise of the West as a brief interruption in an Asian-centred world history. Andre Gunder Frank challenges conventional historiography by analysing world economic and demographic trends, particularly the shift of economic dominance from East to West around 1800. The book explores how European states used American silver to integrate into Asian markets, eventually industrialising and altering the global balance. Frank highlights that East Asia's current economic strategies echo these historic shifts, signalling a return of economic power to China, the "Middle Kingdom."
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This book is ideal for serious students and scholars of world history, economics, and social theory, as well as readers interested in global power shifts and Asian economic resurgence.

Asks us to re-orient 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. This title is suitable for those interested in Asia, in world systems and world economic and social history, in international relations, and in comparative area studies.

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Eurocentrism is abandoned in this text, as the author sees the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asian-centred world. In a challenge to received historiography and social theory, the author discounts the world according to Marx, Weber and other theorists, and 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 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 industrialized economies and tipped the global economic balance to the West. This is what East Asia is doing today, the author points out, to recover its traditional dominance.

As a result, the centre of the world economy is once again moving to the Middle Kingdom of China.

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Praised as a stimulating and thoughtful work, reviewers highlight its sophisticated approach to world history and social theory. It is described as a marvelously ambitious and erudite synthesis with prophetic insight, essential reading for scholars and students of global history and economics. Various journals commend its challenges to conventional wisdom and its significant contributions to historiography and theory.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520214743

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 July 1998

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 6 maps, 3 tables

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 225.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 352

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Andre Gunder Frank Asian History Education & Reference Finance & Economics Finance & Investment History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About 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).