1st Edition
Reorienting the 19th Century Global Economy in the Continuing Asian Age
366 Pages
by
Routledge
366 Pages
by
Routledge
366 Pages
by
Routledge
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Andre Gunder Frank was a path-breaking scholar in several disciplines over an illustrious and contentious 50-year career. First amongst his many important works is the book ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age, which sought to correct a Euro-centric world view of the development of the global political economy. Frank passed away in April 2005 while working on this new book, a sequel to... Read more
1 Debunk Mythology, ReOrient Reality 2 Continuity and Transformation: A Biblio-Methodological Introduction 3 Worldwide Continuity More Than Change: 1750s-1810s 4 Triangles for Capital Accumulation and Entropy Dissipation 5 Late-Nineteenth-Century Triangles 6 Regional Continuity and Some Transitions: 1810s-1870s 7 Imperialism of Free Trade and Colonialism: 1870-1913 8 Regional Divisions of Costs and Benefits: 1870s-1914 9 A Prelude to a Conclusion Robert A. Denemark 10 ReOrienting the Twentieth Century
Biography
Andre Gunder Frank, Robert A. Denemark
“Andre Gunder Frank was a pioneer of the emerging field of Global History, and within it of the perspective of the world system and its history. Like all great thinkers, and all great and important intellectual currents with a lasting historical legacy, his work, though enormously extensive and impressive in its own right, was also an aspect of a much larger and longer social and intellectual current, which will carry on his legacy and all those who also follow.”
—Barry K. Gills, University of Helsinki , from the Afterword
