ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age
- ISBN-10
- 0520211294
- ISBN-13
- 9780520211292
- Series
- ReORIENT
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-07-01
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Andre Gunder Frank
Description
"The great virtue of this stimulating book is its relentless push to redefine our framework for thinking about the early modern economy. . . . A benchmark study."--R. Bin Wong,University of California, Irvine "Frank shows how Marx and Weber got it all wrong. A fundamental rethinking of the rise of the West and the origin of the world-system. Absolutely essential to understanding world history."--Albert Bergesen,University of Arizona "The great virtue of this stimulating book is its relentless push to redefine our framework for thinking about the early modern economy. . . . A benchmark study."--R. Bin Wong,University of California, Irvine
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