Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy : Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier
Hobson, John M
Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy : Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2020 - 506
Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly conflate globalization with Westernization and presume that the global economy is a pure Western-creation. Taking on the traditional Eurocentric Big Bang theory, or the 'expansion of the West' narrative, this book reveals the multicultural origins of globalization and the global economy, not so as to marginalise the West but to show how it has long been embedded in complex interconnections and co-constitutive interactions with non-Western actors/agents and processes. The central empirical theme is the role of Indian structural power that was derived from Indian cotton textile exports. Indian structural power organised the first (historical-capitalist) global economy between 1500 and c.1850 and performed a vital, albeit indirect, role in the making of Western empire, industrialization and the second (modern-capitalist) global economy. These textiles underpinned the complex inter-relations between Africa, West/Central/East/Southeast Asia, the Americas and Europe that collectively drove global economic development forward.
9781108744034
Globalization
Economics - Sociological aspects
Industrialization
330.903 HOB
Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy : Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2020 - 506
Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly conflate globalization with Westernization and presume that the global economy is a pure Western-creation. Taking on the traditional Eurocentric Big Bang theory, or the 'expansion of the West' narrative, this book reveals the multicultural origins of globalization and the global economy, not so as to marginalise the West but to show how it has long been embedded in complex interconnections and co-constitutive interactions with non-Western actors/agents and processes. The central empirical theme is the role of Indian structural power that was derived from Indian cotton textile exports. Indian structural power organised the first (historical-capitalist) global economy between 1500 and c.1850 and performed a vital, albeit indirect, role in the making of Western empire, industrialization and the second (modern-capitalist) global economy. These textiles underpinned the complex inter-relations between Africa, West/Central/East/Southeast Asia, the Americas and Europe that collectively drove global economic development forward.
9781108744034
Globalization
Economics - Sociological aspects
Industrialization
330.903 HOB
