"A revelatory vision of the world today, as it is seen by the rising powers of the East. "All roads used to lead to … future of a world that is changing dramatically before our very eyes. In this age of Brexit and Trump, the West is buffeted … preconceptions and see the world from a new -- and ultimately hopeful -- perspective." …

what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a 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 …

the Gupta Empire; the Abbasid Golden Age of the Islamic world and the Sung Puzzle of China during the medieval era; and …