European history. By contrast, China, India and the Islamic Middle East are regarded as inherently imperial and overcentralised … -- 4. Lessons from the history of Imperial China -- 5. Advantages of centralized and decentralized rule in Japan -- 6 …

the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and …, characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of … conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India …