what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a challenge to received historiography and social theory he … balance to the West. That is precisely what East Asia is doing today, Frank points out, to recover its traditional dominance …

"Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe … Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than … industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan …