demand for such luxuries shaped the world." …

drugs -- Transplanting -- The economics of violence -- Making modern markets -- World trade, industrialization, and … deindustrialization -- Manufacturing since World War II -- Epilogue: the world economy in the twenty-first century -- Selected …

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 …