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 …

-- The Americas -- Africa -- Europe -- West Asia -- The Ottomans -- Safavid Persia -- India and the Indian Ocean -- North … India -- Gujarat and Malabar -- Coromandel -- Bengal -- Southeast Asia -- Archipellago and Islands -- Mainland -- Japan … what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory …

trading areas dramatically expanded to the shores of Asia, and a long period of harsh competition set the East India Companies … from their main base (in the best conditions). During the three centuries after Vasco de Gama had reached India, European …

underpinned the complex inter-relations between Africa, West and Central/East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Americas and Europe that …