This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal … characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy. The “regional trade zone of modern Asia” was debated in the 1980s …. Since then, Japanese historians of the socioeconomic history of Asia have explored how the traditional trade relations that …

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 …