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Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy - Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier (Paperback)
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Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy - Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier (Paperback)
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Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly conflate
globalisation with Westernisation and presume that the global
economy is a pure Western-creation. Taking on the traditional
Eurocentric Big Bang theory, or the 'expansion of the West'
narrative, this book reveals the multicultural origins of
globalisation and the global economy, not so as to marginalise the
West but to show how it has long been embedded in complex
interconnections and co-constitutive interactions with non-Western
actors/agents and processes. The central empirical theme is the
role of Indian structural power that was derived from Indian cotton
textile exports. Indian structural power organised the first
(historical-capitalist) global economy between 1500 and c.1850 and
performed a vital, albeit indirect, role in the making of Western
empire, industrialisation and the second (modern-capitalist) global
economy. These textiles underpinned the complex inter-relations
between Africa, West/Central/East/Southeast Asia, the Americas and
Europe that collectively drove global economic development forward.
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