Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy
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Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy

Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier

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Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy

Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1. Mapping a New Global Political Economy: Taking Stock for the Journey Ahead
  11. Part I: Multicultural Origins of the First (Historical Capitalist) Global Economy, 1500ā€“1850
  12. Part II: What Was Global about the First Global Economy, 1500ā€“c. 1850?
  13. Part III: Empire and the First Global Economy in the Making of Modern Industrial Capitalism, 1500ā€“1800
  14. Part IV: The Second Great Divergence, 1600ā€“1800: Differing ā€˜Developmental Architecturesā€™ in Global Contexts
  15. Part V: Rehabilitating and Provincialising Western Imperialism: Afro-Asians inside and outside the Shadow of Empire
  16. Appendix 1: Guesstimating the Size of the Trade in Indian Cotton Textiles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  17. Appendix 2: Estimating the Size of the Revenues Generated by All Atlantic-based Colonial-Related Activities that Potentially Funded British Industrial Investment
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index