John M. Hobson

Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy (eBook, PDF)

Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108895163
• Artikelnr.: 66182035

Autorenporträt

John M. Hobson is Professor of Politics & International Relations at the University of Sheffield and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has previously written eight books, including The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Taking Stock for the Journey Ahead - Mapping a New Global Political
Economy; Part I. Multicultural Origins of the First (Historical Capitalist)
Global Economy, 1500-1850: 2. Going Global 1.0: Chinese Agency in the
Making of the First Global Economy; 3. The Afro-Indian Pivot (I): Indian
Structural Power and the Global Atlantic System; 4. The Afro-Indian Pivot
(II): Entangled Agencies and Power of Africans, Indians and West Asian
Muslims; 5. Entangled Indo-European Agencies: Implications of Indian
Structural Power; 6. Indian Merchant-Financial Capitalists: Navigating
beyond the Western-centric Sea Frontier; Part II. What was Global about the
First Global Economy, 1500-c.1850?: 7. Countering the
Neoliberal/Transformationalist Rejection of the First Global Economy:
Un-veiling Global Structural Properties; 8. Countering the
Fundamentalist-Marxist Rejection of the First Global Economy: Un-veiling
Global Historical Capitalism; Part III. The First Global Economy in the
Making of Modern Industrial Capitalism, 1500-1800: 9. The Global
Atlantic-Production Driver and the Imperial Primitive Accumulation of
British Capital; 10. The Global Atlantic-Consumption Driver and British
Late-Developmental Agency in Global Uneven and Combined Development; Part
IV: Differing 'Developmental Architectures' in Differing Global Contexts in
the Second Great Divergence, 1600-1800: 11. Why Britain initiated a
Cotton-Industrialization and why India and China did not; 12. Why Britain
initiated an Iron and Steel Industrialization and why India and China did
not; Part V. Rehabilitating and Provincializing Western Imperialism:
Afro-Asians Inside and Outside the Shadow of Empire: 13. Multicultural
Origins of the Second Global Economy: Un-veiling the 'Multicultural Contact
Zone', C.1850-C.1940; 14. Varieties of Global Economy: From Historical
Capitalism to Modern Capitalism, C.1500-2020.