What People are Saying About This
Albert Bergesen
Frank gained his world wide fame by making an argument that caused a
revolution in thinking about Third World Development. Well, the same thing
is about to happen again, except this time the stakes are much higher. Now
it is the theories of the endogenous nature of change in the West that is
being challenged. The Wallersteinian world economy did not give rise to
the world-system, Frank argues, but the Afroeurasian world system gave
rise to the European world economy. To correct the historical fact is to
challenge the theoretical scaffolding of everyone from Marx to Weber to
Braudel to Wallerstein. Frank shows how [they] got it all wrong. This
book is conceptually that important. A fundamental rethinking absolutely essential to understanding world history. (Albert Bergesen, University of Arizona)
Mark Selden
A book for the millennium ... can be a landmark book that shapes
substantially the scholarship and understanding of the next
generation of researchers. It should have an immediate impact. (Mark Selden, State University of New York)
Bin Wong
The author redefines our baseline for assessing the 'rise' of Europe.
I believe this book could become a benchmark study. (Bin Wong, University of California at Irvine)
Jack Goody
This is a brave book, brave in the academic as well as the personal
sense. It insists on a completely necessary reorientation of
academic and political views. It will prove to be compulsory reading. (Jack Goody London Times Higher Education Supplement & St. Johns College, Cambridge)
Martin Lewis
ReORIENT deserves to become an instant classic. (Martin Lewis, Duke University)
Kenneth Pomeranz
This will be an extremely important book of sufficient originality
and importance to have a major impact. It could not be more ambitious. (Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California at Irvine)
Peer Vries Itinerario
Andre Gunder Frank's latest work ReORIENT:Global Economy in the Asian Age definitely is a book with a message. Its author sets out to challenge and
overturns the ideas of such influential scholars as Marx, Weber, Polanyi,
Rostow, Braudel and Wallerstein. As a matter of fact, almost everybody who
has ever touched on the subject. (Peer Vries Itinerario, University of Leiden)
Peter Perdue
Andre Gunder Frank's ReORIENT is a heroic effort to reconstruct our
conceptions of the world economy in the early modern age.
A brilliant theory - Frank's single-mided, relentless, and
compelling organic model achieves coherence and has much to offer. (Peter Perdue, Massachussetts Institute of Technology)
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