Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction to Real World History vs. Eurocentric Social Theory -- Holistic Methodology and Objectives -- Globalism, not Eurocentrism -- Smith, Marx, and Weber -- Contemporary Eurocentrism and Its Critics -- Economic Historians -- Limitations of Recent Social Theory -- Outline of a Global Economic Perspective -- Anticipating and Confronting Resistance and Obstacles -- 2. The Global Trade Carousel 1400-1800 -- An Introduction to the World Economy -- Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Antecedents -- The Columbian Exchange and Its Consequences -- Some Neglected Features in the World Economy -- World Division of Labor and Balances of Trade -- Mapping the Global Economy -- 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 -- China -- Population, Production, and Trade -- China in the World Economy -- Central Asia -- Russia and the Baltics -- Summary of a Sinocentric World Economy -- 3. Money Went Around the World and Made the World Go Round -- World Money: Its Production and Exchange -- Micro- and Macro-Attractions in the Global Casino -- Dealing and Playing in the Global Casino -- The Numbers Game -- Silver -- Gold -- Credit -- How Did the Winners Use Their Money? -- The Hoardmg Thesis -- Inflation or Production in the Quantity Theory of Money -- Money Expanded the Frontiers of Settlement and Production -- In India -- In China -- Elsewhere in Asia -- 4. The Global Economy: Comparisons and Relations -- Quantities: Population, Production, Productivity, Income, and Trade -- Population, Production, and Income -- Productivity and Competitiveness.

World Trade 1400-1800 -- Qualities: Science and Technology -- Eurocentrism Regarding Science and Technology in Asia -- Guns -- Ships -- Printing -- Textiles -- Metallurgy, Coal, and Power -- Transport -- World Technological Development -- Mechanisms: Economic and Financial Institutions -- Comparing and Relating Asian and European Institutions -- Global Institutional Relations -- In India -- In China -- 5. Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory -- Simultaneity Is No Coincidence -- Doing Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory -- Demographic/Structural Analysis -- A "Seventeenth-Century Crisis"? -- The 1640 Silver Crises -- Kondratieff Analysis -- The 1762-1790 Kondratieff "By' Phase: Crisis and Recessions -- A More Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory? -- 6. Why Did the West Win (Temporarily)? -- Is There a Long-Cycle Roller Coaster? -- The Decline of the East Preceded the Rise of the West -- The Decline in India -- The Decline Elsewhere in Asia -- How Did the West Rise? -- Climbing Up on Asian Shoulders -- Supply and Demand for Technological Change -- Supplies and Sources of Capital -- A Global Economic Demographic Explanation -- A Demographic Economic Model -- A High-Level Equilibrium Trap? -- The Evidence: 1500-1750 -- The 1750 Inflection -- Challenging and Reformulating the Explanation -- The Resulting Transformations in India, China, Europe, and the World -- In India -- In China -- In Western Europe -- The Rest of the World -- Past Conclusions and Future Implications -- 7. Historiographic Conclusions and Theoretical Implications -- Historiographic Conclusions: The Eurocentric Emperor Has No Clothes -- The Asiatic Mode of Production -- European Exceptionalism -- A European World-System or a Global Economy? -- 1500: Continuity or Break? -- Capitalism? -- Hegemony?.

The Rise of the West and the Industrial Revolution -- Empty Categories and Procrustean Beds -- Theoretical Implications: Through the Global Looking Glass -- Holism vs. Partialism -- Commonality/Similarity vs. Specificity/Differences -- Continuity vs. Discontinuities -- Horizontal Integration vs. Vertical Separation -- Cycles vs. Linearity -- Agency vs. Structure -- Europe in the World Economic Nutshell -- Jihad vs. McWorld in the Anarchy of the Clash of Civilizations? -- References -- Index.