“Modern history, both early and late, was made by Europeans, who "built a world around Europe", as historians "know", according to Braudel. That is indeed the "knowledge" of the European historians who themselves "invented" history and then put it to good use. There is not even an inkling of suspicion that it may have been the other way around, that maybe it was the world that made Europe.” WorldHistoryEuropeEurocentrismHistoriansEuropeansFernand Braudel Book:ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age Source: ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age
“Most economic histories of the "world" not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest Europe); they neglect the participation of the productive and exchange activities of extra-European countries in the European, not to say world, process of accumulation and development. Moreover, they disregard the part that these productive and exchange relations played in the developing world system.” DevelopmentEuropeProductionExchangeEconomic HistoryCapital AccumulationWorld System Book:World Accumulation 1492-1789 Source: World Accumulation 1492-1789