| Book Review | Journal of World History, 14.4

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The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and Its Trade 1550–1900. By SCOTT LEVI. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. xiv +319 pp. $93.00 (cloth).

One of the major projects of recent world history scholarship has been the attempt to see the history of the last five hundred years through less Eurocentric eyes. Works by Ken Pomeranz, R. Bin Wong, Andre Gunder Frank, and many others, incorporating the burgeoning research on the economic history of Asia, have shown that Europeans did not dominate world commerce before the nineteenth century. Other scholars, such as Stephen Dale and Audrey Burton, have begun to study Asian commercial networks that existed in parallel to the emerging European networks, and often preceded them and exceeded them in scale. What they have shown is that commercial networks as sophisticated and far more extensive than those of early modern Europe had flourished in Asia for hundreds of years. Scott Levi's book is a worthy contribution to this emerging tradition of scholarship.

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