Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 376 p)
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maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0521547245
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0521838355
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0511211406
Content:
John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West. He describes the rise of the 'Oriental West', arguing that Europe assimilated Eastern inventions and appropriated Eastern resources through imperialism. Hobson's book places Eastern peoples at the forefront of the story of world history
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-368) and index
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Countering the Eurocentric myth of the pristine West: discovering the oriental West; Constructing the Eurocentric/Orientalist foundations of the mainstream theories of the rise of the West; The illusion of Eurocentrism: discovering the oriental West; Part I The East as an early developer: the East discovers and leads the world through oriental globalisation, 500-1800
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2 Islamic and African pioneers: building the Bridge of the World and the global economy in the Afro-Asian age of discovery, 500-15003 Chinese pioneers: the first industrial miracle and the myth of Chinese isolationism, c. 1000-1800; 4 The East remains dominant: the twin myths of oriental despotism and isolationism in India, South-east Asia and Japan, 1400-1800; 5 Inventing Christendom and the Eastern origins of European feudalism, c. 500-1000; 6 The myth of the Italian pioneer, 1000-1492; 7 The myth of the Vasco da Gama epoch, 1498-c. 1800
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Part III The West as a late developer and the advantages of backwardness: oriental globalisation and the reconstruction of Western Europe as the advanced West, 1492-18508 The myth of 1492 and the impossibility of America: the Afro-Asian contribution to the catch up of the West, 1492-c. 1700; 9 The Chinese origins of British industrialisation: Britain as a derivative late developer, 1700-1846; 10 Constructing European racist identity and the invention of the world, 1700-1850: the imperial civilising mission as a moral vocation
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11 The dark side of British industrialisation and the myth of laissez-faire: war, racist imperialism and the Afro-Asian origins of industrialisation12 The twin myths of the rational Western liberal-democratic state and the great divide between East and West, 1500-1900; 13 The rise of the oriental West: identity/agency, global structure and contingency; Notes; Notes to ch. 1; Notes to ch. 2; Notes to ch. 3; Notes to ch. 4; Notes to ch. 5; Notes to ch. 6; Notes to ch. 7; Notes to ch. 8; Notes to ch. 9; Notes to ch. 10; Notes to ch. 11; Notes to ch. 12; Notes to ch. 13; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521838351
Additional Edition:
Print version The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation
Language:
English
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