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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hobson, John M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Temas:
East and West.
Civilization, Western > History.
Civilisation occidentale > Histoire.
HISTORY > World.
Civilization, Western.
Kulturkontakt
Eurocentrisme.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Socialhistoria > orientaliska influenser.
Orient et Occident.
Ferner Osten
Westliche Welt
Västerlandet > kultur- och samhällsliv > historia.
Electronic book.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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