The Eastern origins of Western civilisation /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hobson, John M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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