The Eastern origins of Western civilization
| Titel: | The Eastern origins of Western civilization / John M. Hobson |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004 |
| Umfang: | XIII, 376 S. : Kt. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0521547245 ; 0521838355 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- 1
- Countering the Eurocentric myth of the West: discovering the Oriental West
- Part I
- The East as an Early Developer
- 2
- Islamic and African pioneers: building the global economy in the Afro-Asian Age of Discovery, 500-1500
- 3
- Chinese pioneers: the first industrial miracle and the myth of Chinese isolationism, 1000-1800
- 4
- The East remains dominant: India, Japan and Southeast Asia, 1400-1800
- Part II
- The West was Last
- 5
- Inventing Christendom and the Eastern origins of European feudalism
- 6
- The myth of the Italian pioneer
- 7
- The myth of the Vasco de Gama epoch, 1498-1800
- Part III
- The West as a Late-Developer
- 8
- The myth of 1492 and the impossibility of America: the Afro-Asian contribution to the catch-up of the West, 1492-1700
- 9
- The Chinese origins of British industrialisation
- 10
- Constructing European racist identity and the invention of the world, 1700-1850
- 11
- War, racist imperialism and the Afro-Asian origins of British industrialisation
- Part IV
- Conclusion: The Oriental West versus the Eurocentric Myth of the West
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- The twin myths of the Western liberal state and the civilisational divide between East and West, 1500-1900
- 13
- The rise of the Oriental West
