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The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 2004 07 Pages: 376 in Publisher: Camidge University Press John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West It is often assumed that Operating since Ancient Greek times Europeans have pioneered their own development and that the East has been a passive by-stander in the story of progressive world history. Hobson argues that there were two processes that enabled the Rise of the 'Oriental West'. First. each major developmental turning point in Europe was informed in large part by the assimilation of Eastern inventions (eg ideas. technologies and institutions) which diffused from the more advanced East across the Eastern-led global economy between 500-1800. Second. the construction of European identity after 1453 led to imperialism. through which Europeans appropriated many Eastern resources (land. labour and market...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West. It is often assumed that since Ancient Greek times Europeans have pioneered their own development, and that the East has been a passive bystander in the...

  • 0521547245
  • 9780521547246
  • John M. Hobson
  • 3 June 2004
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 392
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