Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation

Name: Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation
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ISBN: 9780521547246

ISBN-10: 0521547245

ISBN-13: 9780521547246

Edition: 2004

Authors: John M. Hobson

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John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the "Rise of the West" that assume that Europeans have pioneered their own development, and that the East has been a passive by-stander. Describing the rise of what he calls the "Oriental West", Hobson argues that Europe first assimilated many Eastern inventions, and then appropriated Eastern resources through imperialism. Hobson's book thus propels the hitherto marginalized Eastern peoples to the forefront of the story of progressive world history.

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/3/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 388
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English




Countering the Eurocentric myth of the West: discovering the Oriental West



The East as an Early Developer



Islamic and African pioneers: building the global economy in the Afro-Asian Age of Discovery, 500-1500



Chinese pioneers: the first industrial miracle and the myth of Chinese isolationism, 1000-1800



The East remains dominant: India, Japan and Southeast Asia, 1400-1800



The West was Last



Inventing Christendom and the Eastern origins of European feudalism



The myth of the Italian pioneer



The myth of the Vasco de Gama epoch, 1498-1800



The West as a Late-Developer



The myth of 1492 and the impossibility of America: the Afro-Asian contribution to the catch-up of the West, 1492-1700



The Chinese origins of British industrialisation



Constructing European racist identity and the invention of the world, 1700-1850



War, racist imperialism and the Afro-Asian origins of British industrialisation



Conclusion: The Oriental West versus the Eurocentric Myth of the West



The twin myths of the Western liberal state and the civilisational divide between East and West, 1500-1900



The rise of the Oriental West