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
Summary
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 the forefront of the story of world history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-368) and index
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English
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