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Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation

By John M. Hobson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0521838355, 9780521838351
LCC
CB251 .H63 2004
Open Library ID
OL3691918M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3135247 bytes)
Pages
393\393
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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