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After Oriental Despotism: Eurasian Growth in a Global Perspective

By Alessandro Stanziani

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2014
ISBN
9781474210447, 9781472523532, 9781472526786, 9781472533395
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7104256 bytes)
Pages
\186
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 18:38:02

Description

The concepts of economic backwardness, Asiatic despotism and orientalism have strongly influenced perceptions of modernization, democracy and economic growth over the last three centuries. This book provides an original view of Russian and Asian history that views both in a global perspective. Via this analysis, Alessandro Stanziani opens new dimensions in the study of state formation, the global slave trade, warfare and European and Asian growth. After Oriental Despotism questions conventional oppositions between Europe and Asia. By revisiting the history of Eurasia in this context, the book offers a serious challenge to existing ideas about the aims and goals of economic growth.

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