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The Eastern origins of Western civilisation

John M. Hobson
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of tables (page ix)
  • Preface and acknowledgements (page xi)
  • Map: Hobo-Dyer projection of the world (page xiv)
  • 1 Countering the Eurocentric myth of the pristine West: discovering the oriental West (page 1)
  • I The East as an early developer: the East discovers and leads the world through oriental globalisation, 500-1800
    • 2 Islamic and African pioneers: building the Bridge of the World and the global economy in the Afro-Asian age of discovery, 500-1500 (page 29)
    • 3 Chinese pioneers: the first industrial miracle and the myth of Chinese isolationism, c. 1000-1800 (page 50)
    • 4 The East remains dominant: the twin myths of oriental despotism and isolationism in India, South-east Asia and Japan, 1400-1800 (page 74)
  • II The West was last: oriental globalisation and the invention of Christendom, 500-1498
    • 5 Inventing Christendom and the Eastern origins of European feudalism, c. 500-1000 (page 99)
    • 6 The myth of the Italian pioneer, 1000-1492 (page 116)
    • 7 The myth of the Vasco da Gama epoch, 1498-c. 1800 (page 134)
  • III The West as a late developer and the advantages of backwardness: oriental globalisation and the reconstruction of Western Europe as the advanced West, 1492-1850
    • 8 The myth of 1492 and the impossibility of America: the Afro-Asian contribution to the catch up of the West, 1492-c. 1700 (page 161)
    • 9 The Chinese origins of British industrialisation: Britain as a derivative late developer, 1700-1846 (page 190)
    • 10 Constructing European racist identity and the invention of the world, 1700-1850: the imperial civilising mission as a moral vocation (page 219)
    • 11 The dark side of British industrialisation and the myth of laissez-faire: war, racist imperialism and the Afro-Asian origins of industrialisation (page 243)
  • IV Conclusion: the oriental West versus the Eurocentric myth of the West
    • 12 The twin myths of the rational Western liberal-democratic state and the great divide between East and West, 1500-1900 (page 283)
    • 13 The rise of the oriental West: identity/agency, global structure and contingency (page 294)
  • Notes (page 323)
  • Index (page 369)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
EHR 57.4 (Nov. 2004): 799-800 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3698657
JMH 78.3 (Sep. 2006): 695-697 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/509157
PA 78.1 (Spring 2005): 119-120 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40023447
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Published: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521547246 (paper)
  • 9780521838351 (hardcover)
  • 9780511209611 (ebook)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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