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The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation
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John M. Hobson
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2009
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Cambridge University Press
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9780511489013
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2004
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2009
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10.1017/CBO9780511489013
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Book chapters
pp. xi
Preface and acknowledgements
pp. xiv
Map: Hobo-Dyer projection of the world
pp. 1
Countering the Eurocentric myth of the pristine West: discovering the oriental West
pp. 29
Islamic and African pioneers: building the Bridge of the World and the global economy in the Afro-Asian age of discovery, 500–1500
pp. 50
Chinese pioneers: the first industrial miracle and the myth of Chinese isolationism, c. 1000–1800
pp. 74
The East remains dominant: the twin myths of oriental despotism and isolationism in India, South-east Asia and Japan, 1400–1800
pp. 99
Inventing Christendom and the Eastern origins of European feudalism, c. 500–1000
pp. 116
The myth of the Italian pioneer, 1000–1492
pp. 134
The myth of the Vasco da Gama epoch, 1498–c. 1800
pp. 161
The myth of 1492 and the impossibility of America: the Afro-Asian contribution to the catch up of the West, 1492–c. 1700
pp. 190
The Chinese origins of British industrialisation: Britain as a derivative late developer, 1700–1846
pp. 219
Constructing European racist identity and the invention of the world, 1700–1850: the imperial civilising mission as a moral vocation
pp. 243
The dark side of British industrialisation and the myth oflaissez-faire: war, racist imperialism and the Afro-Asian origins of industrialisation
pp. 283
The twin myths of the rational Western liberal-democratic state and the great divide between East and West, 1500–1900
pp. 294
The rise of the oriental West: identity/agency, global structure and contingency
pp. 323
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