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Eastern Origins Of Western Civilisation , Professor John M Hobson , Taal: Engels
Artikelnummer: 9780521547246
'We are still at the beginning stage of a much-needed revisionist history of the world, to which this book makes a lively scholarly contribution. Hobson's well-documented argument warrants serious consideration.' JANET ABU-LUGHOD, author of Before European Hegemony.
'John Hobson's work is thoroughly researched. enormously wide ranging and well written. It does not merely provide a thoughtful response to recent Eurocentric world histories. It is also certain to play a central role in the new wave of studies demonstrating the substantial contributions to modern "civilisation" made by so many non-European peoples. The work is a worthy successor to the classic study of "imperialism" written by the author's great-grandfather John Atkinson Hobson.' MARTIN BERNAL, author of Black Athena.
'John Hobson has written an immensely ambitious book which seeks, literally and metaphori-cally, to redraw the historical map. Drawing on an impressive range of economic and cultural histo-riography, he proposes a new "meta-narrative" for a millennium of global history, which is perhaps best summed up as "The Oriental Contribution to the Rise of the West". Hobson argues that Western industrialization was based in large measure on the adoption of Arab and Chinese knowledge, the enslavement of African labour and the imposition of asymmetric trading arrangements on Asian economies. As a polemic against European triumphalism, The Eastern Origins of Western Cluilisation recalls the hugely influential work of the author's great-grandfather, the radical anti-imperialist J.A. Hobson.' NIALL FERGUSON, author of Empire.
"Evidence that Asia's primacy was crucial to the Rise of the West has been accumulating for twenty years. Dr. Hobson has now pulled the pieces together in a compellingly written and most challenging scheme. His grand conception will open a whole new order of debate.ERIC JONES, author of The European Miracle and Growth Recurring:
This is an important book of comparative and historical sociology. It is both a punchy polemic against Eurocentrism and an impressive gathering of evidence on the historical development of Europe and Asia. Hobson argues that the many inventions which supposedly enabled Europe to dominate the world were actually diffused to Europe from Asia (usually from China) and that Asia/China remained as developed as Europe until the 19th century - and mostly he convinces MICHAEL MANN, author of The Sources of Social Power (2 volumes).
John Hobsten an original and insightful book which amounts to no less than an alternative history of the modern world. Dr Hobson breaks through the received wisdom about East and west, recasting familiar assumptions about
"Western" civilization and tracing the West's indebtedness to the East. His is a rare act of intellectual rediscovery - a remarkable and thought-provoking work.
SHASHI THAROOR, author of The Great Indian Novel, and India: From Midnight to the Millennium.
John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West. It is often assumed that since Ancient Greek times Europeans have pioneered their own development, and that the East has been a passive by-stander in the story of progressive world history. Hobson argues that there were two processes that enabled the Rise of the 'Oriental West'. First, each major developmental turning point in Europe was informed in large part by the assimilation of Eastern inventions (e.g. ideas, technologies and institutions) which diffused from the more advanced East across the Eastern-led global economy between 500–1800. Second, the construction of European identity after 1453 led to imperialism, through which Europeans appropriated many Eastern resources (land, labour and markets). Hobson's book thus propels the hitherto marginalised Eastern peoples to the forefront of the story of progress in world history.
Gewicht
0,585 Kg
Uit jaar:
2004-2006
Uitvoering:
Paperback
Drukkerij
University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, united Kingdom
Uitgever(Label):
Cambridge university Press
Omslagillustratie:
Chêng Ho's treasure ship (four hundred feet) and Columbus's St. Maria (eighty-five feet). illustration by Jan Adkins, 1993
Aantal pagina's
376 incl. Index
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