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The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 33.00John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West. He describes the rise of the 'Oriental West', arguing that Europe assimilated Eastern inventions and appropriated Eastern resources through imperialism. Hobson's book places Eastern peoples at the forefront of the story of world history. more...
A Call for Heresy
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 24.95A Call for Heresy discovers unexpected common ground in the deepening conflict between the Islamic world and the United States. Anouar Majid argues that the Islamic world and the United States are both in precipitous states of decline because, in each, religious, political, and economic orthodoxies have silenced the voices of their most creative thinkers.... more...
Against Empire
Zed Books 2004; US$ 34.95In Against Empire, Zillah Eisenstein extends her critique of neoliberal globalization and its capture of democratic possibilities. Faced with an aggressive American empire hostage to ideological extremism and violently promoting the narrowest of its interests around the globe, Eisenstein urgently looks to a global anti-war movement to counter U.S.... more...
Somebody Else's Century
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 25.95From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West. In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East?s endeavor to adopt Western technology and all that we consider modern. He underscores a crucial distinction between modernization (the simple emulation... more...
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 44.00Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images... more...
Why The West Rules For Now
Profile 2010; US$ 30.00Why did British boats shoot their way up the Yangzi in 1842, rather than Chinese ones up the Thames? Why do Easterners use English more than Europeans speak in Mandarin or Japanese? To put it bluntly, why does the West rule? There are two schools of thought: the Long-Term Lock-In theory, suggesting some sort of inevitability, and the Short-Term... more...
A Concise Survey of Western Civilization
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 28.99This engaging text offers a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage as it began in the first human societies and developed in ancient Greece and Rome, then through the Middle Ages. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian A. Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults... more...
Multiple Antiquities - Multiple Modernities
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 51.76Hauptbeschreibung Im 19. Jahrhundert war die Antike eine wichtige Bezugsgröße in vielen europäischen Ländern. Dabei gab es Unterschiede in der Sicht und Aneignung der griechischen, römischen und auch "archaischen" Antike. Im Sinne einer Histoire croisée zeigt der Band, wie jede Nation ihre eigene Antike schuf. Biographische Informationen... more...
Erinnerung ? Niederschrift ? Nutzung
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00The volume is devoted to the study of the history of the Roman-Iberian relationship against the backdrop of ecclesiastical and cultural structures of the Iberian Peninsula, which in many cases took on new forms in the course of the Reconquista and the consolidation of the country. The recently intensified focus on questions concerning the relationship... more...
The Idea of Decline in Western History
Free Press 2010; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...









