From ‘The West and the Rest’ to Global Interconnectedness: China Historians and the Transformation of World History as a Discipline
Representative of the Eurocentric perspective in world history texts and scholarship is David Landes' 'The Wealth and Poverty of Nations'. He argues that European culture was key to its achievement of wealth and power, and that China was doomed to fail by its "cultural triumphali...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2015-07-01
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| Series: | The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts |
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| Online Access: | http://www.asianetworkexchange.org/articles/105 |