edited by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth ; with the assistance of Amit Basole.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxxv, 259 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: challanging Eurocentrism: 45 theses / Rajani Kannepalli Kanth -- Eurocentric roots of the clash of civilizations: a perspective from the history of science / Arun Bala -- Mathematics and Eurocentrism / George Gheverghese Joseph -- Official corruption and poverty: a challenge to the Eurocentric view / Ravi Batra -- Pan-African and Afro-Asian alternatives [to] and critiques [of Eurocentrism] / Mathew Forstater -- Economic development and the fabrication of the Middle East as a Eurocentric project / Firat Demir and Fadhel Kaboub -- The phantom of liberty: mo(der)nism and postcolonial imaginations in India / Rajesh Bhattacharya and Amit Basole -- Eurocentrism, modernity, and the postcolonial predicament in East Asia / Kho Tung-Yi -- On cultural bondage: from Eurocentrism to Americocentrism / Ali A. Mazrui -- American exceptionalism and the myth of the frontiers / Rajiv Malhotra -- What have the Muslims ever done for us? Islamic origins of Western civilization / John M. Hobson -- Beyond Eurocentrism: the next frontier / Rajani Kannepalli Kanth -- Postface: Eurocentrim-whither now? / Rajani Kannepalli Kanth.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Eurocentrism is the current object of a global critique, which has the potential to be as significant as Marxist and Feminist critiques have been. This critique focuses on and dissects the paradigms that have emanated from the European Enlightenment.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Civilization, Modern-- European influences.
Eurocentrism.
Postcolonialism.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.