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The Challenge of Eurocentrism

Global Perspectives, Policy, and Prospects

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  1. Rajani Kannepalli Kanth
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Rajani Kannepalli Kanth
      Pages 1-6

  3. Received Theory, Science, and Eurocentrism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Eurocentric Roots of the Clash of Civilizations: A Perspective from History of Science

      • Arun Bala
      Pages 9-23

    3. Mathematics and Eurocentrism

      • George Gheverghese Joseph
      Pages 25-44

    4. Official Corruption and Poverty: A Challenge to the Eurocentric View

      • Ravi Batra
      Pages 45-59

  4. Perspectives on Africa, West, South, and East Asia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Pan-African and Afro-Asian Alternatives [to] and Critiques [of Eurocentrism]

      • Mathew Forstater
      Pages 63-76

    3. Economic Development and the Fabrication of the Middle East as a Eurocentric Project

      • Firat Demir, Fadhel Kaboub
      Pages 77-96

    4. The Phantom of Liberty: Mo(der)nism and Postcolonial Imaginations in India

      • Rajesh Bhattacharya, Amit Basole
      Pages 97-119

    5. Eurocentrism, Modernity, and the Postcolonial Predicament in East Asia

      • Kho Tung-Yi
      Pages 121-143

  5. Perspectives on the West: Europe and the Americas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. On Cultural Bondage: From Eurocentrism to Americocentrism

      • Ali A. Mazrui
      Pages 147-170

    3. American Exceptionalism and the Myth of the Frontiers

      • Rajiv Malhotra
      Pages 171-215

    4. What Have the Muslims Ever Done for Us? Islamic Origins of Western Civilization

      • John M. Hobson
      Pages 217-235

  6. Eurocentrism: Policy and Prospects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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    2. Beyond Eurocentrism: The Next Frontier

      • Rajani Kannepalli Kanth
      Pages 239-243

    3. Postface

      • Rajani Kannepalli Kanth
      Pages 245-248

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 249-259
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About this book

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.

Reviews

"An exciting collection of papers on the distortions of Eurocentric analyses, one that points the way forward to more truly universalistic structures of knowledge." - Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scholar, Yale University

"A critique in the proper sense of the term: challenges conventional orthodoxy and provides an alternative, more enlightened world view" - Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History,Harvard University

About the authors

RAJANI KANNEPALLI KANTH is a Visting Fellow at Harvard University, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Challenge of Eurocentrism

  • Book Subtitle: Global Perspectives, Policy, and Prospects

  • Editors: Rajani Kannepalli Kanth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230620896

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62089-6Published: 26 April 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXV, 259

  • Topics: International Economics, Economic History

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