TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hobson,John M.
TI  - The Eastern origins of Western civilization
SN  - 0521838355
U1  - 909.09821 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - East and West
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-368) and index; TOC; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Countering the Eurocentric myth of the pristine West: discovering the oriental West; Constructing the Eurocentric/Orientalist foundations of the mainstream theories of the rise of the West; The illusion of Eurocentrism: discovering the oriental West; Part I The East as an early developer: the East discovers and leads the world through oriental globalisation, 500-1800; BA; BA
N2  - John 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
UR  - https://search.worldcat.org/title/560232517
ER  -