Rethinking World History Essays on Europe, Islam and World History Hodgson Burke

Rethinking World History Essays on Europe, Islam and World History Hodgson Burke

Rethinking World HistoryEssays on Europe, Islam and World History\nAuthor(s): Marshall G. S. Hodgson, Edmund Burke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521432535, 978-0521432535\nSynopsis\nIs the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of Europe in world history. He argues that the line that connects Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance to modern times is an optical illusion, and that a global and Asia-centred history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. Hodgson then shifts the historical focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilisation i.

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