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Tables of Contents for Eight Eurocentric Historians
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Eurocentric History
1
18
Eurocentric Diffusionism
3
5
The Rise of Europe
8
4
The Project
12
1
The Historians
13
4
Notes
17
2
Western Rationality
19
12
Max Weber
Rationality
19
2
Oriental Depotism
21
3
``Only in the West...''
24
5
Notes
29
2
Inventive Europeans
31
14
Lynn White, Jr
A Medieval Agricultural Revolution
32
6
Technological Inventiveness
38
1
Technology, Ecology, Rationality, Religion
39
3
Notes
42
3
The Tunnel of Time
45
28
Robert Brenner
Euro-Marxism
45
3
Brenner's Theory
48
16
Neo-Weberian Euro-Marxism
64
1
Other Views
65
3
Notes
68
5
The European Miracle
73
40
Eric L. Jones
Devices
75
2
``The Quality of Europeanness''
77
6
Technology
83
7
Expansionism
90
2
The Free Market Economy
92
2
States and Nations
94
8
Primitive Africa
102
2
Barbarous Asia
104
4
Growth Recurring
108
1
Notes
109
4
The March of History
113
15
Michael Mann
``The Leading Edge''
114
2
``Rational Restlessness''
116
6
Westward Ho!
122
4
Notes
126
2
Democratic Europeans
128
21
John A. Hall
``Imperial China''
129
4
``The Land of the Brahmans''
133
3
``Islam and Pastoralism''
136
4
The Rise of Christian Europe
140
6
Notes
146
3
Euro-Environmentalism
149
24
Jared Diamond
Environmental Determinism
149
2
``A Natural Experiment''
151
2
Agriculture
153
11
Civilization
164
1
Europe and China
165
6
Notes
171
2
The Empire Strikes Back
173
27
David Landes
``Warm Winds and Gentle Rain''
174
4
A Uniquely Progressive Culture
178
3
The Inventors of Invention
181
6
Empire
187
7
A Summing-Up
194
1
Notes
195
5
Thirty Reasons Why Europeans Are Better Than Everyone Else (A Checklist)
200
5
Notes
204
1
The Model
205
4
Notes
208
1
Bibliography
209
10
Index
219
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