Add to ORKGIn the 18th and 19th centuries, something rather fascinating occurred. The part of the world we typically call “the West” suddenly showed tremendous growth in population, change in technology, and production of wealth. In this podcast, Dr. Moore discusses this phenomenon, which is the focus of a Foundational Studies course he will teach this fall with Dr. Shelton Woods from the Department of History. The tremendous leap that the West took into what we think of as “modernity” is very puzzling. Why did the West achieve this amazing level of change so quickly, when the East did not? What factors might be considered as the most important causes of this phenomenon? And now the pendulum is swinging the other way. In recent years, a handful of cou...
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Asia and the Pacific, an immense region, both new and old, in which two thirds of the world lives. A...
When asked about the impact of the French Revolution on China, the late Premier Zhou Enlai is repute...
September 2012 It is widely accepted that Asia has risen in the world economy since at least 1960, a...
The question of how 'the West' came to dominate the globe during the modern era has been debated rec...
With the current interest in China (and India) proliferating within the Western Academy, this articl...
Pankaj Mishra explains how intellectual and political responses by Asian thinkers to western imperia...
It has become the new truth of the early twenty-first century that the Western world we have known i...
There appears to be a consensus that Asia is “rising.” Much of the change in the decades ahead will ...
Historical understandings of globalization in Asia should not begin as they typically do in social s...
For well over two hundred years we have lived in a western-made world, one where the very notion of ...
Among many puzzles in economic history, the crucial and most intriguing is the “Great Di-vergence, ”...
The recurring question asked for more than a century is why does the West dominate the world? Is it ...
While there seems to be a lot of debate around the issue of whether the center of gravitational powe...
Introduction In this chapter I aim to argue that the centre of the world has begun to shift away fro...
Why did sustained industrialization and modern economic growth first take off in western Europe and ...
Asia and the Pacific, an immense region, both new and old, in which two thirds of the world lives. A...
When asked about the impact of the French Revolution on China, the late Premier Zhou Enlai is repute...
September 2012 It is widely accepted that Asia has risen in the world economy since at least 1960, a...