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Duchesne, Ricardo – Academic Questions, 2012
The claim that there were "surprising similarities" between the West and the more advanced regions of Asia as late as 1800-1830, and that the Industrial Revolution was the one transformation that set Europe apart from Asia is central to the arguments of multicultural historians such as Kenneth Pomeranz, Bin Wong, Jack Goldstone, John…
Descriptors: Sciences, Western Civilization, Foreign Countries, Historians
Williams, Philip F. – Academic Questions, 2012
Great Books programs and Western civilization courses have understandably emphasized the Greco-Roman and Hebraic origins of Western civilization, while moving on to a European focus, with some material relating to the Western Hemisphere usually brought in for good measure. After all, people have the ancient Greeks to thank for such landmark…
Descriptors: Western Civilization, Foreign Countries, Non Western Civilization, Asian History