Eurocentrism and Imperialism

Johannes Dragsbæk Schmidt; Jacques Hersh

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_120-1

Eurocentrism and Imperialism

Johannes Dragsbæk Schmidt, Jacques Hersh

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Abstract

The paradigm of development which gives prevalence to an interpretation-based “European exceptionalism” and “non-European backwardness” fails to explicate the reasons for the divide between “early comers” and “late comers” in the evolution and growth of human history and underplays the question of imperialism as the organizational pattern of the world to serve the interests of the “European Miracle.” The supposition that capitalist imperialism was/is a benevolent philanthropic model and pattern of political economic relations conducive to the establishment of a harmonious commonality deserves to be questioned and rejected as not consistent with past or present experience and reality.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism
Editors	Zak Cope, Immanuel Ness
Number of pages	16
Place of Publication	London and New York
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	18 Aug 2019
Edition	2
Article number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_120-1
Publication status	Published - 18 Aug 2019

Keywords

Eurocentrism
Development
Social Change
Economic history
Imperialism

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