The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

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This extensively researched book argues that the development of a libertarian culture was an indispensable component of the rise of the West. The roots of the West's superior intellectual and artistic creativity should be traced back to the aristocratic warlike culture of Indo-European speakers. Among the many fascinating topics discussed are: the ascendancy of multicultural historians and the degradation of European history; China's ecological endowments and imperial windfalls; military revolutions in Europe 1300-1800; the science and chivalry of Henry the Navigator; Judaism and its contribution to Western rationalism; the cultural richness of Max Weber versus the intellectual poverty of Pomeranz, Wong, Goldstone, Goody, and A.G. Frank; change without progress in the East; Hegel's Phenomenology of the [Western] Spirit; Nietzsche and the education of the Homeric Greeks; Kojeve's master-slave dialectic and the Western state of nature; Christian virtues and German aristocratic expansionism.
 

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The Fall of Western Civilization and the Rise of Multicultural World History
1
Termination of the Western Civilization Course
4
World History Texts from the 1920s to the 1940s
6
World History Texts in the 1960s
11
Rise of Dependency Theory
13
Wallersteins WorldSystem and Critical Theory
16
Franz Boass Relativism and Marvin Harriss Cultural Materialism
19
From Rise of the West to Interactive Webs
23
Liberty and the States System
226
Chapter Five The Rise of Western Reason and Freedom
231
The Cultural Poverty of the Revisionists
239
The Cultural Richness of Max Weber
246
Judaism and its Contribution to Western Rationalism
254
Schluchter on the Genetic Developmental Dynamic of the West
260
Habermas and the Rationalization of Substantive Values
265
The Liberal Democratic Ideals of the West and its Historiography
269

Cultural Relativism Scientific Materialism and Humanism Combined
27
The Exclusion of Sociobiology
32
Kants unsocial sociability
38
Progress and the State of Nature
42
Dynamic Man versus Reactive Man
45
The Ascendancy of Multicultural World Historians
51
It Takes an African Village to Write World History
56
Felipe FernandezArmesto
62
Chapter Two Eurocentrism over Sinocentrism
71
The Two Arguments of ReOrient
74
One Asian World System?
79
The Role of Colonial Profits
83
the Secret of British Imperial Success
87
Chinas highlevel equilibrium trap
93
The Geographical Limits of Chinas Post1400 Extensive Growth
96
Was Eighteenth Century Europe following a Malthusian path?
102
Was traditional China a Low Fertility Regime?
108
Conclusion
115
Chapter Three Whence the Industrial Divergence?
117
Malthus was Born too Late in a World too New
123
End of the Old Malthusian Regime in England
130
StandardofLiving Debate
136
New World Resources versus European Resources
140
Was Cheap Coal Sufficient or Necessary?
146
Dynamic Rather than Static Comparisons
151
Chinas Ecological Endowments and Imperial Windfalls
153
Chapter Four The Continuous Creativity of Europe
165
Eurocentric Historians
167
Imitation Innovation and Invention
172
Revolution in Time
174
The Printing Revolution
179
The Science and Chivalry of Henry the Navigator
182
Columbus and the Cartographic Revolution
189
The Industrial Enlightenment
195
Goldstones Happy Chance versus Jacobs Scientific Ethos
199
Contingency versus Long Term Patterns
203
A MercantileMilitaristic State?
206
Military Revolutions in Europe 13001800
209
The InterState System
214
Greek Hoplites and the Western Way of War
219
Mercantilism and the Birth of Political Economy
222
Chapter Six The Restlessness of the Western Spirit from a Hegelian Perspective
285
Measuring Human Accomplishments
289
The Historiography of Europes Revolutions
297
Phenomenology of the Western Spirit
302
Hegel and the Geographical Basis of the infinite thirst of the West
308
Hegel and the Beginnings of Western Reason
312
Hegel on the desire of WorldHistorical Individuals
315
The MasterSlave Dialectic and its Historical Reference
318
Hegels Account of the State of Nature
325
Kojeve and the fight to the death for pure prestige
328
Spengler and the Faustian Soul of the West
333
McNeill and the IndoEuropean Roots of the Wests Warrior Ethos
338
Chapter Seven The Aristocratic Egalitarianism of IndoEuropeans and the Primordial Origins of Western Civilization
341
IndoEuropeans as the Other of World History
345
The Distinctive IndoEuropeanization of the West
352
Chariots Mycenaeans and Aristocratic Berserkers
363
Aristocratic and Martial Traits
371
The Impact of IndoEuropeans on the Civilizations of the East
377
Big Man Feasting and the Origins of Inequality
380
PrestigeSeeking Chiefs
384
From Simple to Paramount Chiefdoms
388
Eastern GroupOriented and Western Individualizing Chiefdoms
390
Sumerian versus Greek
399
The Autocratic Character of Mesopotamia and Egypt
402
The Epic of Gilgamesh is not a Heroic Tragedy
410
Chapter Eight The Emergence of the Self from the Western State of Nature and the Conciliation of Christianity and Aristocratic Liberty
419
Why Hegels Master Must be Aristocratic
423
Kojeve and the first appearance of SelfConsciousness
428
Charles Taylor and Platos SelfMastery
431
The Beginnings of Genuine Personalities in History
435
Nietzsches Homer on Competition
441
Arête and the Education of the Greeks
445
The Roman Aristocratic Link
456
The Germanic Barbarian Rejuvenation of the West
460
an Aristocratic Type of Rule
466
Charlemagnes Continuation of the Western Tradition
470
Christian Virtues and Aristocratic Expansionism
475
Aristocratic liberty and the Rise of Representative Institutions
481
Cited Works
489
Index
519
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Ricardo Duchesne, Ph.D (1994) in Social & Political Thought, York University, is Professor of Sociology at The University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada. He has published numerous articles on the rise of the West.

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