The Challenge of Eurocentrism: Global Perspectives, Policy, and Prospects

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxv
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Eurocentric Roots of the Clash of Civilizations: A Perspective from History of Science....Pages 9-23
Mathematics and Eurocentrism....Pages 25-44
Official Corruption and Poverty: A Challenge to the Eurocentric View....Pages 45-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Pan-African and Afro-Asian Alternatives [to] and Critiques [of Eurocentrism]....Pages 63-76
Economic Development and the Fabrication of the Middle East as a Eurocentric Project....Pages 77-96
The Phantom of Liberty: Mo(der)nism and Postcolonial Imaginations in India....Pages 97-119
Eurocentrism, Modernity, and the Postcolonial Predicament in East Asia....Pages 121-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
On Cultural Bondage: From Eurocentrism to Americocentrism....Pages 147-170
American Exceptionalism and the Myth of the Frontiers....Pages 171-215
What Have the Muslims Ever Done for Us? Islamic Origins of Western Civilization....Pages 217-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Beyond Eurocentrism: The Next Frontier....Pages 239-243
Postface....Pages 245-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-259