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The end of EurAm man

The end of EurAm man The end of EurAm When Lord Acn planned the Cambridge Modern Hisry at the end of the nineteenth century he conceived it as a universal hisry a study of universal hisrical forces yet he ok it for granted that this hisry would be European, that, in Chrispher Dawson's words, 'it was only, or primarily, in Europe and its colonies that the movement of world hisry was be found' (Dawson 1956: 606, see also Mackinder 1904). Likewise, the television series shown in Japan as Some Aspects of Western Civilizat ion, written and presented by the British art hisrian Sir Kenneth Clark, was originally shown in Europe and North America in 1969 simply as Civilization. Both 'hisry' and 'civilization' are still used as synonyms for a particular, retrospectively constructed, genealogy of the West whereby, as Eric Wolf puts it, begat Rome, Rome begat Christian Europe, Christian Europe the Renaissance, the Renaissance the Enlightenment, the Enlightenment begat political democracy and the industrial revolution. Industry, crossed with democracy, in turn yielded the United States embodying the right life, and the pursuit of happiness. (Wolf 1982: 5) ancient Greece self-confidence of a notion of 'Europe', 'with and without the "North America" whose addition http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Paragraph Edinburgh University Press

The end of EurAm man

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Edinburgh University Press
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0264-8334
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1750-0176
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10.3366/para.1997.20.1.8
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The end of EurAm When Lord Acn planned the Cambridge Modern Hisry at the end of the nineteenth century he conceived it as a universal hisry a study of universal hisrical forces yet he ok it for granted that this hisry would be European, that, in Chrispher Dawson's words, 'it was only, or primarily, in Europe and its colonies that the movement of world hisry was be found' (Dawson 1956: 606, see also Mackinder 1904). Likewise, the television series shown in Japan as Some Aspects of Western Civilizat ion, written and presented by the British art hisrian Sir Kenneth Clark, was originally shown in Europe and North America in 1969 simply as Civilization. Both 'hisry' and 'civilization' are still used as synonyms for a particular, retrospectively constructed, genealogy of the West whereby, as Eric Wolf puts it, begat Rome, Rome begat Christian Europe, Christian Europe the Renaissance, the Renaissance the Enlightenment, the Enlightenment begat political democracy and the industrial revolution. Industry, crossed with democracy, in turn yielded the United States embodying the right life, and the pursuit of happiness. (Wolf 1982: 5) ancient Greece self-confidence of a notion of 'Europe', 'with and without the "North America" whose addition

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