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Author : Swami Vivekananda
Release : 1909
Genre : Hinduism
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The East and the West by : Swami Vivekananda
Download or read book The East and the West written by Swami Vivekananda. This book was released on 1909. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Salman Rushdie
Release : 2014-01-08
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 330/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis East, West by : Salman Rushdie
Download or read book East, West written by Salman Rushdie. This book was released on 2014-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence. "Richly nuanced, full or humor, bitter anger, an embracing tenderness, and a buyancy of language." —Boston Globe
Author : Jack Goody
Release : 1996-03-21
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 736/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The East in the West by : Jack Goody
Download or read book The East in the West written by Jack Goody. This book was released on 1996-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and economic historians have seen as intrinsic to capitalism, arguing that there was in fact little difference between East and West in terms of mercantile activity. Other factors said to inhibit the East's development, such as the family and forms of labour, have also been greatly exaggerated. This Eurocentrism both fails to explain the current achievements of the East, and misunderstands Western history. The East in the West starts to redress the balance, and so marks a fundamental shift in our view of Western and Eastern history and society.
Author : Christopher Patten
Release : 1998
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 362/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis East and West by : Christopher Patten
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Author : Attila Melegh
Release : 2006-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 240/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On the East-west Slope by : Attila Melegh
Download or read book On the East-west Slope written by Attila Melegh. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melegh's work offers a powerful analysis of the sociological and symbolic meanings of East-West in Europe after the end of the Cold War. While the fundamental poles of East and West remain, both their meaning and their relationship to one another have shifted profoundly since the late 1970s. Melegh exposes the underbelly of liberal characterizations of East-West, highlighting the polarizing effect of extreme nationalism and ethnic racism. The theoretical underpinnings of this work involve the ideas of preeminent theorists such as Karl Mannheim, Michel Foucault and more recently Maria Todorova and Iver Neumann. This work casts into fine relief how the "East-West Slope" oriented negatively from West to East has emerged from liberal characterizations of this project. The book analyzes the historical change in East-West discourses from a modernizationist type to a new/old civilizational one. In addition, this is one of the first attempts to link post-colonial analysis to developments in Eastern Europe.
