Multicultural vs. Post-Multicultural World History

A Review Essay

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18102766
AutoresMartin Hewson (0000-0003-1699-3732, University of Regina, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen3
Número2
Fecha de publicación2012-12-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2373-7530 • E-ISSN: 2373-7530
EditorialCalifornia Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21237/c7clio3212933
OpenAlexW1581999406
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas10

Over the last two decades, a trend of multiculturalism in world history has enjoyed a largely uncontested rise to prominence. Its main aim has been to challenge Eurocentrism. Its main achievement is to have issued a corrective in early modern economic history: prior to the industrial revolution, there were numerous economic parallels between Europe and Asia, particularly China. But multicultural world history is now under greater scrutiny and challenge for marginalizing the West and downplaying numerous non-economic divergences of the West. In response, a post-multicultural world history is now emerging. Its most important work so far is Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization (2011). The main achievement of post-multicultural world history is to have established that there were numerous critical non-economic divergences between Europe and other regions. The West was both peculiar and inventive across many domains

China · Civilization · Counterpoint · Development economics · Economics · Eurocentrism · Multiculturalism · Political science · Scrutiny · Social science · Sociology · World history · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Law