Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders

by Ayşe Zarakol

Book Overview

How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read the ending - the Rise of the West and the decline of the East - into the past? What if we did not assume that Asia was just a residual category, a variant of 'not-Europe', but saw it as a space of with its own particular history and sociopolitical dynamics, not defined only by encounters with European colonialism? How would our understanding of sovereignty,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108971679
• ISBN13: 9781108971676
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"