The interwoven world
Subtitle: ideas and encounters in history
By: edited by Burjor Avari, George Gheverghese Joseph
Series: Community series
Publisher: Common Ground Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Champaign, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781612298283; 9781612298290
Subjects: East and West; Cultural pluralism; Acculturation; Eurocentrism; Philosophy; Colonization; Globalization; Civilization; History; Intercultural communication
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Burjor Avari and George Gheverghese Joseph; title: Section I. Eurocentrism; title: Modern science and traditional knowledge / Nels H. Granholm and Charles L. Woodard; title: Closed continuity or cross-fertilization : how did the scientific revolution happen? / Arun Bala; title: Kant and Chinese philosophy / Keekok Lee; title: Pharmacy in ancient Egypt and its legacy to world pharmacopoeia / Jacquline M. Campbell; title: Mathematics : a global history / George Gheverghese Joseph; title: Engineering shared prosperity : kautilya's Arthashastra / Balbir Sihag; title: Panini : the father of grammar / Amba Kulkarni; title: Strategies of a Eurocentric project / George Joseph; title: Ibn Khaldun's philosophy of history / Burjor Avari; title: The attitude of Islamic civilization to ancient sciences / Rabie E. Abdel-Halim; title: Section II. Patterns of cultural encounters; title: Travel writing in a cross-cultural and historical perspective / Mary Searle-Chatterjee; title: Iran and India : two cultures across time : an Iranian perspective / Afsaneh Monfared; title: The journey of African religious and epistemological ideas to the New World-diaspora / Afe Adogame; title: From Liszt to Eurovision : the impact of Gypsy music / Yaron Matras; title: The impact of Christian missions on the non-Christian world / Martin Palmer; title: The multicultural roots of humanism / Robin Grinter; title: Egypt-Mesopotamia-Greece nexus / George Gheverghese Joseph; title: Zoroastrianism and Abrahamic faiths / Farrokh Vajifdar; title: Section III. Colonialism and its aftermath; title: Colonialism and the economics of unequal exchange / Tidings P. Ndhlovu; title: The spread and impact of English education in colonial India / Anindita Ghosh; title: Postcolonial literature from Africa and the Caribbean : contact zones of language and culture / Ketu H. Katrak; title: Palestine, orientalism and the orientalists : remembering Edward Said / Burjor Avari and George Gheverghese Joseph; title: Section IV. Westernisation and its fruits; title: The idea of democracy and its practice / Burjor Avari; title: On feminist/gender approaches in an intersecting world : "But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth..." / Shoba Arun; title: Ebbs and flows in education from the pre-eminence of the European classical model to global developments / Nicholas J. Tyldesley; title: Financialisation in an interwoven world / Thankom Arun; title: Sport and values : transmission and transformation / Robin Grinter; title: Virtues of the West / Burjor Avari; title: The man who knew infinity : the life and times of Srinivasa Ramanujan / George Gheverghese Joseph.