Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-205) and index.
Contents:
Conclusion: Eurocentrism, world history, meta-narratives, and the meeting of international societies / Richard Little. Europeans and the steppe : Russian lands under the Mongol rule / Iver B. Neumann -- Europe, Islam, and Pax Ottomana, 1453-1774 / Ayla Göl -- Curious and exotic encounters : Europeans as supplicants in the Chinese imperium, 1513-1793 / Yongjin Zhang -- Europe at the periphery of the Japanese world order / Shogo Suzuki -- Corrupt international society : how Britain was duped into its first Indian conquest / Darshan Vigneswaran -- International relations in the Americas during the long eighteenth century, 1663-1820 / Charles Jones -- Europeans, Africans, and the Atlantic world, 1450-1850 / Joel Quirk, David Richardson -- Conclusion: Eurocentrism, world history, meta-narratives, and the meeting of international societies / Richard Little.
Summary:
"This book examines the historical interactions of the West and non-Western world, and investigates whether or not the exclusive adoption of Western-oriented 'international norms' is the prerequisite for the construction of international order"-- Provided by publisher.
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