This is known as Eurocentrism. Anthony
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Chair & Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies Australia India Institute and School of Social & Political Sciences University of Melbourne 147-149 Barry Street, Carlton VIC 3053, AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 3 9035 6161 Visit the Australia India Institute Website http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/ Recent Conference (The Land Question) http://idsk.edu.in/program.php New Book Series (Dynamics of Asian Development) http://www.springer.com/series/13342 Recent books: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198082286.do#.UI5Wzmc2dI0 http://www.oup.com/localecatalogue/cls_academic/?i=9780199646210 http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857285041.pdf http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=295354 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from my iPad > On Apr 28, 2015, at 04:45, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Saturday morning I attended a panel discussion on Mike Zmolek’s newly > published “Rethinking the Industrial Revolution” at the Historical > Materialism conference at NYU. This is a 1000-page work based on his > dissertation that he began 20 years ago on the suggestion of his adviser > George Comninel that the Brenner thesis should be extended forward > historically to account for the industrial revolution. While I am sure > that the book has a lot of interesting research based on a cursory > glance at the dissertation in Proquest, my reaction is to wonder why the > Political Marxism tendency, to which Comninel and Zmolek belong, has so > little interest in another kind of extension, namely geographical. How > in the world can you continue to ignore economic and social developments > in the colonial world in the period of early modernity? In some ways it > reminds me of that famous New Yorker cartoon where you see a map of the > USA in which all the states recede in size increasingly as you move > westward from Manhattan with California finally the size of a postage > stamp. Substitute the British Isles for Manhattan and you get the > Political Marxism perspective. > > full: > http://louisproyect.org/2015/04/27/capitalism-slavery-and-primitive-accumulation/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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