Abstract
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.
Highlights
Since the 1990s, a powerful movement has brought a multicultural turn in the study of world history
In the name of challenging Eurocentrism, its overall thrust has been to question the West’s uniqueness, to doubt the originality and dynamism involved in the rise of the West, and to marginalize the significance of Western civilization
Led by well-known scholars from several disciplines from economics to anthropology to historical sociology to international relations and history, this new multicultural revisionism has sought to bring in the ethos of multiculturalism as the ruling paradigm of world history
Summary
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, China. Multicultural world history is under greater scrutiny and challenge for marginalizing the West and downplaying numerous non-economic divergences of the West. 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 noneconomic divergences between Europe and other regions. The West was both peculiar and inventive across many domains
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