TY - BOOK AU - Duchesne,Ricardo ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The uniqueness of Western civilization T2 - Studies in critical social sciences, AV - CB245 .D83 2011 U1 - 909/.09821 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Civilization, Western KW - Historiography KW - Philosophy KW - Eurocentrism KW - Multiculturalism KW - Liberty KW - Western countries KW - History KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The fall of Western civilization and the rise of multicultural world history -- Eurocentrism over Sinocentrism -- Whence the industrial divergence? -- The continuous creativity of Europe -- The "rise" of Western reason and freedom -- The restlessness of the Western spirit from a Hegelian perspective -- The aristocratic egalitarianism of Indo-Europeans and the primordial origins of Western civilization -- The emergence of the self from the Western "state of nature" and the conciliation of Christianity and aristocratic liberty; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=717503 ER -