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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part42.utf8:94733916:3988
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 03988cam a22004338i 4500
001 2015041979
003 DLC
005 20151215083945.0
008 151211s2015 ilu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015041979
020 $a9781612298283 (paperback : alkaline paper)
020 $z9781612298290 (PDF)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae------
050 00 $aCB69$b.I585 2015
082 00 $a909$223
245 04 $aThe interwoven world :$bideas and encounters in history /$cedited by Burjor Avari, George Gheverghese Joseph.
263 $a1602
264 1 $aChampaign, Illinois :$bCommon Ground Publishing,$c2015.
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aCommunity series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Burjor Avari and George Gheverghese Joseph -- Section I. Eurocentrism -- Modern science and traditional knowledge / Nels H. Granholm and Charles L. Woodard -- Closed continuity or cross-fertilization : how did the scientific revolution happen? / Arun Bala -- Kant and Chinese philosophy / Keekok Lee -- Pharmacy in ancient Egypt and its legacy to world pharmacopoeia / Jacquline M. Campbell -- Mathematics : a global history / George Gheverghese Joseph -- Engineering shared prosperity : kautilya's Arthashastra / Balbir Sihag -- Panini : the father of grammar / Amba Kulkarni -- Strategies of a Eurocentric project / George Joseph -- Ibn Khaldun's philosophy of history / Burjor Avari -- The attitude of Islamic civilization to ancient sciences / Rabie E. Abdel-Halim -- Section II. Patterns of cultural encounters -- Travel writing in a cross-cultural and historical perspective / Mary Searle-Chatterjee -- Iran and India : two cultures across time : an Iranian perspective / Afsaneh Monfared -- The journey of African religious and epistemological ideas to the New World-diaspora / Afe Adogame -- From Liszt to Eurovision : the impact of Gypsy music / Yaron Matras -- The impact of Christian missions on the non-Christian world / Martin Palmer -- The multicultural roots of humanism / Robin Grinter -- Egypt-Mesopotamia-Greece nexus / George Gheverghese Joseph -- Zoroastrianism and Abrahamic faiths / Farrokh Vajifdar -- Section III. Colonialism and its aftermath -- Colonialism and the economics of unequal exchange / Tidings P. Ndhlovu -- The spread and impact of English education in colonial India / Anindita Ghosh -- Postcolonial literature from Africa and the Caribbean : contact zones of language and culture / Ketu H. Katrak -- Palestine, orientalism and the orientalists : remembering Edward Said / Burjor Avari and George Gheverghese Joseph -- Section IV. Westernisation and its fruits -- The idea of democracy and its practice / Burjor Avari -- On feminist/gender approaches in an intersecting world : "But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth..." / Shoba Arun -- Ebbs and flows in education from the pre-eminence of the European classical model to global developments / Nicholas J. Tyldesley -- Financialisation in an interwoven world / Thankom Arun -- Sport and values : transmission and transformation / Robin Grinter -- Virtues of the West / Burjor Avari -- The man who knew infinity : the life and times of Srinivasa Ramanujan / George Gheverghese Joseph.
650 0 $aCivilization$xHistory.
650 0 $aCivilization$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aAcculturation$xHistory.
650 0 $aGlobalization$xHistory.
650 0 $aEurocentrism$xHistory.
650 0 $aEast and West$xHistory.
650 0 $aCultural pluralism$xHistory.
650 0 $aColonization$xHistory.
650 0 $aIntercultural communication$xHistory.
700 1 $aAvari, Burjor.
700 1 $aJoseph, George Gheverghese.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tInterwoven world$dChampaign, Illinois : Common Ground Publishing, 2015$z9781612298283$w(DLC) 2015049161