FW: 8 Eurocentric Historians

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 25 13:32:32 PDT 2000


debsian at pacbell.net quoted the inimitable James Blaut:


>For
>these
>scholars, the origins of capitalism are European.

I'm confused. If Europe is to be condemned for colonizing the world, and Europe certainly deserves lots of condemnation for that, it must have diffused something in the process. I could swear that diffused something had something to do with capitalism, but I'm no historian, I'm just a journalist.

Doug



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