Eurocentrism

Amin, Samir. Eurocentrism. Translated by Russell Moore. New York: Monthly Review, 1989. Major attack on Eurocentrism.

Bernal, Martin. The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785–1985. Vol. 1 of Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. London: Free Association Books, 1987. Argues that Ancient Greek civilization had its roots in Africa and Asia.

Blaut, James M. The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. New York: Guilford, 1993.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated by Constance Farrington. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1967. Classic text condemning colonialism, including its influence on the mind.

Goody, Jack. The East in the West. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Major anti-Eurocentrist theory of world history.

Inden, Ronald B. Imagining India. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.

Lach, Donald F. Asia in the Making of Europe, 3 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965–1993. In three volumes and nine books covers South Asian, East Asian, and Southeast Asian impact on Europe over three centuries.

Mackerras, Colin. Western Images of China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Covers all periods.

Marx, Karl. "The British Rule in India." In Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Works, in Three Volumes. Vol. 1. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969. Classic text summing up Marx's views on environmental determinism and colonialism.

McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. New York and London: Routledge, 1995. Using mainly African examples, argues interconnections among imperialism, sexism, racism, and class.

Said, Edward W. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon, 1978. Major twentieth-century theory attacking Eurocentrism.

Wittfogel, Karl A. Oriental Despotism, A Comparative Study of Total Power. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1957. Summation of Wittfogel's ideas on the "hydraulic society."