Yes, everybody should try to send their posts in plain text and also keep
your margins at less than 80 characters.
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:27:31PM -0500, Andrew Hagen wrote:
> Your small font is slowly killing my eyes.
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> Andrew Hagen
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> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 20:02:26 EDT
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> In a message dated 5/23/2001 2:32:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> I would like to see a short summary, 50-100 words, laying out what is at
> stake, including how the word Eurocentrism is to be understood. �Does it
> mean ignoring the accomplishments of non-European areas; or their
> contribution to the development of capitalism?
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> Looing through Blaut's notes I see a reference to The Myth of the Continents,
> by Lewis and Wiggin, a work worth reading as it tries to replace the whole
> terminology with something new, or at least see the way 'Eurocentrism' (to a
> partial degree) is self-provoked by the use of the term 'Europe'. It is
> interesing that Herodotus was already complaining about the way the Greeks
> began to divide Europe from Asia for understandable reasons perhaps in
> eastern meditarranean seafarers.
> Blaut seems clearly influenced by this book which nixes the continent
> 'Europe' for Eurasia, the distinction 'East West', and more casualties.
> So one solution is to stop using the term Europe....So once upon a time,
> somewhere, on the fringes of Eurasia a new mode of production, etc...
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> John Landon
> author
> World History and the Eonic Effect
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