How did ‘Eurocentrism’ assume the status of a Euro-North American theory of human history that privileges the Greek–Roman classical world as the cradle of human civilisation in the process overshadowing the reality of Africa as the certified cradle of humankind?

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How did ‘Eurocentrism’ assume the status of a Euro-North American theory of human history that privileges the Greek–Roman classical world as the cradle of human civilisation in the process overshadowing the reality of Africa as the certified cradle of humankind?

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Author(s): Timothy Gerber-Mellish

Publication date (Print): 1 August 2019

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Timothy Gerber-Mellish

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Publication date (Print): 1 August 2019

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[1] Amin, S. (2009). Eurocentrism. 2nd ed. New York: Monthly Review Press.

[2] Black, J. (2014). Contesting History: Narratives of Public History. London: Bloomsbury.

[3] Blaut, J. (1993). The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. New York: The Guilford Press.

[4] Blaut, J. (1992). 1492: The Debate on Colonialism, Eurocentrism, and History. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

[5] Chukwuokolo, J. (2009). Afrocentrism or Eurocentrism: The Dilemma of African Development. OGIRISI: A New Journal of African Studies, 6(1). p.24–39

[6] Davies, N. (1997). Europe: A History. London: Pimlico.

[7] Diakonoff, I. (1999). The Paths of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[8] Dussel, E. (2000). Europe, Modernity, and Eurocentrism. Nepantla: Views from South, 1(3), p.465–478

[9] Fouskas, V. and Gökay, B. (2019). The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism. 1st ed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

[10] Frank, A. (1998). ReORIENT. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

[11] Google Maps. (2019). Google Maps. [online] Available at: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/[Accessed 11 Aug. 2019].

[12] Gökay, B. and Hamourtziadou, L. (2016). ‘Whiter than White’: Race and Otherness in Turkish and Greek National Identities. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 18(2), pp. 77–189.

[13] Griffiths, I. (1995). The African Inheritance. London and New York: Routledge.

[14] Hall, S. (1992). The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power. In: S. Hall and B. Gieben, eds., Formations of Modernity, 1st ed. Cambridge: Polity Press.

[15] Hamilton, P. and Shopes, L. (2008). Oral History and Public Memories. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

[16] Hattersley, A. (1946). A Short History of Western Civilisation. London: Cambridge University Press.

[17] Hoffman, P. (2015). Why did Europe Conquer the World? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

[18] Hoskins, L. (1992). Eurocentrism Vs. Afrocentrism. A Geopolitical Linkage Analysis. Journal of Black Studies, 23(2), pp.247–257.

[19] Kerner, I. (2018). Beyond Eurocentrism. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 44(5), pp. 550–570.

[20] Leontidou, L. (2004). The Boundaries of Europe: Deconstructing Three Regional Narratives. Identities, 11(4), pp.593–617.

[21] Lewis, M. and Wigen, K. (1997). The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.

[22] McCullagh, C. (1998). The Truth of History. London: Routledge.

[23] Powell, J. (1949). Herodotus. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[24] Sharman, J. (2018). Myths of military revolution: European expansion and Eurocentrism. European Journal of International Relations, 24(3), pp.491–513.

[25] Sharman, J. (2019). Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order. Princeton, NJ and Woodstock, UK: Princeton University Press.

[26] Starr, C. (1965). A History of the Ancient World. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.