The River of Inter-civilisational Relations: the ebb and flow of peoples, ideas and innovations

Bowden, Brett

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The River of Inter-civilisational Relations: the ebb and flow of peoples, ideas and innovations

Date

2007

Authors

Bowden, Brett

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

As a tool for understanding the world in which we live the study of the history of political thought is stunted because of a preoccupation with the Western canon as the history of political thought to the exclusion of other histories and traditions. This