The Dig: Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol
Jacobin Radio
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The East, European and Eastern, and What Impact Did That Corroborate?
Peter Bergen: Why did eastern elites fold when faced with narratives of european civilizational superiority? He asks, why were they so easily stigmatized by western actors? And what impact did that corroboration have on their development? Bergen: Theories of decline are to be found in the seventeenth century even though there has been a period of recovery.
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