Europe, what Europe?
Colin Kidd: J.G.A. Pocock, 6 November 2008
The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 344 pp., £18.99, September 2005,9780521616454 Show More
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 344 pp., £18.99, September 2005,
Barbarism and Religion. Vol. III: The First Decline and Fall
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 527 pp., £19.99, October 2005,0 521 67233 3 Show More
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 527 pp., £19.99, October 2005,
Barbarism and Religion. Vol. IV: Barbarians, Savages and Empires
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 372 pp., £17.99, February 2008,978 0 521 72101 1 Show More
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 372 pp., £17.99, February 2008,
“... worlds. Behind Gibbon’s vision of the Old World, Pocock shows, was the French Orientalist Joseph De Guignes’s Histoire générale des Huns, des Turcs, des Mogols et des autres Tartares occidentaux (1756-58). Notwithstanding the prevailing legend that the story of Oriental despotism was one of stasis and torpor, ... ”