TY - JOUR AU - Ru, Sung Hee PY - 2017/08/11 Y2 - 2024/03/19 TI - Review of How the West Came to Rule JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 23 IS - 2 SE - Book Reviews DO - 10.5195/jwsr.2017.673 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/673 SP - 758-761 AB - This is a book which invites us to reconsider what we thought we knew and understood about a Europe’s rise. It examines the historical origin of Europe’s capitalism in the growing call for internationality that can explain the uneven and combined histories of European and non-European regions. This view asks us to use the lens of relational and hierarchical perspectives, which contain various types of interconnected narratives between European and non-European regions in Europe’s exceptional rise, instead of accepting the self-generating development of the West. ER -