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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2020

Hendrik Spruyt
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
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Early modern international societies beyond Europe were based on shared sets of beliefs that differed dramatically from Western views regarding the nature of the material and social world. However, the encounter of the West with non-European international societies was not an encounter between two rigidly defined static systems. Instead, both Western and non-Western polities redefined their identities as well as the political-social expression of those identities in the dyadic encounter.

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The World Imagined
Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies
, pp. 1 - 12
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Introduction
  • Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University, Illinois
  • Book: The World Imagined
  • Online publication: 18 June 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108867948.002
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  • Introduction
  • Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University, Illinois
  • Book: The World Imagined
  • Online publication: 18 June 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108867948.002
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  • Introduction
  • Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University, Illinois
  • Book: The World Imagined
  • Online publication: 18 June 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108867948.002
Available formats
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