For Teachers: Lessons
Rethinking the rise of the West: The Great Divergence Debate
Konstantin Georgidis, Canterbury School, Ft. Myers, Florida
INTRODUCTION
Procedure
- Announce that the class will embark upon a program of investigation of the reasons which explain the dominance of the West in global affairs in the 19th and twentieth centuries.
- Divide the class into pairs. Each pair undertakes to become familiar with the views of one of the following scholars:
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- David Landes
- Andre Gunder Frank
- Bin Wong
- Kenneth Pomeranz
- Peer Vries
- Philip C. C. Huang