James and Andrew discuss different ways of splitting up the world, and what they tell us about the way their proponents see the world.

Sources/Links:

Rome: https://europe.factsanddetails.com/article/entry-1087.html

China: Rome, China, and the Barbarians Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires by Randolph B. Ford

European Colonialism: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1mf71b8.7?seq=1

Edward Said - Orientalism

Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities

John Lewis Gaddis - The Cold War: A New History Samuel Huntington - Clash of Civilisations

Immanuel Wallerstein - The Modern World System

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elia-j-ayoub-the-periphery-has-no-time-for-binaries

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