Eurocentric or Europhobic?

[erudito]

There has been quite a wave of revisionist scholarship pointing out that Europe’s rise to global dominance was somewhat later, and owed much more to non-European influences, than is often realised. Scholars such as R. Bin Wong, Janet Abu Lughod, Kenneth Pomeranz have produced notable works in this field.

It is a reaction against scholarly

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[taavi]

I would say Gregory Bateson coined the phrase "learn how to learn", shortly after WW2. But it's not as if it's a hard phrase to come up with.
I suspect that the export of various diseases (eg Smallpox) by westerners probably wiped out more people than socialism. Certainly as a share of world population at the time.

Hmmm

[erudito]

Diseases: as a percentage of the population in the New World and Oceania, clearly. Some rephrasing might be in order.

I got the "learn how to learn" from DCS, but he may well have been quoting.