Eurocentrism, national curricula, and the limits of a corrective argument

Hobson repeatedly uses the phrase "Eurocentric myth", a framing that Clarke questions while accepting the importance of ideas moving between societies. His objection is that teaching a European country's history from a European perspective does not by itself establish a historical myth. Available sources influence what can be taught, and governments tend to give national events priority in the curriculum. He regards much of the dispute over Eurocentrism as political and social-media argument, while still finding the book's historical material worthwhile.