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Why Did Europe Conquer the World? /

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanat...

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Autor principal: Hoffman, Philip T., 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction -- How the Tournament in Early Modern Europe Made Conquest Possible -- Why the Rest of Eurasia Fell Behind -- Ultimate Causes : Explaining the Difference between Western Europe and the Rest of Eurasia -- From the Gunpowder Technology to Private Expeditions -- Technological Change and Armed Peace in Nineteenth-Century Europe -- Conclusion : The Price of Conquest -- Appendix A : Model of War and Technical Change via Learning by Doing -- Appendix B : Using Prices to Measure Productivity Growth in the Military Sector -- Appendix C : Model of Political Learning -- Appendix D : Data for Tables 4.1 and 4.2 -- Appendix E : Model of Armed Peace and Technical Change via Research. 
520 |a Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations-such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution-fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy. 
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