The World and the West : The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire
Editorial Reviews
Review
'Informed, wide-ranging, illumined with case studies rather than blinding generalities, wise rather than ideological, relentlessly fascinating - world and comparative history come to maturity.' Alfred W. Crosby, author of Ecological Imperialism
'Philip Curtin is one of the ablest, most prolific storytellers of our time.' Mark D. W. Edington, The Boston Book Review
'Following the tradition of those who examine challenge and response in history, he identifies cultures which reacted uniquely to European encroachment, therefore providing the reader with delightful as well as informative vignettes of these distinctive responses.' Millennium
Book Description
This book is a study of the interaction of the Western societies of Europe and America with others around the world in the past two centuries--the age of European empire. Through a variety of case studies, it considers the European threat and the non-Western response, but the focus is on the ways in which people in Asia, African, and Indian America have tried to adapt their ways of life to the overwhelming European power of the period.
The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire,Philip D. Curtin,Cambridge University Press,0521890543,Europe - General,History,History - General History,History: World,Modern - 20th Century,Renaissance,Civilization, Modern--European influences,Europe,History / Renaissance,Imperialism,World history: c 1750 to c 1900,World history: from c 1900 -
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