Philip Curtin, Curtin Philip D.

The World and the West

The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the interaction between the empire-building West and the rest of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 659g
• ISBN-13: 9780521771351
• ISBN-10: 0521771358
• Artikelnr.: 21960127

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Conquest: 1. The Pattern of Empire
2. Technology and power
3. The politics of Imperialism
Part II. Culture Change under Imperial Rule: 4. Culture change in plural societies: South Africa and Central Asia
5. Culture change in Mexico
6. Administrative choices and their consequences: examples from Bengal, Central Asia, Java, and Malaya
Part III. Conversion: 7. Christian missions in East Africa
8. Varieties of defensive modernization
9. Meiji Japan: revolutionary modernization
10. Ottoman reactions to the West
Part IV. The Drive for Independence and the Liquidation of Empires: 11. Non-European resistance and the European withdrawal
12. Personal and utopian responses: millenarianism
13. The search for viable independence: Indonesia
14. Paths to viable independence: Ghana.