Philip D. Curtin (The Johns Hopkins University)

The World and the West

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a study of the interaction of the West with the rest of the world in the age of European empire. Its focus is on the ways in which people in Asia, Africa, and Indian America have tried to adapt to the overwhelming power of Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780521890540
• ISBN-10: 0521890543
• Artikelnr.: 22467267

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.