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Title: The World and the West : The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire by Philip D. Curtin ISBN: 0-521-89054-3 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 25 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Comprehensible Comparative History
Comment: As a graduate student of Near Eastern Studies, with an extreme interest in world history, I found Curtin's book both enlightening and pleasurable. The first part of his book offers a background from which his numerous case studies find their premise. The case studies themselves are the highlight of the book; collectively a masterpiece of comparative history, they offer both insight on the relativity to processes simultaneously occuring around the world, as well as patterns in society trends. All in all, I found this piece of work to be a wonderful read for any student or professor of both world and comparative history.
Rating: 5
Summary: A totally new look on Westernization
Comment: Philip Curtin greatest tribute to history is to review 500 years of Western influence across the World with new eyes. Instead of a Eurocentered vision of the World (we civilized them all) or an anti-imperialist vision (everything the West has done is bad), he studies the 500 years of colonization in 4 steps.
First, the conquest and how Europe took over the world. Basically prior to 1800, Europe only held a global string of outposts and it is after that date the European empires really become territorial. He also describes the impact of technology (medical science, a fundamental element for White men survival under the tropics) and the various politics of imperialism.
Second, the cultural impact on different types societies all around the globe: America, Africa, Asia. Third how Europe tries to convert the World to its creed and how the World adopts some elements while rejects other. And fourth, how the colonies, semi-colonies or states influenced by Europe (Thailand, Japan) regain their independance, the type of responses (resistance: personal, utopian, revolutionnary) and how to succeed after the Europeans are gone.
At the end of each chapter, the reader receives a list of recommanded books for further personal investigation (and there are many new paths to explore). And when the book is finished one as a better understanding of cultural relations, impact of colonization, possible paths of resistance against an agression, the internal mechanisms of a local society and how its cope with a foreign phenomenon, etc...
A key book for the 21st century, not the definitive book about the subject but definitively the one offering a sweeping global vision on the subject for the first time.
Rating: 1
Summary: wholly inadequate
Comment: Slapdash research, shallow thinking, dull writing.
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Title: The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative by Robert B. Marks ISBN: 0742517543 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. by Kenneth Pomeranz ISBN: 0691090106 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 03 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis ISBN: 1859843824 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The World That Trade Created : Culture, Society and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present by Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik ISBN: 0765602504 Publisher: M.E.Sharpe Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study by Orlando Patterson ISBN: 067481083X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1985 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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