Why Did Europe Conquer the World? - by Philip T. Hoffman

 

Book Description

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.

Product Details

ASIN : 0691139709

Publisher : Princeton University Press; First Edition (June 30, 2015)

Language: : English

Hardcover : 288 pages

ISBN-10 : 9780691139708

ISBN-13 : 978-0691139708

Item Weight : 1.19 pounds

Dimensions : 6.1 x 1 x 9.3 inches

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