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008			141120s2015 njuab b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2014045170
020			_a9780691139708 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC
082	0	0	_a909.08 _223
100	1		_aHoffman, Philip T., _d1947- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWhy did Europe conquer the world? / _cPhilip T. Hoffman.
250			_a1 st ed.
264		1	_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2015]
300			_a272 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
365			_2USD _aUSD _b29.95 _cUSD _d1 USD = 70.6
490	0		_aThe Princeton economic history of the Western world
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-261) and index.
520			_aBetween 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.
650		0	_aBalance of power.
650		0	_aTechnology and state _zEurope _xHistory.
651		0	_aEurope _xForeign relations _xHistory.
651		0	_aEurope _xMilitary policy.
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