Social Conflict, Social Change, Social History - General & Miscellaneous, Civilization - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
This book is a study of the interaction of the Western societies of Europe and America with others around the world in the past two centuries—the age of European empire. Through a variety of case studies, it considers the European threat and the non-Western response, but the focus is on the ways in which people in Asia, African, and Indian America have tried to adapt their ways of life to the overwhelming European power of the period.
Editorials
Edington
Philip Curtin has written a collection of provocative and learned essays examining, from a range of viewpoints, the complex interactions of empire and local cultures. It is left for readers not so much to admire his finished tapestry as to watch him at the weaver's loom, shaping richly textured and minutely detailed pieces of a larger image we are left to arrange for ourselves.—The Boston Book Review
Book Details
Published
February 25, 2002
Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Pages
310
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780521890540