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9780521890540

The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521890540

  • ISBN10:

    0521890543

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-02-25
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Philip D. Curtin is Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of History, Emeritus, at The Johns Hopkins University.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Part One Conquest 1(52)
The Pattern of Empire
3(16)
Technology and Power
19(19)
The Politics of Imperialism
38(15)
Part Two Culture Change and Imperial Rule 53(56)
Culture Change in Plural Societies: South Africa and Central Asia
57(16)
Culture Change in Mexico
73(19)
Administrative Choices and Their Consequences: Examples from Bengal, Central Asia, Java, and Malaya
92(17)
Part Three Conversion 109(84)
Christian Missions in East Africa
111(17)
Varieties of Defensive Modernization
128(28)
Meiji Japan: Revolutionary Modernization
156(17)
Ottoman Reactions to the West
173(20)
Part Four Independence and the Liquidation of Empires 193(82)
Non-European Resistance and the European Withdrawal
195(18)
Personal and Utopian Responses
213(19)
The Search for Viable Independence: Indonesia
232(21)
Paths to Viable Independence: Ghana
253(22)
Afterword 275(4)
Index 279

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