The world and the west : the European challenge and the overseas response in the age of empire / Philip D. Curtin.
Curtin, Philip D.
2002
CB417 .C87 2002 (Mapit)
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Title The world and the west : the European challenge and the overseas response in the age of empire / Philip D. Curtin.
Author Curtin, Philip D.
Edition 1st pbk. ed.
ISBN 9780521890540 (pbk.)
0521890543 (pbk.)
Imprint Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Language English
Description xiv, 294 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number CB417 .C87 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 909.82
Note Originally published: 2000.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part one
Conquest
The pattern of empire
Technology and power
The politics of imperialism
Part two
Culture change and imperial rule
Culture change in plural societies: South Africa and Central Asia
Culture change in Mexico
Administrative choices and their consequences: examples from Bengal, Central Asia, Java, and Malaya
Part three
Conversion
Christian mission in East Africa
Varieties of defensive modernization
Meiji Japan: Revolutionary modernization
Ottoman reactions to the West
Part four
Independence and the liquidation of empires
Non-European resistance and the European withdrawal
Personal and utopian resources
The search for viable independence: Indonesia
Paths to viable independence: Ghana.

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