How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence Daly Jonathan
How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence Daly Jonathan One thousand years ago, a traveler to Baghdad or the Chinese capital Kaifeng would have discovered a vast and flourishing…
Specifikacia How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence Daly Jonathan
How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence Daly Jonathan
One thousand years ago, a traveler to Baghdad or the Chinese capital Kaifeng would have discovered a vast and flourishing city of broad streets, spacious gardens, and sophisticated urban amenities; meanwhile, Paris, Rome, and London were cramped and unhygienic collections of villages, and Europe was a backwater. This is the central historical conundrum of modern times.How Europe Made the Modern World draws upon the latest scholarship dealing with the various aspects of the West's divergence, including geography, demography, technology, culture, institutions, science and economics. How, then, did it rise to world preeminence over the next several centuries?
It avoids the twin dangers of Eurocentrism and anti-Westernism, strongly emphasizing the contributions of other cultures of the world to the West's rise while rejecting the claim that there was nothing distinctive