Monographie

Why did Europe conquer the world ? / Philip T. Hoffman

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Titre(s)
  • Why did Europe conquer the world ? / Philip T. Hoffman
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  • Why did Europe conquer the world ?
Auteur(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • Princeton : Oxford : Princeton University Press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (272 p.) : cartes ; 25 cm
Collection
  • The Princeton economic history of the Western world
ISBN
  • 978-0-691-13970-8
  • 978-0-691-17584-3
  • 0-691-13970-9
EAN
  • 9780691139708 rel.
  • 9780691175843 br.
Appartient à la collection
  • The Princeton economic history of the Western world
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 909.08
Note sur l'édition et l'histoire bibliographique
  • Autre tirage : 2017 (édition brochée)
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 241-261. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • La jaquette indique : "In vivid detail, Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development and military rivalry. Compared to their counterparts in China, Japan, South Asia, and the Middle East, European leaders--whether chiefs, lords, kings, emperors, or prime ministers--had radically different incentives, which drove them to make war. These incentives, which Hoffman explores using an economic model of political costs and financial resources, resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector from the Middle Ages on, 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."
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