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The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.: Why Did Europe Conquer the World? by Philip T. Hoffman (2017, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691175845
ISBN-139780691175843
eBay Product ID (ePID)234955010
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameWhy Did Europe Conquer the World?
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
SubjectPublic Policy / Military Policy, Economic History, History & Theory, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, International Relations / General, World, Security (National & International)
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorPhilip T. Hoffman
SeriesThe Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.1 in
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ReviewsA hugely ambitious book and one that no scholar analyzing transitions in global history can overlook. It is a daunting task to attempt such an endeavor, let alone succeed as Hoffman has. [ How Did Europe Conquer the World? ] will change interpretations of European warfare, the financing of conflicts, transitions in other regions of the world, the causes of the Industrial Revolution, and the Great Divergence--topics that are at the forefront of history, economics, and political science today. . . . Impressive and persuasive. . . . [T]his book is a classic of economic history, which should be required reading. ---Jari Eloranta, EH.net, "Why did Europe conquer the world? Philip Hoffman offers striking new answers to this old question. Hoffman's short answer is gunpowder or military technology. His longer answer is more unsettling: the political and geographical forces that made Europe's precocious economic development possible were inseparable from the arms race which enabled European states to win wars." --Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Eating People is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future, "Big-picture economic history at its best. Hoffman's answer: chronic military conflict that gave European leaders incentives to harness widely known gunpowder technologies more effectively than leaders in other parts of the world. Also a good reminder of what economic history brings to today's economic and political table." ---Barry Eichengreen, Bloomberg Businessweek, "Big-picture economic history at its best. Hoffman's answer: chronic military conflict that gave European leaders incentives to harness widely known gunpowder technologies more effectively than leaders in other parts of the world. Also a good reminder of what economic history brings to today's economic and political table." ---Barry Eichengreen, Bloomberg Businessweek,, "Phillip Hoffman's book answers a question that economic historians have neglected: Why did Europe conquer the world starting about five hundred years ago? Hoffman stresses how incentives made Europe's princes unusually bellicose and willing to promote improvements in war technology. Combining wide reading, the judicious use of data, and economic models that distinguish Hoffman's explanation from that of earlier historians, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? represents the very best in economic history." 'e"Timothy Guinnane, Yale University, "Hoffman makes an exceptionally stimulating intervention in the long-running debate on the 'great divergence' . . . . Thought-provoking, deeply informed and marvellously readable, [this] is a major contribution to the still pioneering field of comparative global history." ---John Darwin, English Historical Review, "Beginning with the Spanish and Portuguese in the late fifteenth century, technological military superiority appears to have been the proximate cause of Europe's ever-expanding military dominance for the next five centuries. Where did this technological superiority come from? The answer provided in this convincing and tightly argued book is interesting and as definitive as such answers get." --Stergios Skaperdas, University of California, Irvine, Big-picture economic history at its best. Hoffman's answer: chronic military conflict that gave European leaders incentives to harness widely known gunpowder technologies more effectively than leaders in other parts of the world. Also a good reminder of what economic history brings to today's economic and political table. ---Barry Eichengreen, Bloomberg Businessweek,, A powerful argument that resonates strongly with recent work in international political economy (Herman Schwartz) and political science (Ned Lebow)., "An intriguing and compelling contribution to the riveting debate on the causes of European hegemony in the world over the last five hundred years." ---Seneer Aktürk, Insight Turkey, "Phillip Hoffman's book answers a question that economic historians have neglected: Why did Europe conquer the world starting about five hundred years ago? Hoffman stresses how incentives made Europe's princes unusually bellicose and willing to promote improvements in war technology. Combining wide reading, the judicious use of data, and economic models that distinguish Hoffman's explanation from that of earlier historians, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? represents the very best in economic history." --Timothy Guinnane, Yale University, "A hugely ambitious book and one that no scholar analyzing transitions in global history can overlook. It is a daunting task to attempt such an endeavor, let alone succeed as Hoffman has. [ How Did Europe Conquer the World? ] will change interpretations of European warfare, the financing of conflicts, transitions in other regions of the world, the causes of the Industrial Revolution, and the Great Divergence--topics that are at the forefront of history, economics, and political science today. . . . Impressive and persuasive. . . . [T]his book is a classic of economic history, which should be required reading." ---Jari Eloranta, EH.net, In a brilliant analysis, Hoffman demonstrates the dynamic interaction between the financing of the war, the innovation in warfare technology, and the political institutions, which sparked the race toward colonization and prepared the UK for the Industrial Revolution. [An] ambitious study. ---Lisa Kaaki, Arab News, "Beginning with the Spanish and Portuguese in the late fifteenth century, technological military superiority appears to have been the proximate cause of Europe's ever-expanding military dominance for the next five centuries. Where did this technological superiority come from? The answer provided in this convincing and tightly argued book is interesting and as definitive as such answers get." 'e"Stergios Skaperdas, University of California, Irvine, [ Why Did Europe Conquer the World? ] is a very interesting addition to the flourishing history of the world genre. ---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist, An intriguing and compelling contribution to the riveting debate on the causes of European hegemony in the world over the last five hundred years. ---Seneer Aktürk, Insight Turkey, "Why did Europe conquer the world? Philip Hoffman offers striking new answers to this old question. Hoffman's short answer is gunpowder or military technology. His longer answer is more unsettling: the political and geographical forces that made Europe's precocious economic development possible were inseparable from the arms race which enabled European states to win wars." 'e"Cormac Ã" Gráda, author of Eating People is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future, History and counterfactuals blend into a fluent thesis, underpinned by diverting tables of data. ---Martin Vander Weyer, Daily Telegraph, "[ Why Did Europe Conquer the World? ] is a very interesting addition to the flourishing history of the world genre." ---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist, "Philip Hoffman upends the traditional story of why western Europe conquered the world. His elegant econometric model shows that by fighting constant wars with each other and never allowing a single hegemon to emerge, Western polities had greater incentives and opportunities to improve their military technology than their counterparts elsewhere. Anyone wanting to understand how economic theories are changing the ways we look at the past needs to read this book." --Daniel Chirot, University of Washington, "History and counterfactuals blend into a fluent thesis, underpinned by diverting tables of data." ---Martin Vander Weyer, Daily Telegraph, "Philip Hoffman upends the traditional story of why western Europe conquered the world. His elegant econometric model shows that by fighting constant wars with each other and never allowing a single hegemon to emerge, Western polities had greater incentives and opportunities to improve their military technology than their counterparts elsewhere. Anyone wanting to understand how economic theories are changing the ways we look at the past needs to read this book." 'e"Daniel Chirot, University of Washington, "In a brilliant analysis, Hoffman demonstrates the dynamic interaction between the financing of the war, the innovation in warfare technology, and the political institutions, which sparked the race toward colonization and prepared the UK for the Industrial Revolution. [An] ambitious study." ---Lisa Kaaki, Arab News
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number54
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal909.08
SynopsisBetween 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations--such as geography, epidemic disease, and the, Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations--such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution--fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, 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. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy., The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World? , Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations--such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution--fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, 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. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.
LC Classification NumberD217.H596 2017
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