Western empires, Christianity, and the inequalities between the West and the Rest, 1500-2010
By: Sampie Terreblanche
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 583
ISBN-13: 9780143539070
Subjects: International finance; Equality; Religious aspects; International Financial institutions; Capitalism; Imperialism; Western Civilization; Church history; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-562) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Western Maritime empires divide the world into a rich Western world and a poor Restern world; title: Reasons for the rise of the Western world in the centuries after 1500; title: Power configurations and the periodisation of Western empires (1500-2010); title: Profiling Western marine empires and understanding their unique characteristics; title: Western empires and the dynamics of social and imperial power over the past 500 years; title: Western industrialisation and the Great Divergence between the West and the Rest (1820-1950); title: Part II. The first pattern of Western Empires: empires of plunderers, slave traders and settlement colonialists 1530- 1830; title: The first period of deep systemic chaos: the Church in retreat, the yoke of feudalism breaks, two Europes; title: The systemic period of the Iberian and the Catholic empires 1530- 1630; title: The systemic period of the Dutch Empire 1648- 1713; title: The systemic period of the first British Empire 1713- 1883; title: Part III. The second pattern of Western empires: empires of exploitation and labour repression; title: The second period of deep systemic chaos: revolutionary upheavals against the ancién regime (1775-1820); title: The systemic period of the second British Empire (1846-1914/31); title: The origins of the third world during the second pattern of Western empires (1820-1945); title: Part 1V. The third pattern of Western empires: the pernicious draining of the Restern world by multiple American-led empires after the Second World War; title: The third period of deep systemic chaos during the Thirty-One Years War (1914-1945); title: Anti-systemic revolts against Western empires and decolonisation in the twentieth century; title: The multiple American post-colonial empires that inconspicuously disrupted, exploited and drained the Rest of the world after the Second World War; title: Part V. Capitalism and growing domestic inequalities during the past 500 years; title: Successive politico-economic systems and the almost uninterrupted dominanc of 'capitalisms' over 'democracies' since 1500.