Europe and the third world, c.1500-1998
Subtitle: from colonization to decolonization
By: Bernard Waites.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Colonies; Europe -- Relations; Asia -- Civilization -- European influences; Africa -- Civilization -- Western influences; Latin America -- Civilization -- European influneces
Description: "Europe can be described as the monstrous shaper of world history. By incorporating overseas regions in their dependent empires and implanting their institutions and ideologies in alien cultures, Europeans inducted most of humanity into the international society of sovereign states. By promoting intercontinental trade, and coercing native labour into the productive enterprises they controlled abroad, Europeans disseminated Western market capitalism throughout the world." "In Europe and the Third World, Bernard Waites has written a stimulating analysis of Europe's role in world history that focuses on Western economic expansion into the regions loosely known as the 'Third World'."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-341) and index.