EUROPEAN AND NON-EUROPEAN SOCIETIES, 1450-1800 by Robert Forster (Editor) ( 9780860785217 )

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Title:

EUROPEAN AND NON-EUROPEAN SOCIETIES, 1450-1800

Volume:

Volume I

By:

Robert Forster (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0860785211

ISBN 13:

9780860785217

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

11 December, 1997

Series:

An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450-1800 v. 27

Pages:

786

Description:

Twenty-five articles concentrate on the interaction of societies and cultures initially alien to one another. Conflict is an obvious interaction, but accommodation, adaptation, and institutional and behavioural synthesis were also present, though one-sided in favour of European norms.

Synopsis:

The process of European expansion brought into contact across the world societies and cultures initially alien to one another. Conflict, and violent conflict, was one aspect of this interaction, but accommodation, mutual adaptation, and institutional and behavioural synthesis were also present though often biased in favour of European norms. The intent of this book is to avoid treating 'colonization', 'dominance' and exploitation' as the only focuses of attention. In the first volume Robert Forster explores issues of formative influences, the impact of Eurocentrism on historiography and the reaction against it, and the differing approaches and perceptions of the Europeans, notably the Spanish, French and English. In this period he distinguishes three modes of interaction: that of the trading empires, generally in Africa and Asia, where the European control of the encounter was slighter; and those of the regions of settlement, as in North America, and of exploitation, typified by the Caribbean, where the European impact was profound. The second volume focuses on the Americas, and uses the topics of religion, class, gender, and race as its points of entry.

Illustrations:

index

Publication:

Imprint:

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Returns:

Returnable

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