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Author : Boyd C. Shafer
Release : 1974
Genre : Colonies
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Book Rating : 822/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion: Uncertain dimensions by : Boyd C. Shafer
Download or read book Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion: Uncertain dimensions written by Boyd C. Shafer. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond F. Betts
Release : 1985
Genre : Colonies
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Book Rating : 087/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Uncertain Dimensions by : Raymond F. Betts
Download or read book Uncertain Dimensions written by Raymond F. Betts. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncertain Dimensions was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. World War I battered the Western imperial systems and destroyed one, that of Germany, but it did not sound the death knell of an empire. The ""scramble"" for overseas territory ha reached a virtual conclusion shortly before the war; afterwards, the main business of empire was to ensure a pax colonia: the often contradictory goals of a stable government and.
Author : National Intelligence Council
Release : 2021-03
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Book Rating : 973/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Global Trends 2040 by : National Intelligence Council
Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council. This book was released on 2021-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Author : Lyle N. McAlister
Release : 1984
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 by : Lyle N. McAlister
Download or read book Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 written by Lyle N. McAlister. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish and Portuguese expansion substantially altered the social, political, and economic contours of the modern world. In his book, Lyle McAlister provides a narrative and interpretive history of the exploration and settlement of the Americas by Spain and Portugal. McAlister divides this period (and the book) into three parts. First, he describes the formation of Old World societies with particular attention to those features that influenced the directions and forms of overseas expansion. Second, he traces the dynamic processes of conquest and colonization that between 1492 and about 1570 firmly established Spanish and Portuguese dominion in the New World. The third part deals with colonial growth and consolidation down to about 1700. McAlister's main themes are: the post-conquest territorial expansion that established the limits of what later came to be called Latin America, the emergence of distinctively Spanish and Portuguese American societies and economies, the formation of systems of imperial control and exploitation, and the ways in which conflicts between imperial and American interests were reconciled. This comprehensive history, with its extensive bibliographic essay and attention to historiographic issues, will be a standard reference for students and scholars of the period.
Author : Ernest Stanley Dodge
Release : 1976
Genre : China
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Book Rating : 222/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Islands and Empires by : Ernest Stanley Dodge
Download or read book Islands and Empires written by Ernest Stanley Dodge. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Islands and Empires "was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is the first one-volume account of the massive impact of Western civilization on the Pacific Islands and the Far East, principally China and Japan. The effects on the two areas were very different since, in the case of the islands, contact was with peoples who were still in the Stone Age, while in the Far East Westerners came up against sophisticated civilizations more ancient and mature than their own. Because of these differences, the book is divided into two sections, the first dealing with the Pacific Islands and the second with the East Asian mainland. Reverse influences--those of the Eastern cultures on the West--are also discussed.
