- Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the . . .
Bringing a revisionist perspective to the idea that Europe ruled the world due to military dominance, Empires of the Weak demonstrates that the rise of the West was an exception in the prevailing world order
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“In Empires of the Weak, J C Sharman persuasively shows that the triumphalist narrative of European dominance over ‘backward’ polities in Asia, Africa, and the Americas is wrong Moreover, Sharman challenges the conventional understanding of competition and military innovation
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Echoing Pomeranz, Sharman posits that Europeans had no technological or institutional advantage over Asian land empires before the Industrial Revolution even if Asian polities were less interested in naval expansion
- J. C. Sharman Empires of the Weak. The Real Story of European Expansion . . .
Sharman touches upon the Spanish and Portuguese expansion in the “New World” and Africa, examines Asian powers such as the Ottoman, Mughal, Ming, and Qing empires, and explores Dutch and English activities, conflicts, battles, wars, and conquests in Asia
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Against the view that the Europeans won for all time, Sharman contends that the imperialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a relatively transient and anomalous development in world politics that concluded with Western losses in various insurgencies
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Against the view that the Europeans won for all time, Sharman contends that the imperialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a relatively transient and anomalous development in world politics that concluded with Western losses in various insurgencies
- Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the . . .
Bringing a revisionist perspective to the idea that Europe ruled the world due to military dominance, Empires of the Weak demonstrates that the rise of the West was an exception in the
- J. C. Sharman, Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion . . .
also proved at times less advantageous than commonly believed At the same time, Sharman challenges related hypotheses of the role of European states in military and commercial conquest
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