Название: Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World OrderАвтор: Jason Sharman
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf, epub, mobi
Страниц: 216
Размер: 10,89 Мб
Язык: английский
Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans actually had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy earned by default because local land-oriented polities were largely indifferent to war and trade at sea. Europeans were overawed by the mighty Eastern empires of the day, which pioneered key military innovations and were the greatest early modern conquerors.