The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric HistoryGuilford Publications, 29 oct. 1993 - 246 pages The Colonizer's Model of the World challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time concerning world history and world geography. This is the doctrine of European diffusionism, the belief that the rise of Europe to modernity and world dominance is due to some unique European quality of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world results from the diffusion of European civilization. J. M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of history and geography, but in the ideology of colonialism. It is the world model that Europeans constructed to explain, justify, and assist their colonial expansion. This highly readable, illuminating volume will challenge and inform a broad audience that includes general readers. Disputing fundamental ideas in geography, history, anthropology, and the humanities, it is essential reading for professors and students in these fields. |
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History Inside | 1 |
The Colonizers Model | 17 |
World Models and Worldly Interests | 30 |
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accepted accumulation Africa America ancient argue argument Asia Asian assert Baechler basic belief system Blaut Brenner C. L. R. James capitalist causal centers Chapter China Chinese civilizations claim classical colonial critique crucial cultural diffusion diffusionism diffusionist discussed doctrine early Eastern Hemisphere economic elite empirical enterprise environment ethnoscience Eurocentric Europe Europe's European miracle explain extra-European fact farmers farming feudal geography historians human ideas important India Industrial Revolution innovation invented irrigation Jones labor land mainly Malthusian Mann Marx Marxists matter Max Weber medieval Medieval Technology Michael Mann Middle Ages mode of production modern myth natural nineteenth century non-Europe notion Oriental despotism pattern peasant perhaps period plantation political population primitive progress proposition protocapitalist racism rationality regions rise of capitalism rise of Europe scholars shifting agriculture sixteenth century slave trade social societies soils superiority textbooks theory traditional tropical unique urban Weber West Western world history