The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

ISBN-13: 9780898623482 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 246 str.

Blaut, J. M.

Opis

This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted 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. Blaut traces the colonizer's model of the world from its 16th-century origins to its present form in theories of economic development, modernization, and new world order.

Recenzje

"...an engaging book...a clear and accessible style, generally valid assertions, and an explicit sense of geography. The book serves as a valuable foil against a persistent Eurocentric bias in historical interpretation--effectively challenging how we look at the world." - The Professional Geographer

"Professor Blaut's book contains devastating refutations of many of the scholarly theories that have attempted to establish a long-term unique superiority of Europe on the basis of its geographical features and climate or the special independence, rationality, or restraint of its population. He has made an irrefutable case for the importance of the conquest and exploitation of America after 1492 to the rise of modern European power and culture. His arguments are always stimulating and often convincing." - Martin Bernal, Cornell University

O autorze

J. M. Blaut, PhD, until his death in 2000, was Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The author of The Colonizer's Model of the World and Eight Eurocentric Historians, Dr. Blaut was a recipient of the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Awards in his name are given annually by the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group and the Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG.