02987nam a2200289   450000500170000000800050001702000180002204000180004008200120005810000350007024501210010526400420022630000450026833600260031333700280033933800270036750400680039450509570046250510590141965000250247865000270250365000360253065000520256665000230261865000360264165000200267720241105073037.0eng   a9780143539070  aRDAbengcRDA  a325.32 1 aTerreblanche, Sampie,eauthor.10aWestern empires, Christianity, and the inequalities between the West and the Rest, 1500-2010 /cSampie Terreblanche. 1aJohannesburg :bPenguin Books,c2014.  axiv, 583 pages :billustrations ;c23 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 553-562)and indexes.0 aPart I. Western Maritime empires divide the world into a rich Western world and a poor Restern world -- Reasons for the rise of the Western world in the centuries after 1500 -- Power configurations and the periodisation of Western empires (1500-2010) -- Profiling Western marine empires and understanding their unique characteristics -- Western empires and the dynamics of social and imperial power over the past 500 years -- Western industrialisation and the Great Divergence between the West and the Rest (1820-1950) -- Part II. The first pattern of Western Empires: empires of plunderers, slave traders and settlement colonialists 1530- 1830 -- The first period of deep systemic chaos:  the Church in retreat,  the yoke of feudalism breaks,  two Europes --  The systemic period of the Iberian and the Catholic empires 1530- 1630  --  The systemic period of the Dutch Empire 1648-  1713 --  The systemic period of the first British Empire 1713- 1883.0 aPart 111. The second pattern of Western empires: empires of exploitation and labour repression -- The second period of deep systemic chaos: revolutionary upheavals against the ancién regime (1775-1820) -- The systemic period of the second British Empire (1846-1914/31) -- The origins of the third world during the second pattern of Western empires (1820-1945) -- Part 1V. The third pattern of Western empires: the pernicious draining of the Restern world by multiple American-led empires after the Second World War -- The third period of deep systemic chaos during the Thirty-One Years War (1914-1945) -- Anti-systemic revolts against Western empires and decolonisation in the twentieth century -- The multiple American post-colonial empires that inconspicuously disrupted, exploited and drained the Rest of the world after the Second World War -- Part V. Capitalism and growing domestic inequalities during the past 500 years -- Successive politico-economic systems and the almost uninterrupted dominanc of 'capitalisms' over 'democracies' since 1500. 0aCapitalismxHistory. 0aCivilization, Western. 0aInternational financexHistory. 0aFinancial institutions, InternationalxHistory. 0aEqualityxHistory. 0aImperialismxReligious aspects. 0aChurch history.