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020 _a9780143539070
040 _aRDA
_beng
_cRDA
082 _a325.32
100 1 _aTerreblanche, Sampie,
_eauthor.
_9190414
245 1 0 _aWestern empires, Christianity, and the inequalities between the West and the Rest, 1500-2010 /
_cSampie Terreblanche.
264 1 _aJohannesburg :
_bPenguin Books,
_c2014.
300 _axiv, 583 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 553-562)and indexes.
505 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.
505 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 anciƩn 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.
650 0 _aCapitalism
_xHistory.
_9190415
650 0 _aCivilization, Western.
_9190416
650 0 _aInternational finance
_xHistory.
_9190417
650 0 _aFinancial institutions, International
_xHistory.
_9190418
650 0 _aEquality
_xHistory.
_9190419
650 0 _aImperialism
_xReligious aspects.
_9190420
650 0 _aChurch history.
_9190421
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
_k325.32
_mTERR
_w496
_xChrisna Calitz
_y496
_zChrisna Calitz
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