Product Description: This volume examines and critiques the work of a diverse group of Eurocentric historians who have strongly shaped our understanding of world history. Building upon the foundations laid in his previous book, The Colonizer's Model of the World, which provided a systematic overview of the nature and evolution of Eurocentrism, Blaut focuses in depth on Max Weber, Lynn White, Jr...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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.

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Product Description: Understanding the forces involved in the nationalist struggles in the modern world is the aim of this book. Blaut takes issue with theorists, non-Marxists and Marxists, alike- who conceive of nationalism either as some kind of autonomous force in society, or as representing only the interest of a new bourgeois class trying to take control of the state...read more