PublishedPrinceton University Press, January 2019 |
ISBN9780691182797 |
FormatHardcover, 216 pages |
Dimensions23.5cm × 15.5cm |
How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order
What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive a