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03245aam a2200397 i 4500 001 0A38FF7A550D11E9884C074097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190402010148 008 180430s2019 nju b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018940067 020 $a 0691182795 020 $a 9780691182797 035 $a (OCoLC)1032673874 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d QGJ $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d TOH $d TFW $d BNG $d OBE $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ 050 4 $a D208 S53 2019 082 04 $a 900 100 1 $a Sharman, J. C. $q (Jason Campbell), $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Empires of the weak : $b the real story of European expansion and the creation of the new world order / $c J.C. Sharman 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xii, 196 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-189) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : The Military Revolution and the First International System -- Iberian Conquistadors and Supplicants -- Company Sovereigns and the Empires of the East -- The Asian Invasion of Europe in Context -- Conclusion : How the Europeans Won in the End (Before They Later Lost). 520 8 $a "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 advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans actually had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J.C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy earned by default because local land-oriented polities were largely indifferent to war and trade at sea. Europeans were overawed by the mighty Eastern empires of the day, which pioneered key military innovations and were the greatest early modern conquerors. Against the view that the Europeans won for all time, Sharman contends that the imperialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a relatively transient and anomalous development in world politics that concluded with Western losses in various insurgencies. If the twenty-first century is to be dominated by non-Western powers like China, this represents a return to the norm for the modern era. Bringing a revisionist perspective to the idea that Europe ruled the world due to military dominance, Empires of the Weak demonstrates that the rise of the West was an exception in the prevailing world order."--Dust jacket. 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 650 0 $a Imperialism $x History. 650 0 $a World politics. 651 0 $a Europe $x Foreign relations. 651 0 $a Europe $x Civilization. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305042929.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213015609.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20190507011025.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0A38FF7A550D11E9884C074097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search