Establishment of the European Hegemony, 1415-1715: Trade and Exporation in the Age of The...

by John H. Parry

Book Overview

Explores the motives of European nations to expand overseas, and probes the social and technical skills that made the expansion so successful.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006131045X
• ISBN13: 9780061310454
• Release Date: January 1961
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Everything up For Grabs

This is a very interesting book. Short, but interesting. Parry goes over how various Europeans, notably the Portugese and the British, basically took control of sea-borne commerce and arduously hacked out control of enough land-based choke points to produce the situation we still see today, where it seems perfectly normal that Europe, and then the United States, controls almost everything significant in the world.But this same history shows how this dominance, or hegemony, is not automatic, and won't last forever. Histories like this help us see behind and around our current world situation, which makes us more ready to see the future, or to grab it.