The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

by J. M. Blaut
ISBN-10:
0898623480
ISBN-13:
9780898623482
Pub. Date:
10/29/1993
Publisher:
Guilford Publications, Inc.
ISBN-10:
0898623480
ISBN-13:
9780898623482
Pub. Date:
10/29/1993
Publisher:
Guilford Publications, Inc.
The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

by J. M. Blaut
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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780898623482
Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Publication date: 10/29/1993
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 246
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

J. M. Blaut, PhD, until his death in 2000, was Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The author of The Colonizer's Model of the World and Eight Eurocentric Historians, Dr. Blaut was a recipient of the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Awards in his name are given annually by the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group and the Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG.

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Janet Abu-Lughod

Absolutely spell binding...it is strongly argued, alternative interpretation of the basic causes for the rise of the west...
—Janet Abu-Lughod, author of the Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350

Martin Bernao

Professor Blaut's book contains devastating refutations as many of the following theories that have attempted to establish a long term unique superiority of Europe...He has made an irrefutable case for the importance of the conquest and exploitation of America after 1492 to the rise of modern Europe power and culture. His arguments are always stimulating...
&#!51;Martin Bernao, author or Black Athena

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