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Eight: Eurocentric Historians. By J. M. Blaut. New York: Guilford Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 227. $22.00, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2001

Joel Mokyr
Joel Mokyr
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Northwestern University
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Abstract

The late J. M. Blaut, a geographer who passed away in November 2000, had a pet theory. Europe's political and economic domination of the rest of the world in the past four centuries or so was due to a single event: the almost happenstance discovery of America's treasures in 1492 by Europeans, who then used these resources to subjugate the rest of the world and to create a capitalist system that produced the Enlightenment, modern science, the Industrial Revolution, and all the rest.

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BOOK REVIEW
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 583 - 584
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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