The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, And the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (Sources and Studies in World History) Summary and Reviews

The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, And the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (Sources and Studies in World History)
by Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik

The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, And the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (Sources and Studies in World History)
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Author: Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-31
ISBN: 0765617099
Number of pages: 287
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

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Book Review: Overrated and full of hyperbole
Summary: 1 Stars

The authors have written a book with a clear-cut agenda--to force American students to recognize and overcome their evil "Eurocentric" biases. (The word "Eurocentric" too often today is code for racist.) While I do agree that there are other histories, other perspectives, trashing Europe, Europeans, and by extension Americans, to build up an argument for knowing about the Chinese, Aztecs, and Africans fails to impress. This book is the textual equivalent of shouting the loudest to gain the greatest attention, and that very hyperbole makes for a very bad book, both from reading and teaching perspectives. Furthermore, Pomeranz, who studies China, seems to be under the impression he's the only one who knows anything about China and the rest of us are totally ignorant on the subject. Anybody who has read ANY Jonathan Spence or Patricia Ebrey or John King Fairbank knows better--in every sense of that world. For India, read PJ Marshall, Barbara Stoller, or Richard Barnett; Africa, John Thorton and Linda Heywood, Philip Curtain, or David Northrup. Frankly, THE WORLD THAT TRADE CREATED is a polemic, not a history. One would more profitably spend time with Curtain's THE WEST AND THE WORLD.

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