Explorations: Animal Farm: Long Term History: America: Why did Europeans conquer the New World and not the other way round?
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
In answer to David Dugan, Joel Mokyr reflects on the dominance of Europeans and why it was they, rather than people's in other continents, who expanded outwards. The particular case of the Chinese and the halt to their early explorations is discussed. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-11 17:26 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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