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Lädt ... To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Changevon Alfred W. McCoy
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  RajivC | May 24, 2024 |   Fortunately, things picked up when he dived into the "British Imperial Era", "Washington's World Order", and "Twenty-First Century and Beyond". Because I live in the present, I was more into the latter half of the book. And I found his prediction interesting that China will be the world leader around 2030 but its time of the world stage will last only about 20 years because of Climate Change. The other book I read by McCoy, IN THE SHADOWS OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY: THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY OF U.S. GLOBAL POWER, was much better. More focused and I don't remember the prose being so bone-dry. One cool thing about TO GOVER THE GLOBE is that it reminded me of a book review I read years ago, IMPERIAL TWILIGHT: THE OPIUM WAR AND THE END OF CHINA'S LAST GOLDER AGE by Stephen R. Platt (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/books/review/stephen-r-platt-imperial-twilight.html). I reserved that book at the library. (  ) JohnnyOstentatious | Feb 28, 2022 | Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led to the development of the colonial sugar plantation as a uniquely profitable kind of commerce. In a time when issues of race and social justice have arisen with pressing urgency, the book explains how the plantation's extraordinary profitability relied on a production system that literally worked the slaves to death, creating an insatiable appetite for new captives that made the African slave trade a central feature of modern capitalism for over four centuries. After surveying past centuries roiled by imperial wars, national revolutions, and the struggle for human rights, the closing chapters use those hard-won insights to peer through the present and into the future. By rendering often-opaque environmental science in lucid prose, the book explains how climate change and changing world orders will shape the life opportunities for younger generations, born at the start of this century, during the coming decades that will serve as the signposts of their lives -- 2030, 2050, 2070, and beyond." -- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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He started with the changes in Europe after the Black Death and the invasions of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. These events forced changes on Europeans and forced them to go out in search of income. Thus started the age of global trade, empire, colonialism, and genocide.
We are in a state of flux. America is plateauing, if not declining; China is rising, and climate change is creating its own challenges.
Alfred McCoy's analyses of the past empires, America, China, and the forces shaking the world now, are impeccable.
On top, the book is readable. (