The Colonizer's Model of the World Steven Adelsheim playwright and librettist

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The Colonizer's Model of the World Steven Adelsheim playwright and librettistThis 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.