Challenges from Without

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Challenges from Without
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844636.book-part-038

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Abstract

In taking stock of world power relationships between the early sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the most impressive change to note is the radical shift in western Europe’s position from relative weakness in the world to unchallenged dominance of the world. While the age of New Imperialism (1870–1914) would complete Europe’s domination of the globe, the processes of early Western colonialism and the takeover of the world’s maritime trade had been steadily under way since roughly 1500.

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