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Cargando... To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change (edición 2022)por Alfred W. McCoy (Autor), Dan Woren (Narrador), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher)
Información de la obraTo Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change por Alfred W. McCoy
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"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." -- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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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. (