03122nam a2200313 4500 20241105073037.0 eng 9780143539070 RDA eng RDA 325.32 Terreblanche, Sampie, author. 190414 Western empires, Christianity, and the inequalities between the West and the Rest, 1500-2010 / Sampie Terreblanche. Johannesburg : Penguin Books, 2014. xiv, 583 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-562)and indexes. Part I. Western Maritime empires divide the world into a rich Western world and a poor Restern world -- Reasons for the rise of the Western world in the centuries after 1500 -- Power configurations and the periodisation of Western empires (1500-2010) -- Profiling Western marine empires and understanding their unique characteristics -- Western empires and the dynamics of social and imperial power over the past 500 years -- Western industrialisation and the Great Divergence between the West and the Rest (1820-1950) -- Part II. The first pattern of Western Empires: empires of plunderers, slave traders and settlement colonialists 1530- 1830 -- The first period of deep systemic chaos: the Church in retreat, the yoke of feudalism breaks, two Europes -- The systemic period of the Iberian and the Catholic empires 1530- 1630 -- The systemic period of the Dutch Empire 1648- 1713 -- The systemic period of the first British Empire 1713- 1883. Part 111. The second pattern of Western empires: empires of exploitation and labour repression -- The second period of deep systemic chaos: revolutionary upheavals against the ancién regime (1775-1820) -- The systemic period of the second British Empire (1846-1914/31) -- The origins of the third world during the second pattern of Western empires (1820-1945) -- Part 1V. The third pattern of Western empires: the pernicious draining of the Restern world by multiple American-led empires after the Second World War -- The third period of deep systemic chaos during the Thirty-One Years War (1914-1945) -- Anti-systemic revolts against Western empires and decolonisation in the twentieth century -- The multiple American post-colonial empires that inconspicuously disrupted, exploited and drained the Rest of the world after the Second World War -- Part V. Capitalism and growing domestic inequalities during the past 500 years -- Successive politico-economic systems and the almost uninterrupted dominanc of 'capitalisms' over 'democracies' since 1500. Capitalism History. 190415 Civilization, Western. 190416 International finance History. 190417 Financial institutions, International History. 190418 Equality History. 190419 Imperialism Religious aspects. 190420 Church history. 190421 ddc BOOK 325.32 TERR 496 Chrisna Calitz 496 Chrisna Calitz 769894 769893 0 0 ddc 0 0 ERMELL ERMELL Non_Fiction 2024-11-05 355.94 0 325.32 TERR 3322830154598 2024-11-05 2024-11-05 BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 300 THULL THULL GEN 2025-09-17 355.94 0 325.32 3300610005128 2025-09-17 2025-09-17 BOOK