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Western empires - Christianity And The Inequalities Between The West And The Rest (Hardcover)
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Western empires - Christianity And The Inequalities Between The West And The Rest (Hardcover)
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The acute problem of inequality in the world was brought centre
stage by the sensational appearance of French economist Thomas
Piketty's bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-first Century. In
Western Empires, Christianity, and the Inequalities between the
West and the Rest 1500-2010, Sampie Terreblanche studies the matter
from a political economic perspective, and brings five centuries of
global history to bear in his focus on global inequalities, as
opposed to inequalities within countries. The unprecedented
accumulation of wealth in the Western world has come at a dire cost
to the Restern world (a term the author coins), and empire-building
is at the root of it. The last 500 years have seen successive
epochs of empire followed by war and systemic chaos. During this
time, the "haves" of world history have systematically channeled
global resources towards the West through cunning and conquest - a
process in which Christian missionary societies played a key role
as the soft avant-garde, followed by the hardware. The book deals
with several concepts of empire, and the forces through which
empires have been rolled out through history: arms, money,
ideology, religion. What fed into the Eurocentrism and notion of
superiority which paved the way for a lamentable history of
slavery, exploitation and the unremitting accumulation of wealth
and power? The book shows how clearly dangerous a world we live in,
with the scales as precipitously tipped as they are. Ten years in
the writing, and in many ways the apex of this decorated author's
life work, Western Empires is a book for everyone who wishes to
understand, or address, the extreme concentration of wealth in the
hands of the global few and the hopeless poverty of the many.
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