The slides from the third lecture of my first post-big book excursion through the economic history of the 20th century; a very quick & inadequate runup to how human society arrived at the 1870 hin...
Am I right that in the Far East, Japan was the exception in fending off (containing) the Portuguese empire? How did that play into Japan being the exception in transition ping to an industrial economy in the late 19th century? It seems like fending off the west would be just as likely to make a nation insular, retarding development, as it would be to promoting development. Is the issue that if a people or nation didn’t actively resist Western colonialism, the West would actively suppress industrialization? (I have your book but wouldn’t mind a spoiler here.)
Yes, Bill Gates father never dared a king to toss young Bill over the castle walls by catapult. [That he did not is the only good thing about Steven the Usurper I know.] :)
Am I right that in the Far East, Japan was the exception in fending off (containing) the Portuguese empire? How did that play into Japan being the exception in transition ping to an industrial economy in the late 19th century? It seems like fending off the west would be just as likely to make a nation insular, retarding development, as it would be to promoting development. Is the issue that if a people or nation didn’t actively resist Western colonialism, the West would actively suppress industrialization? (I have your book but wouldn’t mind a spoiler here.)
Yes, Bill Gates father never dared a king to toss young Bill over the castle walls by catapult. [That he did not is the only good thing about Steven the Usurper I know.] :)
Looks great!