Islamic & European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order

Critical Perspectives on the Past

by Michael B. Adas (Editor)

A collection of ten essays covering topics ranging from the expansion of Islamic civilization to gender issues in the Industrial Revolution and European global expansion. Each essay provides an overview of the problems and themes relating to critical processes and periods in global history.

Genres: Islam, History

379 pages, Paperback

First published July 20, 1993

About the author

Michael Adas is an American historian and currently the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University. He specializes in the history of technology, the history of anticolonialism and in global history.

Reviews

[Ibn Shamal · Rating 2 out of 5]

While this book is a decent quick read its focus on European expansion and how historians have portrayed this expansion is a bit out dated. The chapters have commonality in that they ask historians to include a more diverse and global perspective when writing history. This is to be expected of today's scholars and the message has been received. While it is good at giving an overview of a wide range of topics, gender, disease, gunpowder, and Columbus, it is to parceled and lacking continuity.