The Conquest of Europe by the Pacific Empire:A Fairy Tale电子书

售价：¥

0人正在读 | 0人评论

9.8

作者：Jay Maclean

出版社：PublishDrive

出版时间：2018-01-03

字数：23.8万

所属分类：进口书 > 外文原版书 > 小说

温馨提示：数字商品不支持退换货，不提供源文件，不支持导出打印

为你推荐

读书简介
目录
累计评论(0条)

读书简介
目录
累计评论(0条)

Today, the Pacific islands reflect the best and worst in western society. On the one hand are the bravery and persistence of early European navigators, missionaries, and government officers; the early, well-meaning efforts by many westerners to help the islanders become ‘civilized’; the assistance readily given in times of natural disasters; and the grants and concessional loans to help Pacific countries develop into independent economic entities, to name but a few. On the other hand are the persistence in demolishing the islanders’ tropical culture and turning them into unwilling citizens or dependents of temperate countries, like puppets; the arrogance of assuming that modern western democracy and societal norms, which date back but a few generations, must replace the islanders’ far longer-standing societies; and the continuation of all these efforts to westernize them and their countries in the face of growing awareness in those Pacific countries of the value of their own well tried-and-tested lifestyles—to name but a few. What if history had gone another way? What if the Pacific islanders had taken over Europe instead? That would have been impossible, of course, or would it?

目录展开