Contents, Synopsis and Preface
#1 Summary of Contents
I wrote a long book titled: Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction Over 500 years, from 1500 to the Present Day to make sense of the many issues that flood our everyday consciousness. This is a book that would show the connectedness of our present-day world and offer historical context to the crises of racism, war and global conflict.
Preface
History is the essence of being human; humanity and our origins are expressed in all religions, written and unwritten. It is an elemental part of ourselves that we need to know where we have come from, how we are part of our complex world. Humanity down the ages has been expressed in religious history; Adam and Eve are common stories in the Abrahamic tradition.
Synopsis
Wealth and Power is a global history unlike any other, covering the period from 1492 to the present. It is a grand narrative with a focus on the growth and development in Europe at the expense of the rest of the world. In the process during this period Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain struggled for supremacy against each other both in Europe and in the rest of the world.
If you want to understand how the 'West' dominated most of the world for centuries, then follow Roger van Zwannenberg 's blog. He explains, in clear jargon-free language, the various strategies employed to exploit and impoverish countries of the 'South'.
— Professor David Dabydeen