Abernethy's Analysis On The Religious Undermining Of European Colonial Empires

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A Critical Review of Abernethy’s Analysis on the Religious Undermining of the European Colonial Empires Rough Draft In David B. Abernethy’s The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Oversees Empires 1415-1980, Abernethy discusses the “Triple Assault” of public, private and religious sectors as they shaped and influenced European colonial society. Abernethy further discusses, in depth, the development, governing and undermining aspects of the religious sector in the colonial societies of the world. Abernethy’s analysis on the religious undermining of European colonization was well explicated wherein he broke down European religious ideology in relation of how colonialized peoples harnessed these ideologies and freed themselves from the demeaning structures of European subjectivism. While taking on a “Eurocentric” approach, Abernethy delves extensively into the complex layers of European imperialism where he ultimately explains piece by piece of the development, establishment and the destruction of colonial systems. Specifically, the relationship between colonizers and the colonialized peoples of those eras. Abernethy not only explained why colonial empires erected the way they did (as other authors would only discuss), but also …show more content…

Providing the reader with charts and maps, Abernethy gave a full visual understanding of the complex nature of colonialism and its’ revolving actors. Each paragraph delivered an immense amount of information that carried weight in it of itself. Backed by a ton of sources, Abernethy did not hesitate to gives his readers the complete embodiment of colonial conquests and not just solely through a “Eurocentric” lens. As a reader, I commend him for adding non-European perspectives to his analysis as well and how non-European conquests succeeded in some areas and failed in others in

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