The Stuff: The author says in the first lines of his preface that this is his third book, “in my lifelong search for explanations for the amazing success of European imperialism.” Cyrus the Great, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Huayna Capac were all “great conquerors,” but they were “homebodies” compared to Queen Victoria. HisContinue reading “Review of “The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society 1250-1600” by Alfred W. Crosby”
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