In this book, Peter F.
Krogh examines the major events and individuals which figured prominently in the movement of centers of initiative and of the world's main axis of commerce and communication from East to West over the last five hundred years.
The book follows the westward migration of the world's center of gravity from China in the fifteenth century across Eurasia to the Near East, onward to Europe and then to America and, now, to the Pacific Rim.
The focus is on his.
Hamilton Books The world's westward march: explorers, warriors, and statesmen, paperback/peter f. krogh
