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Philip Hoffman: Why Did Europe Conquer the World? 12/6/2006 [56k modem] [broadband] [cable/DSL] 57 minutes On December 6, Philip Hoffman, Caltech's Rosenberg Professor of History and Social Science, presented a Watson Lecture in which he discussed the economic history of the world. He explained how Europe's politics and economics created a comparative advantage in violence, allowing European states to conquer 84 percent of the globe between 1500 and 1914.

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