Eight: Eurocentric Historians. By J. M. Blaut. New York: Guilford Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 227. $22.00, paper.
地理学家J. M. Blaut提出，欧洲近四百年的全球主导地位源于1492年偶然发现美洲财富，并以此征服世界、催生资本主义和现代文明。
The late J. M. Blaut, a geographer who passed away in November 2000, had a pet theory. Europe's political and economic domination of the rest of the world in the past four centuries or so was due to a single event: the almost happenstance discovery of America's treasures in 1492 by Europeans, who then used these resources to subjugate the rest of the world and to create a capitalist system that produced the Enlightenment, modern science, the Industrial Revolution, and all the rest.