Download or read book The European Opportunity written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 15 articles follow on from those in The Global Opportunity in that they examine how and why the Europeans expanded worldwide. Part one explores the means in terms of science, technology and material resources; part two examines the motives, primarily as a result of restricted resources in Europe; while part three concludes with the reasons that the expansion continued and grew - the momentum.