Pursuit Of Power

I read the book “The pursuit of Power” by Evans, Richard J. And this book's main argument is showing how europeans shared similar experiences and reveals the complex and interconnected range of historical forces at work between 1815 and 1914. One strength of this book is how good it gives the sides of each individual like merchants,investors, and officials. Another strength of this book is it uses the specific dates, goes very in depth allowing the reader to be able to explorer the European life. One weakness is that it doesn’t really give out the main argument of the book because it just gives too many details so you really just have to read and understand it.
One strength about the book i read was that the book gives different point of view

Women were fighting for their imprisonment in a nexus of law, customs and conventions that subordinated them to the power of men. Just as feminist fought for equality before the law, so too in the new world of industry, labour unions went on strike for more power over wages conditions of work. In the Nineteenth century society increased its power over nature: governments gained the power to turn away or alleviate hunger and natural disasters such as fires and floods; medical researchers reached out in their laboratories power over disease; engineers and planners channeled rivers, and drained marshes. But as the the nineteenth century progressed, people increasingly prioritized power over glory, honour and comparable values that had been dominant through most centuries before. How and why all this came to be, and how power relations within europe affected and were affected by the rapidly changing power relations between Europe, Asia, Africa, and other parts of the globe, are the themes that stand