Excellent, accessible textbook for courses in general and comparative colonial history. Includes not only overseas empires but also continental colonial expansion (USA, Latin America, South Africa, Australia and Russia). Most recent comprehensive book in the field.
Excellent, accessible textbook for courses in general and comparative colonial history. Includes not only overseas empires but also continental colonial expansion (USA, Latin America, South Africa, Australia and Russia). Most recent comprehensive book in the field. -- .
1. Colonies and colonialism2. The European Atlantic3. Europeans and Asians4. The Iberian Atlantic5. Plantation America and the African Atlantic6. New Europes on the North Atlantic and the first decolonisation7. New Europes in the southern hemisphere and the second decolonisation8. Continental imperialism9. Overseas imperialism in Asia10. Imperialism in Africa11. Late imperialism and the great decolonisation12. A balance-sheet of colonialismBibliographyIndex