A short history of colonialism /
This well-written and comprehensive book by an outstanding expert provides students of history and the general reader with reliable, up-to-date information on an essential part of the history of mankind. It deals with the discoveries; with Portuguese, Dutch, and English trade systems in Asia; with t...
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Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
Manchester University Press ;
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Colonies and colonialism
- The European Atlantic
- Europeans and Asians
- The Iberian Atlantic
- Plantation America and the African Atlantic
- New Europes on the North Atlantic and the first decolonisation
- New Europes in the southern hemisphere and the second decolonisation
- Continental imperialism
- Overseas imperialism in Asia
- Imperialism in Africa
- Late imperialism and the great decolonisation
- A balance-sheet of colonialism.