Empires and colonies in the modern world : a global perspective /
"Empires and Colonies in the Modern World takes on world history 1450-present through the sweeping events and human experiences of empires, imperialism, and colonialism. More than just a history of one or more empires, this volume ties together all of the modern empires, and also considers the...
| Основни автори: | Streets-Salter, Heather, (Author), Getz, Trevor R., (Author) |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Съдържание:
- Timeline
- Introduction: Why define?; Empire; Imperialism; Colonialism; Global and modern; Looking ahead
- Part one. The rise of early modern empires, c.1350-1650
- The forging of early modern empires
- Emerging imperialism and colonialism in early modern empires
- Intersecting empires in the Americas
- Part two. Atlantic and Asian empires in a global age, c. 1600-1830
- The rise of the slave/plantation complex
- Colonial societies in the Atlantic world
- Asian land empires in a global age
- Part three. Informal empires, c.1810-1880
- The Industrial Revolution and the era of informal imperialism
- Living the colonial experience
- Part four. The new imperialism, c. 1870-1930
- Dividing the world
- Strategies of the colonized
- The sinews of the new imperialism
- Part five. The rise and fall of high imperialism, c. 1890-1975
- Imperial projects and colonial petitions
- Imperial world wars
- Unraveling colonialism
- Part six. The world we live in, 1948 to today
- Cold War empires
- Imperialism now
- Glossary.