The colonial world : a history of European empires, 1780s to the present / Robert Aldrich and Andreas Stucki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aldrich, Robert, 1954- author.

Stucki, Andreas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Europe--Colonies--History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 536 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Writing (and reading) of colonial history

pt. I Chronologies

2. Early modern European colonialism, 1490s

1815

3. The making of overseas empires in the long nineteenth century, 1815

1914

4. Colonial rule and misrule, 1914

40

5. The unmaking of overseas empires, 1940

75

pt. II Themes

6. Land and sea: Colonialism and the environment

7. Crossed destinies: The people of empire

8. Slavery, indentured migration and empire

9. Settler colonialism: The British Dominions

10. Colonialism and the body

11. Colonialism and the mind

12. Colonialism and the soul

13. Representations of colonialism

pt. III Cases

14. The Spanish Andes, 1780

15. Mauritius, 1810

16. Cuba, 1812

17. India, 1876

18. Burma and Vietnam, 1883

5

19. Global Conflict, 1900

20. The South Pacific, 1903

21. Ceylon, 1907

22. German Southwest Africa, 1908

23. Ethiopia, 1936

24. The Dutch East Indies, 1938

25. Palestine and the Middle East, 1946

26. Algeria, 1962

27. The Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1971

28. Western Sahara, 1975

29. Belgium and the Congo, 1897 and 2018

30. Epilogue: The legacies of empires.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350092419

135009241X

9781350092402

1350092401

OCLC:

1351696748

Publisher Number:

99993104616