The Dynamics of Global Dominance / Roscoe Pound.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pound, Roscoe, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in geography.

Europe--Territorial expansion.

Europe.

Europe--Colonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For centuries Europeans ruled vast portions of the world, as inhabitants of west European countries sailed to distant continents and took possession of territories whose societies and economies they set out to change. How and why did these farflung empires form, persist, and finally fall? David Abernethy addresses these questions in this magisterial survey of the rise and decline of European overseas empires.Abernethy identifies broad patterns across time and space, interweaving them with fascinating details of cross-cultural encounters. He argues that relatively autonomous profit-making, religious, and governmental institutions enabled west European countries to launch triple assaults on other societies. Indigenous people also played a role in their eventual subjugation by inviting Europeans to intervene in their power struggles. Abernethy finds that imperial decline was often the unanticipated result of wars among major powers. Postwar crises over colonies' unmet expectations empowered movements that eventually took territories as diverse as the thirteen British North American colonies, Spain's South American possessions, India, the Dutch East Indies, Vietnam, and the Gold Coast to independence.In advancing a theory of imperialism that includes European and non-European actors, and in analyzing economic, social, and cultural as well as political dimensions of empire, Abernethy helps account for Europe's long occupation of global center stage. He also sheds light on key features of today's postcolonial world and the legacies of empire, concluding with an insightful approach to the moral evaluation of colonialism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Part I. WESTERN EUROPE AND THE WORLD

Part II. PHASES OF IMPERIAL EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION

Part III .ACCOUNTING FOR IMPERIAL EXPANSION

Part IV. CONSOLIDATING POWER

Part V .ACCOUNTING FOR IMPERIAL CONTRACTION

Part VI. CONSEQUENCES OF EUROPEAN OVERSEAS RULE

APPENDIX SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS OF THE OVERSEAS EMPIRES

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300143881

0300143885

OCLC:

1024040135