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Seller notes: Size: 9x4x11; 2007 Macmillan Reference USA (Detroit, Michigan), three 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches tall glossy color pictorial hardcover volumes, no dust jackets (as issued), color map endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps, xl, 1315 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to the covers of all three volumes, with a bit of bumping to some tips. Volume 1 is a former library copy, with lined-out stamps to the top page edges, a stamp to the blank rear free-endpaper, accession marker to the rear pastedown, and a 5" abrasion to the rear free-endpaper where a label was removed as the only evidence of this. Otherwise, a very good set-clean, bright and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~YY~ [11.5P] The period from the Renaissance onward has seen several nations and their citizens explore areas beyond their own borders in attempts to discover and colonize new territory, thereby expanding their sphere of influence for economic reasons or, for some, to escape persecution in their own land. Whatever the reason, colonialism still has its effects on the modern world, whether it led to the birth of a new nation (as in the case of the U.S. ) or helps to explain simmering tensions that remain in Africa and India. Editor Benjamin is a professor of Latin American history at Central Michigan University; according to his preface, this set 'provides the most comprehensive, accessible, and international reference work about the entirety of Western Colonialism from the Portuguese voyages of Prince Henry the Navigator in the fifteenth century to the making of feature films about British colonialism in India in the twenty-first century. ' The encyclopedia contains 411 articles by 234 academically affiliated contributors and is liberally illustrated with more than 300 illustrations, maps, and charts. A thematic outline is included in the first volume; the set concludes with selected text from 29 primary sources (for example, Monroe Doctrine, Treaty of Utrecht) and a comprehensive index.