Dynamics of Global Dominance European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980

Name: Dynamics of Global Dominance European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980
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ISBN: 9780300093148

ISBN-10: 0300093144

ISBN-13: 9780300093148

Edition: 2002

Authors: David B. Abernethy

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For centuries Europeans ruled vast portions of the world. How and why did these far-flung empires form, persist, and finally fall? David Abernethy addresses these questions in this survey of the European overseas empires.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 7/11/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Western Europe and the World



Ceuta, Bojador, and Beyond: Europeans on the Move



Why Did the Overseas Empires Rise, Persist, and Fall?



Phases of Imperial Expansion and Contraction



Phase 1: Expansion, 1415-1773



Phase 2: Contraction, 1775-1824



Phase 3: Expansion, 1824-1912



Phase 4: Unstable Equilibrium, 1914-39



Phase 5: Contraction, 1940-80



Accounting for Imperial Expansion



Western Europe as a Region: Shared Features



Western Europe as a System of Competing States



The Institutional Basis for the Triple Assault



Non-European Initiatives and Perceptions



Consolidating Power



Sectoral Institutions and Techniques of Control



Sources of Colonial Weakness



Accounting for Imperial Contraction



Colonialism as a Self-Defeating Enterprise



The International Dimension: War as the Catalyst for Independence



Consequences of European Overseas Rule



Legacies



The Moral Evaluation of Colonialism



Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of the Overseas Empires


Notes


Bibliography


Index