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| Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why Define? | |
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| Empire | |
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| Imperialism | |
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| Colonialism | |
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| Global and Modern | |
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| The Rise of Early Modern Empires, c. 1350-1650 | |
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| Empire: The Emergence of Early Modern States and Empires in Eurasia and Africa | |
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| The Emergence of the Early Modern State System | |
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| A Gunpowder Revolution? | |
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| Sectoral Alliances | |
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| The Search for Legitimacy | |
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| Sub-Saharan African Empires? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions | |
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| Imperialism and Colonialism: Imperial Interaction and Nascent Colonialism in Early Modern Eurasia and North Africa | |
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| Models of Early Modern Colonialism | |
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| Themes in Early Modern Colonialism | |
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| The Economic Underpinnings of Early Modern Integration | |
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| Imperial Interaction and Grand Alliances | |
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| The Portuguese Estado da India | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions | |
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| Imperialism: Intersecting Empires in the Americas | |
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| Iberian Motivations for Exploration, Trade, and Conquest | |
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| The First Iberian Colonies in the Americas | |
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| American Imperialism | |
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| The Columbian Exchange | |
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| Iberian Empires in the New World | |
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| Questions | |
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| Atlantic and Asian Empires in a Global Age, c. 1600-1830 | |
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| Colonialism: Competition for Empire and the Rise of the Slave/Plantation Complex | |
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| Competition for Empire | |
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| New Europeans in the Americas-English, French, and Dutch Colonial Efforts | |
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| The Sugar Revolution | |
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| Sugar, Slavery, and Transatlantic Societies | |
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| Empire: Empire, Identity, and the Making of New Societies in the Atlantic World | |
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| The Role of Identity in History | |
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| New Societies, New Peoples in the Americas | |
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| New Societies, New Peoples in Africa and Asia | |
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| The Process of Identity Formation | |
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| Imperialism and Colonialism: Asian Land Empires in a Global Age | |
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| Continuity and Change from the Mid-Seventeenth Century | |
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| Opportunities and Challenges | |
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| Imperial Strategies and Colonial Modes of Rule | |
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| Questioning Imperial Decline | |
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| Informal Empires? c. 1810-1880 | |
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| Empire: Revolutions in the Atlantic World | |
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| The Seven Years' War and Its Consequences | |
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| The War of American Independence and Its Legacies | |
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| The French Revolutionary Wars and the French Caribbean | |
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| The Napoleonic Wars and the Spanish and Portuguese Americas | |
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| Atlantic Rebellions and Global Wars in Southern Africa | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions | |
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| Imperialism: The industrial Revolution and the Era of Informal Imperialism | |
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| Informal Empire-Anti-Imperialist or Imperialist? | |
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| Industry and Empire | |
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| Cultures of Informal Imperialism | |
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| Informal Imperialism in Action | |
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| Formal Expansion in the Era of Informal Imperialism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions | |
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| Colonialism: Change, Response, and Resistance in the Colonies | |
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| Modes of Governance | |
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| Common Themes in Nineteenth-Century Colonialism | |
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| Resistance to the Imposition and Effects of Colonial Rule | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions | |
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| The New Imperialism, c. 1870-1930 | |
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| Imperialism: The New Imperialism and the Scramble for Colonies | |
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| What Was the New Imperialism? | |
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| Why Did the New Imperialism Happen? | |
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| The Annexation of Burma, 1885 | |
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| The Struggle for the Upper Nile Valley: The Race for Fashoda from British, French, and African Perspectives, 1896-1899 | |
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| Japanese Policy Formation and the Invasion of Korea, 1874-1910 | |
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| Public Opinion in the United States and the Invasion of Haiti, 1915 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions | |
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| Colonialism: Colonial Subjects and the Pacification of Colonies in the Era of the New Imperialism | |
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| The Pacification of Vietnam and the Gold Coast | |
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| Imposing Colonial Authority and Sovereignty | |
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| Problematizing Collaboration | |
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| Problematizing Resistance | |
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| Re-evaluating the Pacification of the Gold Coast and Indochina | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions | |
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| Empire: The Sinews of the New Imperialism | |
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| Commodities | |
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| Migration | |
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| Missionism | |
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| War and Military Power | |
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| Gender, Sexuality, and Race | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions | |
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| The Rise and Fall of High Imperialism, c. 1890-1975 | |
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| Imperialism and Colonialism: Imperial Projects and Colonial Petitions in the High Imperial Era | |
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| The Colonizers' Model of the World | |
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| Hierarchy and Colonial Projects in the Era of High imperialism | |
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| The Proconsular State and the Realities of Colonial Rule | |
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| Strategies of Colonial Subjects: Negotiation, Accommodation, and Petition | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Empire: Imperial World Wars and the Slow March toward Decolonization | |
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| Imperial Ambitions and the First World War | |
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| The Colonial Experience and the First World War | |
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| The Armenian Genocide as a Colonial Event | |
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| Imperial Ambitions and the Second World War | |
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| The Colonial Experience and the Second World War | |
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| The Holocaust as a Colonial Event | |
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| The Aftermath of the Second World War and Political Decolonization | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Imperialism and Colonialism: Nationalism and Independence | |
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| The Challenge Facing Anti-Colonial Movements and the Search for Unifying Ideologies | |
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| The Development of Emancipatory Nationalism | |
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| Organizing Resistance Among the People | |
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| The Diffusion of Emancipatory Nationalism: A Global Perspective | |
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| Pan-Movements | |
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| Settlers and Settler Nationalism | |
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| The Messy Reality of the Road to Independence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The World We Live in, c. 1948 to Today | |
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| Imperialism and Colonialism: A Post-Colonial World? | |
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| Cold War Imperialism? | |
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| Economic Neo-Imperialism? | |
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| Cultural Imperialism and Postcolonialism | |
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| The Persistence of Empire? | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |