Empires and colonies in the modern world : a global perspective

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Empires and colonies in the modern world : a global perspective

Heather Streets-Salter and Trevor Getz

Oxford University Press, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-549) and index

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In Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective, Heather Streets-Salter and Trevor R. Getz provide a thorough overview of modern empires and colonialism from the late fifteenth century to the present. Synthesizing the vast outpouring of new scholarship that examines empires in a global context, the book pays as much attention to the Ottoman, Mughal, Ming, and Qing Empires as to European colonialism, and stresses the continuous social, political, and cultural interactions between colonizers and colonized. Amply illustrated with photographs and full-color maps, Empires and Colonies in the Modern World examines numerous issues--including commodity flows, pan-movements, and anti-colonial activism--that superseded the boundaries of colonies and empires entirely. It calls attention not only to the complexities of the internal dynamics of individual empires, but also to the constant interactions between empires, and between colonies with different national metropoles.

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List of Maps Acknowledgments About the Authors Timeline Color Map Introduction Why Define? Empire Imperialism Colonialism Global and Modern Looking Ahead Part One: The Rise of Early Modern Empires, ca. 1350-1650 Chapter 1. The Forging of Early Modern Empires The Emergence of the Early Modern State System A Gunpowder Revolution? Sectoral Alliances The Search for Legitimacy Sub-Saharan African Empires? Conclusion Chapter 2. Emerging Imperialism and Colonialism in Early Modern Empires Models of Early Modern Colonialism Themes in Early Modern Colonialism The Economic Underpinnings of Early Modern Integration Imperial Interaction and Grand Alliances The Portuguese Estado da India Conclusion Chapter 3. Intersecting Empires in the Americas Iberian Motivations for Exploration, Trade, and Conquest The First Iberian Colonies in the Americas American Imperialism The Columbian Exchange Iberian Empires in the New World Conclusion Part Two: Atlantic and Asian Empires in a Global Age, ca. 1600-1830 Chapter 4. The Rise of the Slave/Plantation Complex Competition for Empire New Europeans in The Americas-English, French, and Dutch Colonial Efforts The Sugar Revolution Sugar, Slavery, and Transatlantic Societies Conclusion Chapter 5. Colonial Societies in the Atlantic World The Role of Identity in History New Societies, New Peoples in the Americas New Societies, New Peoples in Africa and Asia The Process of Identity Formation Conclusion Chapter 6. Asian Land Empires in a Global Age Continuity and Change from the Mid-Seventeenth Century Opportunities and Challenges Imperial Strategies and Colonial Modes of Rule Questioning Imperial Decline Conclusion Part Three: Informal Empires, ca. 1810-1880 Chapter 7. Revolutions in the Atlantic World The Seven Years' War and Its Consequences The War of American Independence and Its Legacies The French Revolutionary Wars and the French Caribbean The Napoleonic Wars and the Spanish and Portuguese Americas Atlantic Rebellions and Global Wars in Southern Africa Conclusion Chapter 8. The Industrial Revolution and the Era of Informal Imperialism Informal Empire-Anti-Imperialist or Imperialist? Industry and Empire Cultures of Informal Imperialism Informal Imperialism in Action Formal Expansion in the Era of Informal Imperialism Conclusion Chapter 9. Living the Colonial Experience Modes of Governance Common Themes in Nineteenth-Century Colonialism Resisting the Imposition and Effects of Colonial Rule Conclusion Part Four: The New Imperialism, ca. 1870-1930 Chapter 10. Dividing the World What Was the New Imperialism? Why Did the New Imperialism Happen? The Annexation of Burma, 1885 The Struggle for The Upper Nile Valley: The Race for Fashoda from British, French, and African Perspectives, 1896-1899 Japanese Policy Formation and the Invasion of Korea, 1874-1910 Public Opinion in the United States and the Invasion of Haiti, 1915 Conclusion Chapter 11. Strategies of the Colonized The Pacification of Vietnam and the Gold Coast Imposing Colonial Authority and Sovereignty Problematizing Collaboration Problematizing Resistance Re-Evaluating the Pacification of the Gold Coast and Indochina Conclusion Chapter 12. The Sinews of the New Imperialism Commodities Migration Missionism War and Military Power Gender, Sexuality, and Race Conclusion Part Five: The Rise and Fall of High Imperialism, ca. 1890-1975 Chapter 13. Imperial Projects and Colonial Petitions The Colonizers' Model of the World Hierarchy and Colonial Projects in the Era of High Imperialism The Proconsular State and the Realities of Colonial Rule Strategies of Colonial Subjects: Negotiation, Accommodation, and Petition Conclusion Chapter 14. Imperial World Wars Imperial Ambitions and the First World War The Colonial Experience and the First World War The Armenian Genocide as a Colonial Event Imperial Ambitions and the Second World War The Colonial Experience and the Second World War The Holocaust as a Colonial Event The Aftermath of the Second World War and Political Decolonization Conclusion Chapter 15. Unraveling Colonialism The Challenge Facing Anti-Colonial Movements and the Search for Unifying Ideologies the Development of Emancipatory Nationalism Organizing Resistance among the People The Diffusion of Emancipatory Nationalism: A Global Perspective Pan Movements Settlers and Settler Nationalism The Messy Reality of the Road to Independence Conclusion Part Six: The World We Live in, 1948 to Today Chapter 16. Cold War Empires A Cold War Imperial System? Soviet and American Cultures of Imperialism Cold War Colonialism Conclusion Chapter 17. Imperialism Now Cultural Colonialism? Economic Domination? A Modern Chinese Empire? Twenty-First-Century Soviet And American Empires? Conclusion Glossary Credits Bibliography Index

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