Trevor Getz is an Assoc. Professor of African history at San Francisco State University and author of Slavery and Reform in West Africa. He has co-authored several textbooks including Exchanges: A Global History and the forthcoming African Histories. Trained as an Africanist, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He is currently working on both a graphic novel and a monograph of the life of Abina Mansah, a young enslaved woman who liberated herself in 19th century Ghana .
Heather Streets-Salter is an associate professor of history at Washington State University, where she teaches world and imperial history at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is director of the WSU History Department's world history Ph.D. program, and she directs the undergraduate program in World Civilizations. She is the author of Martial Races: The Military, Race, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 (2004), and is co-author, with Jerry Bentley and Herb Ziegler, of Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History (2007 and 2010). She is currently working on a monograph entitled Webs of Empire, which explores the connections between both colonial administrators and nationalists in French Indochina, British Malaya, and the Dutch East Indies from 1890 to 1937.
Maps | p. vii |
Preface | p. viii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Why Define? | p. 1 |
Empire | p. 1 |
Imperialism | p. 6 |
Colonialism | p. 9 |
Global and Modern | p. 12 |
Questions | p. 15 |
The Rise of Early Modern Empires, c. 1350-1650 | p. 16 |
Empire: The Emergence of Early Modern States and Empires in Eurasia and Africa | p. 16 |
The Emergence of the Early Modern State System | p. 17 |
A Gunpowder Revolution? | p. 24 |
Sectoral Alliances | p. 28 |
The Search for Legitimacy | p. 31 |
Sub-Saharan African Empires? | p. 33 |
Conclusion | p. 37 |
Questions | p. 37 |
Imperialism and Colonialism: Imperial Interaction and Nascent Colonialism in Early Modern Eurasia and North Africa | p. 38 |
Models of Early Modern Colonialism | p. 39 |
Themes in Early Modern Colonialism | p. 47 |
The Economic Underpinnings of Early Modern Integration | p. 48 |
Imperial Interaction and Grand Alliances | p. 49 |
The Portuguese Estado da India | p. 52 |
Conclusion | p. 56 |
Questions | p. 56 |
Imperialism: Intersecting Empires in the Americas | p. 57 |
Iberian Motivations for Exploration, Trade, and Conquest | p. 59 |
The First Iberian Colonies in the Americas | p. 61 |
American Imperialism | p. 63 |
The Columbian Exchange | p. 66 |
Iberian Empires in the New World | p. 69 |
Questions | p. 76 |
Atlantic and Asian Empires in a Global Age, c. 1600-1830 | p. 77 |
Colonialism: Competition for Empire and the Rise of the Slave/Plantation Complex | p. 77 |
Competition for Empire | p. 79 |
New Europeans in the Americas-English, French, and Dutch Colonial Efforts | p. 81 |
The Sugar Revolution | p. 86 |
Sugar, Slavery, and Transatlantic Societies | p. 90 |
Questions | p. 98 |
Empire: Empire, Identity, and the Making of New Societies in the Atlantic World | p. 99 |
The Role of Identity in History | p. 100 |
New Societies, New Peoples in the Americas | p. 102 |
New Societies, New Peoples in Africa and Asia | p. 108 |
The Process of Identity Formation | p. 110 |
Questions | p. 117 |
Imperialism and Colonialism: Asian Land Empires in a Global Age | p. 118 |
Continuity and Change from the Mid-Seventeenth Century | p. 121 |
Opportunities and Challenges | p. 124 |
Imperial Strategies and Colonial Modes of Rule | p. 129 |
Questioning Imperial Decline | p. 132 |
Questions | p. 136 |
Informal Empires? c. 1810-1880 | p. 137 |
Empire: Revolutions in the Atlantic World | p. 137 |
The Seven Years' War and Its Consequences | p. 139 |
The War of American Independence and Its Legacies | p. 146 |
The French Revolutionary Wars and the French Caribbean | p. 149 |
The Napoleonic Wars and the Spanish and Portuguese Americas | p. 154 |
Atlantic Rebellions and Global Wars in Southern Africa | p. 158 |
Conclusion | p. 159 |
Questions | p. 160 |
Imperialism: The industrial Revolution and the Era of Informal Imperialism | p. 161 |
Informal Empire-Anti-Imperialist or Imperialist? | p. 164 |
Industry and Empire | p. 165 |
Cultures of Informal Imperialism | p. 168 |
Informal Imperialism in Action | p. 170 |
Formal Expansion in the Era of Informal Imperialism | p. 179 |
Conclusion | p. 186 |
Questions | p. 187 |
Colonialism: Change, Response, and Resistance in the Colonies | p. 188 |
Modes of Governance | p. 190 |
Common Themes in Nineteenth-Century Colonialism | p. 192 |
Resistance to the Imposition and Effects of Colonial Rule | p. 206 |
Conclusion | p. 209 |
Questions | p. 210 |
The New Imperialism, c. 1870-1930 | p. 211 |
Imperialism: The New Imperialism and the Scramble for Colonies | p. 211 |
What Was the New Imperialism? | p. 213 |
Why Did the New Imperialism Happen? | p. 217 |
The Annexation of Burma, 1885 | p. 222 |
The Struggle for the Upper Nile Valley: The Race for Fashoda from British, French, and African Perspectives, 1896-1899 | p. 224 |
Japanese Policy Formation and the Invasion of Korea, 1874-1910 | p. 226 |
Public Opinion in the United States and the Invasion of Haiti, 1915 | p. 228 |
Conclusion | p. 229 |
Questions | p. 229 |
Colonialism: Colonial Subjects and the Pacification of Colonies in the Era of the New Imperialism | p. 230 |
The Pacification of Vietnam and the Gold Coast | p. 231 |
Imposing Colonial Authority and Sovereignty | p. 233 |
Problematizing Collaboration | p. 236 |
Problematizing Resistance | p. 240 |
Re-evaluating the Pacification of the Gold Coast and Indochina | p. 242 |
Conclusion | p. 246 |
Questions | p. 247 |
Empire: The Sinews of the New Imperialism | p. 248 |
Commodities | p. 249 |
Migration | p. 253 |
Missionism | p. 256 |
War and Military Power | p. 259 |
Gender, Sexuality, and Race | p. 264 |
Conclusion | p. 268 |
Questions | p. 269 |
The Rise and Fall of High Imperialism, c. 1890-1975 | p. 270 |
Imperialism and Colonialism: Imperial Projects and Colonial Petitions in the High Imperial Era | p. 270 |
The Colonizers' Model of the World | p. 271 |
Hierarchy and Colonial Projects in the Era of High imperialism | p. 274 |
The Proconsular State and the Realities of Colonial Rule | p. 278 |
Strategies of Colonial Subjects: Negotiation, Accommodation, and Petition | p. 279 |
Conclusion | p. 283 |
Questions | p. 284 |
Empire: Imperial World Wars and the Slow March toward Decolonization | p. 285 |
Imperial Ambitions and the First World War | p. 287 |
The Colonial Experience and the First World War | p. 291 |
The Armenian Genocide as a Colonial Event | p. 295 |
Imperial Ambitions and the Second World War | p. 296 |
The Colonial Experience and the Second World War | p. 297 |
The Holocaust as a Colonial Event | p. 299 |
The Aftermath of the Second World War and Political Decolonization | p. 300 |
Conclusion | p. 304 |
Questions | p. 305 |
Imperialism and Colonialism: Nationalism and Independence | p. 306 |
The Challenge Facing Anti-Colonial Movements and the Search for Unifying Ideologies | p. 307 |
The Development of Emancipatory Nationalism | p. 309 |
Organizing Resistance Among the People | p. 312 |
The Diffusion of Emancipatory Nationalism: A Global Perspective | p. 313 |
Pan-Movements | p. 315 |
Settlers and Settler Nationalism | p. 318 |
The Messy Reality of the Road to Independence | p. 320 |
Conclusion | p. 322 |
Questions | p. 323 |
The World We Live in, c. 1948 to Today | p. 324 |
Imperialism and Colonialism: A Post-Colonial World? | p. 324 |
Cold War Imperialism? | p. 325 |
Economic Neo-Imperialism? | p. 334 |
Cultural Imperialism and Postcolonialism | p. 338 |
The Persistence of Empire? | p. 341 |
Glossary | p. 343 |
Index | p. 347 |
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