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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction Imperialism and Technology | p. 1 |
On Imperialism | p. 1 |
On Technology | p. 3 |
The Goal and Organization of This Book | p. 6 |
Notes | p. 9 |
The Discovery of the Oceans, to 1779 | p. 11 |
Five Seafaring Traditions | p. 11 |
The Portuguese and the Ocean | p. 20 |
Navigation | p. 27 |
The Spanish Voyages | p. 32 |
Completing the Map of the Oceans | p. 41 |
Conclusion | p. 50 |
Notes | p. 51 |
Eastern Ocean Empires, 1497-1700 | p. 59 |
The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean | p. 59 |
The Ottoman Challenge | p. 68 |
The Limits of Portuguese Power | p. 74 |
The Dutch and the English in the Indian Ocean | p. 79 |
China, Japan, and the Europeans | p. 84 |
Conclusion | p. 87 |
Notes | p. 89 |
Horses, Diseases, and the Conquest of the Americas, 1492-1849 | p. 95 |
The First Encounter: The Caribbean | p. 96 |
The Conquest of Mexico | p. 101 |
Peru and Chile | p. 112 |
Argentina and North America | p. 118 |
Disease and Demography | p. 123 |
Conclusion | p. 131 |
Notes | p. 132 |
The Limits of the Old Imperialism: Africa and Asia to 1859 | p. 139 |
Sub-Saharan Africa to 1830 | p. 139 |
India to 1746 | p. 147 |
The Military Revolution | p. 151 |
Plassey and After | p. 154 |
Reaching the Limit: Afghanistan and the Punjab | p. 158 |
Reaching the Limit: Algeria, 1830-1850 | p. 163 |
Russia and the Caucasus | p. 167 |
Conclusion | p. 169 |
Notes | p. 170 |
Steamboat Imperialism, 1807-1898 | p. 177 |
Steamboats in North America | p. 179 |
Steamers in South Asia | p. 186 |
Routes to India | p. 188 |
The Euphrates Route | p. 191 |
The Red Sea Route | p. 194 |
Britain and China | p. 197 |
The Nemesis | p. 200 |
Steamboats on the Niger | p. 206 |
Steamboats and the Scramble for Africa | p. 212 |
Conclusion | p. 216 |
Notes | p. 217 |
Health, Medicine, and the New Imperialism, 1830-1914 | p. 226 |
Medicine and Africa in the Early Nineteenth Century | p. 226 |
The Discovery of Quinine Prophylaxis | p. 229 |
Public Health at Mid-Century | p. 234 |
From Empirical to Scientific Medicine | p. 237 |
Science and Tropical Diseases | p. 239 |
Health and Empire at the Turn of the Century | p. 243 |
Conclusion | p. 249 |
Notes | p. 251 |
Weapons and Colonial Wars, 1830-1914 | p. 257 |
The Gun Revolution | p. 257 |
Guns in Africa | p. 265 |
The Scramble for Africa | p. 269 |
North America | p. 276 |
Argentina and Chile | p. 284 |
Ethiopia | p. 289 |
Conclusion | p. 291 |
Notes | p. 292 |
The Age of Air Control, 1911-1936 | p. 302 |
The Beginnings of Aviation | p. 303 |
Early Colonial Air Campaigns | p. 306 |
Great Britain in Iraq | p. 311 |
Air Control in Action | p. 314 |
Spain in the Rif | p. 321 |
Italy in Africa | p. 324 |
Conclusion | p. 327 |
Notes | p. 329 |
The Decline of Air Control, 1946-2007 | p. 334 |
France in Indochina | p. 335 |
France in Algeria | p. 337 |
The United States in Vietnam | p. 340 |
The Soviet Union in Afghanistan | p. 349 |
U.S. Military Aviation after Vietnam | p. 353 |
The Gulf War | p. 357 |
The Iraq War | p. 359 |
Conclusion | p. 363 |
Notes | p. 364 |
Conclusion Technology and Imperialism Redux | p. 370 |
Notes | p. 373 |
For Further Reading | p. 375 |
Index 381 | |
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