- 240 pages
- English
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About this book
This text helps students understand world history by focusing on an issue that has profoundly shaped the modern world order: the establishment and collapse of global empires since 1750.
An Imperial World uses a combination of primary documents and analytical essays, both tightly focused around four case studies: India, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. It examines the historical development of colonial systems and shows their enormous role in shaping the modern world order. It is meant to be thematic and suggestive, offering arguments and information to serve as a starting point for discussion and exploration.
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Index
Note: Locators in bold refer to illustrations in the text.
- Abbas I, 18
- Abeokuta
- Christian conversion, 89
- Aboriginal groups, 153, 179, 189
- Abul Khayr, 157
- Aceh
- rebellions in, 5, 153
- Afghanistan, 37, 42, 45, 159
- Africa, colonialism in. See also Algeria; Angola; Congo; Egypt; Ethiopia; Ghana; Libya; Liberia; Sierra Leone; South Africa
- administration by colonialists, 81–82
- benefits to Africans, 82–83
- brutality of, 85–87, 92–93
- Christian evangelism, 87, 106–107
- in Congo, 86, 87
- resistance to, 87–90
- syncretic religious practices, 88–89
- economic benefits to colonialists, 82–83
- history of colonialism in, 72–77
- justifications for colonialism, 69–71, 82–83
- abolishment of slave trade, 83
- as civilizing mission, 21–22, 87, 89, 95, 106–107
- public health, 82–83
- medicine, 106, 111–112
- reasons for rapid subjugation by colonialists, 77–81
- drought and disease, 80–81, 85
- superior technology, 68, 77–80
- resistance to colonialism, 77–78, 92–93, 98
- educated indigenous elites, 95–97
- nonviolent, 93–94
- resistance to Christian evangelism, 87–90
- resistance to taxation and conscription policies, 90–92
- shift in colonial diplomacy, 73...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Series Editor’s Preface
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Starting Points
- The Raj: British Empire in India and South Asia, 1757–1947
- 2 The Scramble for Africa: European Colonialism and African Resistance, 1806–1945
- 3 Hidden Empire: Dependency, Domination, and Neo-Colonialism in the Americas, 1783–1933
- 4 Empires of Freedom: The Modern Imperial and Social State in Asia, 1731–1991
- Epilogue: Making Connections
- Bibliography
- Index