Possessing the World
Subtitle: Taking the Measurements of Colonisation from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century (European Expansion and Global Interaction)
Contributors: Andrene Everson (Translator)
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: July 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781845453381
Subjects: World history: c 1750 to c 1900; World history: from c 1900 -; World - General; History; History - General History; Administration; Colonies; History: World
Description: "Based on extensive research and comparative analyses, this volume recounts the history of five continents over an extended period of time. From the beginning of European expansion the question was posed: what were the 'empire tools' that gave Europe its military superiority, even before the industrial revolution? What was it that enabled Europeans to withstand life-threatening tropical diseases and to control indigenous populations? This book gives a fresh and wide-ranging view of the construction and collapse of the modern colonial empires of Europe, the United States of America and Japan."--BOOK JACKET.