dynamics of global dominance
Subtitle: European overseas empires, 1415-1980
By: David B. Abernethy.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
Subjects: Discoveries in geography; Europe -- Territorial expansion; Europe -- Colonies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-504) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Parti WESTERN EUROPE AND THE WORLD; title: 1. Ceuta, Bojador, and Beyond: Europeans on the Move; title: 2. Why Did the Overseas Empires Rise, Persist, and Fall?; title: Partll PHASES OF IMPERIAL EXPANSION; title: AND CONTRACTION; title: 3. Phase 1: Expansion, 1415-1733; title: 4. Phase 2: Contraction, 1775-1824; title: 5. Phase 3: Expansion, 1824-1912; title: 6. Phase 4: Unstable Equilibrium, 1914-39; title: 7. Phase 5: Contraction, 1940-80; title: PartIll ACCOUNTING FOR IMPERIAL EXPANSION; title: 8. Western Europe as a Region: Shared Features; title: 9. Western Europe as a System of Competing States; title: o1. The Institutional Basis for the Triple Assault; title: n. Non-European Initiatives and Perceptions; title: rtIV CONSOLIDATING POWER; title: 12. Sectoral Institutions and Techniques of Control; title: 13. Sources of Colonial Weakness; title: PartV ACCOUNTING FOR IMPERIAL CONTRACTION; title: 14. Colonialism as a Self-Defeating Enterprise; title: 15. The International Dimension: War as the Catalyst; title: for Independence; title: PartVI CONSEQUENCES OF EUROPEAN OVERSEAS RULE; title: 16. Legacies; title: 17. The Moral Evaluation of Colonialism; title: Appendix. Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of the; title: Overseas Empires; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.