Europe and the Third World: From Colonisation to Decolonisation c. 1500–1998

ISBN-13: 9780333588697 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 372 str.

Bernard Waites

Opis

Europe and the Third World provides a schematic historical analysis of the relations between Europe and the extra-European periphery within the twin contexts of global economic inequality and global disparities in political power. The colonial and imperial relationships between western Europe and the wider world since the late fifteenth century, and the course and consequences of decolonization, form the substance of the discussion, which concludes with a glance at the links between the European Union and the world's poorest states, most of which are former colonies.

Spis treści

Europe and the Third World An Introduction and Overview.- Europe and the Americas.- Europe and Asia, c.1500-1880.- Europe and Africa from the Slave Trade to the Colonial Conquest.- European Colonialism and Indigenous Society in Asia.- The Economic and Social Consequences of Modern Colonialism in Africa.- The Balance Sheet of Modern Colonialism.- The Political Economy of Decolonialism.- Europe and the Third World in Retrospect.- Index.

O autorze

BERNARD WAITES is Lecturer in European Humanities at The Open University.