European Overseas Empire, 1879 - 1999: A Short History

ISBN-13: 9781119130116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str.

Matthew G. Stanard

Opis

A Timely Look Back at the Era That Shaped Our World Thousands of years of recorded history show that the main way in which human societies have been organized is as empires.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgements ix

List of Abbreviations xi

Introduction 1

1 The Nineteenth –Century Context 11

2 The Civilizing Mission and the Race for Empire, 1879 1902 33

3 Resistance and Consolidation, 1902 1912 67

4 Empires at War, 1912 1922 87

5 The Colonial Era, 1922 1931 109

6 World War II, 1931 1945 131

7 Unfinished and Finished Empires, 1945 1958 153

8 Decolonization s Second Wave, 1958 1975 181

9 Empire After Imperialism: 1975 1999 and Beyond 201

Index 223

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