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Trevor Getz is an Assoc. Professor of African history at San Francisco State University and author of Slavery and Reform in West Africa. He has co-authored several textbooks including Exchanges: A Global History and the forthcoming African Histories. Trained as an Africanist, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He is currently working on both a graphic novel and a monograph of the life of Abina Mansah, a young enslaved woman who liberated herself in 19th century Ghana .

Heather Streets-Salter is an associate professor of history at Washington State University, where she teaches world and imperial history at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is director of the WSU History Department's world history Ph.D. program, and she directs the undergraduate program in World Civilizations. She is the author of Martial Races: The Military, Race, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 (2004), and is co-author, with Jerry Bentley and Herb Ziegler, of Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History (2007 and 2010). She is currently working on a monograph entitled Webs of Empire, which explores the connections between both colonial administrators and nationalists in French Indochina, British Malaya, and the Dutch East Indies from 1890 to 1937.

Maps	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Why Define?	p. 1
Empire	p. 1
Imperialism	p. 6
Colonialism	p. 9
Global and Modern	p. 12
Questions	p. 15
The Rise of Early Modern Empires, c. 1350-1650	p. 16
Empire: The Emergence of Early Modern States and Empires in Eurasia and Africa	p. 16
The Emergence of the Early Modern State System	p. 17
A Gunpowder Revolution?	p. 24
Sectoral Alliances	p. 28
The Search for Legitimacy	p. 31
Sub-Saharan African Empires?	p. 33
Conclusion	p. 37
Questions	p. 37
Imperialism and Colonialism: Imperial Interaction and Nascent Colonialism in Early Modern Eurasia and North Africa	p. 38
Models of Early Modern Colonialism	p. 39
Themes in Early Modern Colonialism	p. 47
The Economic Underpinnings of Early Modern Integration	p. 48
Imperial Interaction and Grand Alliances	p. 49
The Portuguese Estado da India	p. 52
Conclusion	p. 56
Questions	p. 56
Imperialism: Intersecting Empires in the Americas	p. 57
Iberian Motivations for Exploration, Trade, and Conquest	p. 59
The First Iberian Colonies in the Americas	p. 61
American Imperialism	p. 63
The Columbian Exchange	p. 66
Iberian Empires in the New World	p. 69
Questions	p. 76
Atlantic and Asian Empires in a Global Age, c. 1600-1830	p. 77
Colonialism: Competition for Empire and the Rise of the Slave/Plantation Complex	p. 77
Competition for Empire	p. 79
New Europeans in the Americas-English, French, and Dutch Colonial Efforts	p. 81
The Sugar Revolution	p. 86
Sugar, Slavery, and Transatlantic Societies	p. 90
Questions	p. 98
Empire: Empire, Identity, and the Making of New Societies in the Atlantic World	p. 99
The Role of Identity in History	p. 100
New Societies, New Peoples in the Americas	p. 102
New Societies, New Peoples in Africa and Asia	p. 108
The Process of Identity Formation	p. 110
Questions	p. 117
Imperialism and Colonialism: Asian Land Empires in a Global Age	p. 118
Continuity and Change from the Mid-Seventeenth Century	p. 121
Opportunities and Challenges	p. 124
Imperial Strategies and Colonial Modes of Rule	p. 129
Questioning Imperial Decline	p. 132
Questions	p. 136
Informal Empires? c. 1810-1880	p. 137
Empire: Revolutions in the Atlantic World	p. 137
The Seven Years' War and Its Consequences	p. 139
The War of American Independence and Its Legacies	p. 146
The French Revolutionary Wars and the French Caribbean	p. 149
The Napoleonic Wars and the Spanish and Portuguese Americas	p. 154
Atlantic Rebellions and Global Wars in Southern Africa	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 159
Questions	p. 160
Imperialism: The industrial Revolution and the Era of Informal Imperialism	p. 161
Informal Empire-Anti-Imperialist or Imperialist?	p. 164
Industry and Empire	p. 165
Cultures of Informal Imperialism	p. 168
Informal Imperialism in Action	p. 170
Formal Expansion in the Era of Informal Imperialism	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 186
Questions	p. 187
Colonialism: Change, Response, and Resistance in the Colonies	p. 188
Modes of Governance	p. 190
Common Themes in Nineteenth-Century Colonialism	p. 192
Resistance to the Imposition and Effects of Colonial Rule	p. 206
Conclusion	p. 209
Questions	p. 210
The New Imperialism, c. 1870-1930	p. 211
Imperialism: The New Imperialism and the Scramble for Colonies	p. 211
What Was the New Imperialism?	p. 213
Why Did the New Imperialism Happen?	p. 217
The Annexation of Burma, 1885	p. 222
The Struggle for the Upper Nile Valley: The Race for Fashoda from British, French, and African Perspectives, 1896-1899	p. 224
Japanese Policy Formation and the Invasion of Korea, 1874-1910	p. 226
Public Opinion in the United States and the Invasion of Haiti, 1915	p. 228
Conclusion	p. 229
Questions	p. 229
Colonialism: Colonial Subjects and the Pacification of Colonies in the Era of the New Imperialism	p. 230
The Pacification of Vietnam and the Gold Coast	p. 231
Imposing Colonial Authority and Sovereignty	p. 233
Problematizing Collaboration	p. 236
Problematizing Resistance	p. 240
Re-evaluating the Pacification of the Gold Coast and Indochina	p. 242
Conclusion	p. 246
Questions	p. 247
Empire: The Sinews of the New Imperialism	p. 248
Commodities	p. 249
Migration	p. 253
Missionism	p. 256
War and Military Power	p. 259
Gender, Sexuality, and Race	p. 264
Conclusion	p. 268
Questions	p. 269
The Rise and Fall of High Imperialism, c. 1890-1975	p. 270
Imperialism and Colonialism: Imperial Projects and Colonial Petitions in the High Imperial Era	p. 270
The Colonizers' Model of the World	p. 271
Hierarchy and Colonial Projects in the Era of High imperialism	p. 274
The Proconsular State and the Realities of Colonial Rule	p. 278
Strategies of Colonial Subjects: Negotiation, Accommodation, and Petition	p. 279
Conclusion	p. 283
Questions	p. 284
Empire: Imperial World Wars and the Slow March toward Decolonization	p. 285
Imperial Ambitions and the First World War	p. 287
The Colonial Experience and the First World War	p. 291
The Armenian Genocide as a Colonial Event	p. 295
Imperial Ambitions and the Second World War	p. 296
The Colonial Experience and the Second World War	p. 297
The Holocaust as a Colonial Event	p. 299
The Aftermath of the Second World War and Political Decolonization	p. 300
Conclusion	p. 304
Questions	p. 305
Imperialism and Colonialism: Nationalism and Independence	p. 306
The Challenge Facing Anti-Colonial Movements and the Search for Unifying Ideologies	p. 307
The Development of Emancipatory Nationalism	p. 309
Organizing Resistance Among the People	p. 312
The Diffusion of Emancipatory Nationalism: A Global Perspective	p. 313
Pan-Movements	p. 315
Settlers and Settler Nationalism	p. 318
The Messy Reality of the Road to Independence	p. 320
Conclusion	p. 322
Questions	p. 323
The World We Live in, c. 1948 to Today	p. 324
Imperialism and Colonialism: A Post-Colonial World?	p. 324
Cold War Imperialism?	p. 325
Economic Neo-Imperialism?	p. 334
Cultural Imperialism and Postcolonialism	p. 338
The Persistence of Empire?	p. 341
Glossary	p. 343
Index	p. 347
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Modern Imperialism and Colonialism : A Global Perspective

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