Based on an impressive body of information and data, this volume recounts the history of five continents over a long stretch of time and in a comparative approach. 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.…mehr
Based on an impressive body of information and data, this volume recounts the history of five continents over a long stretch of time and in a comparative approach. 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.
Bouda Etemad is Professor of History at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne, and the author of De l'utilité des empires. Colonisation et prospérité de l'Europe, XVIIIe-XXe siècle (Armand Colin 2005).
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Introduction PART I: TOOLS OF EMPIRE AND HUMAN COST OF THE COLONIAL CONQUESTS Chapter 1. Mortality and Numbers of the First Europeans in the Tropics * Overseas Necropolises * White Man's Solitude in the Tropics Chapter 2. Malaria, Quinine and Colonial Conquests * The American Phase: The 'Fever Tree' * The Asian Phase: The Greatness and Misery of the Plantation System * The African Phase: Quinine and Colonial Conquests Chapter 3. The Use of Indigenous Troops in Colonial Conquests * Asia and Africa Conquered by... Themselves * An Attempt at Quantification * On Good Human Resources Management * Empires at Bargain Prices Chapter 4. European Losses During the Conquests * Typology and Assessment of Losses * Weapons Technologies and European Losses * Transportation, Communications and the Cost of Empire Chapter 5. Indigenous Losses During the Conquests * Military Losses * Civilian Losses * Balance Sheet and Perspective PART II: COLONIAL AREAS AND POPULATIONS A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EMPIRES Chapter 6. Measuring the Land and Counting Heads * The Limitations of the Key Criteria * Comparative Sizes of the Colonial Empires * Counting Heads * Measuring the Land Chapter 7. The Rate and Scale of Colonisation * Periodicity * Major Trends * Regional Differences * List of the Colonial Powers Chapter 8. Comparative Portraits of the Empires I: 1760-1830 * The Spanish and Portuguese Colonies: The First Models * The Metamorphosis of the English Domain * The French Domain: A Fragile Structure * The Dutch Domain: From the Trading Empire to the Java War Chapter 9. Comparative Portraits of the Empires II: 1830-1880 * British Colonisation: Two Tiers * 'New' and 'Old' French Colonies * Java and the Cultivation System Chapter 10. Comparative Portraits of the Empires III: 1880-1938 * The Old Empire Builders: Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal * The New Colonisers of Africa: Belgium, Germany, Italy * The Non-European Colonisers: Japan and the United States Chapter 11. The Decolonisation Period * Definition * The Causes of Decolonisation * Decolonisation Underway * After Decolonisation Conclusion Appendixes Sources Bibliography Index of Places Index of Names
Introduction PART I: TOOLS OF EMPIRE AND HUMAN COST OF THE COLONIAL CONQUESTS Chapter 1. Mortality and Numbers of the First Europeans in the Tropics * Overseas Necropolises * White Man's Solitude in the Tropics Chapter 2. Malaria, Quinine and Colonial Conquests * The American Phase: The 'Fever Tree' * The Asian Phase: The Greatness and Misery of the Plantation System * The African Phase: Quinine and Colonial Conquests Chapter 3. The Use of Indigenous Troops in Colonial Conquests * Asia and Africa Conquered by... Themselves * An Attempt at Quantification * On Good Human Resources Management * Empires at Bargain Prices Chapter 4. European Losses During the Conquests * Typology and Assessment of Losses * Weapons Technologies and European Losses * Transportation, Communications and the Cost of Empire Chapter 5. Indigenous Losses During the Conquests * Military Losses * Civilian Losses * Balance Sheet and Perspective PART II: COLONIAL AREAS AND POPULATIONS A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EMPIRES Chapter 6. Measuring the Land and Counting Heads * The Limitations of the Key Criteria * Comparative Sizes of the Colonial Empires * Counting Heads * Measuring the Land Chapter 7. The Rate and Scale of Colonisation * Periodicity * Major Trends * Regional Differences * List of the Colonial Powers Chapter 8. Comparative Portraits of the Empires I: 1760-1830 * The Spanish and Portuguese Colonies: The First Models * The Metamorphosis of the English Domain * The French Domain: A Fragile Structure * The Dutch Domain: From the Trading Empire to the Java War Chapter 9. Comparative Portraits of the Empires II: 1830-1880 * British Colonisation: Two Tiers * 'New' and 'Old' French Colonies * Java and the Cultivation System Chapter 10. Comparative Portraits of the Empires III: 1880-1938 * The Old Empire Builders: Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal * The New Colonisers of Africa: Belgium, Germany, Italy * The Non-European Colonisers: Japan and the United States Chapter 11. The Decolonisation Period * Definition * The Causes of Decolonisation * Decolonisation Underway * After Decolonisation Conclusion Appendixes Sources Bibliography Index of Places Index of Names
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