H L Wesseling

The European Colonial Empires

1815-1919

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For courses in Imperial history. The European Empires is about the conquest, occupation, organization and exploitation of European colonies in the 19th century. It has an extremely broad coverage and includes all of the major European powers, including the Netherlands, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Russia. Taking a comparative approach, the text looks at the successes and failures of each administration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781138138360
• ISBN-10: 1138138363
• Artikelnr.: 45101356

Autorenporträt

H. L. Wesseling is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Leiden and was the founder and first director of its Centre for the History of European Expansion. His previous titles include Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa (1996) and Imperialism and Colonialism: Essays on the History of European Expansion (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: THE EXPANSION OF EUROPE, 1492-1815.
CHAPTER 2LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENTS, 1815-1919. CHAPTER 3 THE FIRST HALF OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY, 1815-70. CHAPTER 4 MODERN IMPERIALISM, 1870-1914:
GENERAL ASPECTS. CHAPTER 5 EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA. CHAPTER 6
MODERN IMPERIALISM IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC. CHAPTER 7 THE FIRST WORLD WAR
AND THE COLONIES. CHAPTER 8CONCLUSION. BIBLIOGRAPHY. SYNCHRONISTIC TABLE.
INDEX.