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This masterful synthesis provides a much-needed, complete survey of European colonialism from 1700 to decolonization in the twentieth century. Written by an award-winning author, this advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook bridges, for the first time, the early modern Atlantic empires and the later Asian and African empires of 'high imperialism'. Viewing colonialism as a phenomenon of contact between Europe and the rest of the world, the author takes an 'entangled histories' approach, considering the surprising ways in which the…
The only textbook to offer a complete survey of the major European empires from 1700 onwards; most textbooks on European colonialism focus on a single empire
Allows students to compare and contrast the major Atlantic, Asian and African colonies of the early modern and 'high imperialism' periods
Written by an award-winning author, whose previous book won the Laurence Wylie Prize for superior scholarship
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Author
James R. Lehning,University of Utah
James R. Lehning is Professor of History at the University of Utah. His previous publications include To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic (2001) which won the Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies in 2003 and, as co-editor, Europeans in the World: Sources on Cultural Contact (2 volumes, 2002).