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.
Author(s): Bouda Etemad
Series: European expansion and global interaction
Publisher: Berghahn Books,
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: ix, 252 p.;
City: New York
PART I: TOOLS OF EMPIRE AND HUMAN COST OF THE COLONIAL CONQUESTS
Chapter 1. Mortality and Numbers of the First Europeans in the Tropics
Chapter 2. Malaria, Quinine and Colonial Conquests
Chapter 3. The Use of Indigenous Troops in Colonial Conquests
Chapter 4. European Losses During the Conquests
Chapter 5. Indigenous Losses During the Conquests
PART II: COLONIAL AREAS AND POPULATIONS A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EMPIRES
Chapter 6. Measuring the Land and Counting Heads
Chapter 7. The Rate and Scale of Colonisation
Chapter 8. Comparative Portraits of the Empires I: 1760–1830
Chapter 9. Comparative Portraits of the Empires II: 1830–1880
Chapter 10. Comparative Portraits of the Empires III: 1880–1938
Chapter 11. The Decolonisation Period
Conclusion
Appendixes
Sources
Bibliography
Index of Places
Index of Names
