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Zusatztext A masterly account full of fresh insights and engaging arguments. Their innovative structure enables Aldrich and Stucki to wield the historical lens with enviable flair. The vast topic of European empire is telescoped into comprehensible trends and themes, while still allowing for the precise focus on distinct times and places that brings the past alive. This is a history of the colonial world for the here and now. Informationen zum Autor Robert Aldrich is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. His works on colonial history include Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (2005), Cultural Encounters and Homosexuality in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity (2014), and Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (2018). He is the co-author (with John Connell) of The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited (2020), and co-editor (with Kirsten McKenzie) of The Routledge History of Western Empires (2014) and co-editor (with Cindy McCreery) of Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empires (2016), Royals on Tour: Politics, Pageantry and Colonialism (2018) , and Monarchies and Decolonisation in Asia (2020). Andreas Stucki is Ludwig and Margarethe Quidde Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome, Italy. He specialises in Caribbean and Iberian history of the nineteenth and twentieth century. He is the author of Violence and Gender in Africa’s Iberian Colonies: Feminizing the Portuguese and Spanish Empire, 1950s-1970s (2019) and of a monograph on the social history of the Cuban Wars of Independence, published in German in 2012 and in Spanish in 2017 ( Aufstand und Zwangsumsiedlung: Die kubanischen Unabhängigkeitskriege, 1868-1898 ; Las Guerras de Cuba: Una historia de violencia y campos de concentración ). Vorwort An authoritative history of modern European empires which covers: eras of colonisation and decolonisation; transnational themes in colonialism; and ‘snapshots’ of particular colonies at key moments. Zusammenfassung An authoritative history of modern European empires which covers: eras of colonisation and decolonisation; transnational themes in colonialism; and ‘snapshots’ of particular colonies at key moments. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsList of MapsPreface Acknowledgements1. The Writing (and Reading) of Colonial History Part I. Chronologies 2. Early Modern European Colonialism, 1490s-18153. The Making of Overseas Empires in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1815-19144. Colonial Rule and Misrule, 1914-19405. The Unmaking of Overseas Empires, 1940-1975 Part II. Themes 6. Land and Sea: Colonialism and the Environment7. Crossed Destinies: The People of Empire8. Slavery, Indentured Migration and Empire9. Settler Colonialism: The British Dominions10. Colonialism and the Body11. Colonialism and the Mind12. Colonialism and the Soul13. Representations of Colonialism Part III. Cases 14. The Spanish Andes, 178015. Mauritius, 181016. Cuba, 181217. India, 187618. Burma and Vietnam, 1883-188519. Global Conflict, 190020. The South Pacific, 190321. Ceylon, 190722. German Southwest Africa, 190823. Ethiopia, 193624. The Dutch East Indies, 193825. Palestine and the Middle East, 194626. Algeria, 196227. The Portuguese Empire in Africa, 197128. Western Sahara, 197529. Belgium and the Congo, 1897 and 201830. Epilogue: The Legacies of EmpiresFurther ReadingIndex...
