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| Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Sound Recording |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David B Abernethy |
| OCLC Number: | 250806309 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2000. |
| Description: | 1 audio disc : digital mono ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Contents: | Western Europe and the world: Cueta, Bojador, and beyond, Europeans on the move; Why did the overseas empires rise, persist, and fall -- Phases of imperial expansion and contraction: Phase 1, expansion, 1415-1773; Phase 2, contraction, 1775-1824; Phase 3, expansion, 1824-1912; Phase 4, unstable equilibrium, 1914-39; Phase 5: expansion, 1840-80 -- Accounting for imperial expansion: Western Europe as a region, shared features; Western Europe as a system of competing states; Institutional basis for the triple assault; Non-European initiatives and perception -- Consolidating power: Sectoral institution and techniques of control; Sources of colonial weakness -- Accounting for imperial contraction: Colonialism and self-defeating enterprise; International dimension, war as the catalyst for independence -- Consequences of European overseas rule: Legacies; Moral evaluation of colonialism -- Appendix: Spatial and temporal dimensions of the overseas empires. |
| Responsibility: | David B. Abernethy. |
Abstract:
This survey of the rise and decline of European overseas empires asks how and why these empires were formed, persisted, and eventually fell. The author explains Europe's long occupation of global
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