The Story
In Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective, Heather StreetsSalter and Trevor R. Getz provide a thorough overview of modern empires and colonialism from the late fifteenth century to the present. Synthesizing the vast outpouring of new scholarship that examines empires in a global context, the book pays as much attention to the Ottoman, Mughal, Ming, and Qing Empires as to European colonialism, and stresses the continuous social, political, and cultural interactions between colonizers and colonized.Amply illustrated with photographs and fullcolor maps, Empires and Colonies in the Modern World examines numerous issuesincluding commodity flows, panmovements, and anticolonial activismthat superseded the boundaries of colonies and empires entirely. It calls attention not only to the complexities of the internal dynamics of individual empires, but also to the constant interactions between empires, and between colonies with different national metropoles.
Description
In Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective, Heather StreetsSalter and Trevor R. Getz provide a thorough overview of modern empires and colonialism from the late fifteenth century to the present. Synthesizing the vast outpouring of new scholarship that examines empires in a global context, the book pays as much attention to the Ottoman, Mughal, Ming, and Qing Empires as to European colonialism, and stresses the continuous social, political, and cultural interactions between colonizers and colonized.Amply illustrated with photographs and fullcolor maps, Empires and Colonies in the Modern World examines numerous issuesincluding commodity flows, panmovements, and anticolonial activismthat superseded the boundaries of colonies and empires entirely. It calls attention not only to the complexities of the internal dynamics of individual empires, but also to the constant interactions between empires, and between colonies with different national metropoles.
