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Author Abernethy, David B.

Title The dynamics of global dominance : European overseas empires, 1415-1980 / David B. Abernethy.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  940 A146D    Check Shelf
Description viii, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-504) and index.
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 ; The 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 ; The international dimension: war as the catalyst for independence -- Consequences of European overseas rule. Legacies ; The moral evaluation of colonialism.
Summary "In advancing a theory of imperialism that includes European and non-European actors, and in analyzing economic, social, and cultural as well as political dimensions of empire, Abernethy helps account for Europe's long occupation of global center stage. He also sheds light on key features of today's postcolonial world and on the legacies of empire, concluding with an insightful approach to the moral evaluation of colonialism."--Jacket.
Subject Europe -- Territorial expansion.
Europe -- Colonies.
Discoveries in geography.
Colonies. (OCoLC)fst00868456
Discoveries in geography. (OCoLC)fst00894950
Territorial expansion. (OCoLC)fst01355135
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
Imperialisme.
Overzeese expansie.
Koloniale rijken.
Europeanen.
Colonialismo (história) -- 1415-1980 -- Europa.
Kolonialismus.
Imperialismus.
Europa.
Added Author Rogers D. Spotswood Collection. TxSaTAM
Standard No. 9780300073041
ISBN 0300073046 (alk. paper)
9780300073041 (alk. paper)
9780300093148 (paperback)
0300093144 (paperback)
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