1. Europe and the 'Third World': An Introduction and Overview -- 2. Europe and the Americas -- 3. Europe and Asia, c.1500 to c.1880 -- 4. Europe and Africa from the Slave Trade to the Colonial Conquest -- 5. European Colonialism and Indigenous Society in Asia -- 6. The Economic and Social Consequences of Modern Colonialism in Africa -- 7. The Balance Sheet of Modern Colonialism -- 8. The Political Economy of Decolonisation -- 9. Europe and the 'Third World' in Retrospect
Summary
"Europe can be described as the monstrous shaper of world history. By incorporating overseas regions in their dependent empires and implanting their institutions and ideologies in alien cultures, Europeans inducted most of humanity into the international society of sovereign states. By promoting intercontinental trade, and coercing native labour into the productive enterprises they controlled abroad, Europeans disseminated Western market capitalism throughout the world."--BOOK JACKET. "In Europe and the Third World, Bernard Waites has written a stimulating analysis of Europe's role in world history that focuses on Western economic expansion into the regions loosely known as the 'Third World'."--BOOK JACKET
