| Description |
xxviii, 354 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction. The Oldest Europe and its Neighbours. The Late Middle Ages: Contraction and Expansion. The Shape of Modern Europe. Europe and the World: The Seventeenth-Century Interval. The Eighteenth-Century Outlook. The Nineteenth Century: World Domination -- 2. India. Conquest and the Spoils. Impulses of Reform. British Isolation: Splendid or Perilous? The Mutiny and its Effects. Rebuilding an Alien Power. Missionaries and Indian Religion. Imperfect Sympathies -- 3. Other Colonies in Asia. The British in Ceylon. The British in Burma. The British in Malaya. The Netherlands East Indies. French Indochina. Russia in Asia -- 4. The Islamic World. Turkey. Tourists in the Near East. Egypt and North Africa. Persia. The Oriental Scene: Despotism, Hubble-Bubble, Harem. Christianity and Islam -- 5. The Far East. China: An Illusion Fading. Celestial Empire and Foreign Barbarian. Foreign Residents in China. Estimates of the Chinese Character. Growth of Chinese Xenophobia |
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The Yellow Peril. Korea, Tibet, Siam. The Opening of Japan. Western Opinions of the Japanese -- 6. Africa. Africans in Europe. Africans in the Americas. The Slave Trade and its Suppression. Europeans in Western Africa. Europeans in Eastern Africa. Southern Africa: the Conflict of Races. Belgians and Germans. White Settlers. The 'Child-Races' and their Reaction -- 7. The South Seas. Free Love on Tahiti. Decorum on the Lewchew Islands. White Savages and Brown in the Pacific. Missionary Influence and Western Rule. New Zealand and the Maoris. Australia and the Aborigines -- 8. Latin America. Independence: White Man and Indian. Imitation Europe or New World? Spanish America through European Eyes. Brazil and the Democracy of Races. Decadence and the Dictators -- 9. Conclusion |
| Analysis |
Imperialism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Reprinted with a new preface. _ Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Colonies.
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Indigenous peoples.
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Racism.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045680 -- History -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006124
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Europe -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045680 -- History -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167
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| LC no. |
96180106 |
| ISBN |
1897959230 |
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