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Abernethy David B.. The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980. Yale University Press,2002. — 524 p.. 2002

For centuries Europeans ruled vast portions of the world, as inhabitants of west European countries sailed to distant continents and took possession of territories whose societies and economies they set out to change. How and why did these farflung empires form, persist, and finally fall? David Abernethy addresses these questions in this magisterial survey of the rise and decline of European overseas empires.

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Part 1 WESTERN EUROPE AND THE WORLD
Ceuta, Bojador, and Beyond: Europeans on the Move
On a summer day in the year 1415 a fleet of Portuguese ships set off from Lisbon.
EUROPE’S COLONIAL EMPIRES: DISTINCTIVE FEATURES
WHY STUDY EUROPE’S OVERSEAS EMPIRES?
2 Why Did the Overseas Empires Rise, Persist, and Fall?
This chapter provides conceptual toolsto account for the rise and decline of Euro­pean global dominance. Chapters 3-7 in part 2 are largely descriptive.
A CLASSIFICATION SCHEME: FIVE PHASES
AN APPROACH TO EXPLANATION
COMPONENTS OF POWER AND UNITS OF ANALYSIS
CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO EUROPEAN GLOBAL DOMINANCE
FACTORS ACCOUNTINGFOR DECOLONIZATION
Part 3 PHASES OF IMPERIAL EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION
Phase I: Expansion, 1415-1773
The first of the five phases was by far the longest, lasting roughly three and a half centuries.
COMPETITION AMONG WEST EUROPEAN STATES
DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF EXPANSION
TYPES OF COLONIES
ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF EXPANSION
EUROPEAN SECTORAL INSTITUTIONS: ROLES AND INTERACTIONS
Phase 2: Contraction, 1775-1824
For three and a half centuries Europeans extended the bounds of their overseas possessions. In the half century that commenced in the 1770s the scope of imperial holdings shrank dramatically.
DECOLONIZATION AND VIOLENCE
ELITES IN THE NEW STATES: BACKGROUNDS, IDENTITIES, OBJECTIVES
RELATIONS AMONG INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS
Phase 3: Expansion, 1824-1912
The era of European losses in the Americas was followed by a significant expansion of holdings in Asia, Africa, and Oceania, most visibly and highly publicized from the 1870s onward, when a scramble for still-unclaimed territories took place.
BUILDERS OF EMPIRE: OLD ACTORS AND NEW
RELATIONS AMONG IMPERIAL POWERS
DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF EUROPEAN EXPANSION
THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ITS EFFECTS
COMPLIANCE MECHANISMS
SECTORAL INSTITUTIONS: ROLES AND INTERRELATIONSHIPS
Phase 4: Unstable Equilibrium, 1914-39
The fourth phase in the history of overseas empires encompassed two world wars and global economic depression.
CHANGES IN THE SCOPE OF EMPIRE
PRESSURES FOR CHANGE IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE
UNDERLYING CHANGES: CONSOLIDATION OF EUROPEAN RULE
UNDERLYING CHANGES: EMPOWERMENT OF THE COLONIZED
COLONIZED VERSUS COLONIZERS
NATIONALISM AND ITS ALTERNATIVES
Phase 5: Contraction, 1940-80
The end of empire came swiftly.
CRITICAL EVENTS
SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ASPECTS OF DECOLONIZATION
THE IMPERIAL DESTABILIZER: WORLD WAR II
VERTICAL VIOLENCE: DIFFERENCES IN METROPOLES’ POLICIES
HORIZONTAL VIOLENCE
POLITICAL ELITES IN THE NEW STATES
THE INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION EFFECT
Part III ACCOUNTING FOR IMPERIAL EXPANSION
(Overleaf) Fort Batavia (Java), administrative headquarters of the Verenigde Oost- Indische Compagnie in Asia. Painting by A. Beeckman, 1656. Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
Western Europe as a Region: Shared Features
I now turn from describing and analyzing events to the more challenging task of interpreting and explaining them.
TECHNOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY
GEOSTRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS
AN ASSERTIVE WORLDVIEW
SECTORAL INSTITUTIONS
A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON
Western Europe as a System of Competing States
was driven not only by features widely shared throughout west­ ern Europe but also by the region’s deep divisions.
SPECIFIC METROPOLES
The Institutional Basis for the Triple Assault
A striking feature of European overseas initiatives is their multisectoral character.
SECTORAL INSTITUTIONS: SPECIALIZATION AND SPATIAL STRETCH
CROSS-SECTORAL LINKS
A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF SECTORAL LINKS: MALACCA
THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUALS
Non-European Initiatives and Perceptions
When Europeans visited other lands they simultaneously encountered other peo­ples.1
RESISTANCE AND ITS EFFECTS
LIMITATIONS ON EFFECTIVE RESISTANCE
RELATIONS AMONG INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES22
DIVISION AND WEAKNESS WITHIN INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES
SECTORS
THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUALS
Part IV CONSOLIDATING POWER
(Overleaf) Missionary in German Kamerun prepares to baptize a woman by immersion. From National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., courtesy of Instructional Resources Corporation.
Sectoral Institutions and Techniques of Control
An overseas empire gained is not necessarily an empire retained.
RETAINING METROPOLITAN CONTROL
PENETRATING AND GOVERNING COLONIAL SOCIETY
CONSOLIDATING CONTROL OVER SETTLERS: POLICY DILEMMAS
NONGOVERNMENT SECTORAL INSTITUTIONS
SECTORAL AUTONOMY
COOPERATION ACROSS SECTORAL LINES
EUROPEANS AS A RACIAL CASTE
Sources of Colonial Weakness
Europeans did not deploy everywhere the full battery of institutions and techniques noted in chapter 12.
COLLABORATION AND ACCOMMODATION
EXIT, AVOIDANCE, SABOTAGE
DISPLACEMENT, SELF-ABASEMENT
REBELLION
NATIONALISM: OBSTACLES ALONG THE ROAD TO SUCCESS
THE SETTLER POPULATION
CONCLUSIONS
Part V ACCOUNTING FOR IMPERIAL CONTRACTION
Colonialism as a Self-Defeating Enterprise
Part 5 proposes to account for the decline and fall of European empires.
CONTRADICTIONS OF COLONIALISM
NEW-STATE ELITES: MAKING UP THE DEFICIT
EFFECTS OF WESTERN EDUCATION
THE PRECEDENT-SETTERS: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA AND INDIA
The International Dimension: War as the Catalyst for Independence
What turned precariously poised relationships into unsustainable ones were crises impacting several empires at the same time, crises whose course and outcome no one metropole could control.
CHANGES IN CAPACITY
WARTIME EXPECTATIONS
POSTWAR CRISES: THE COLONIAL MOBILIZATION OF ANGER
THE INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION EFFECT
CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS
Part VI CONSEQUENCES OF EUROPEAN OVERSEAS RULE
(Overleaf) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India addresses the United Nations General Assembly, i960. United Nations Photo Library, courtesy Instructional Resources Corporation.
Legacies
Identifying the legacies of European rule is fraught with conceptual and method­ological perils.
IMPACTS ON COLONIZED PEOPLES AND TERRITORIES
IMPACTS ON WESTERN EUROPE
GLOBAL IMPACTS
The Moral Evaluation of Colonialism
Was European colonial rule good or bad? The subject matter invites normative judgments, for at issue are the lives and livelihoods, the well-being and worldviews of hundreds of millions of human beings.
WHERE DO CRITICS AND DEFENDERS DISAGREE?
HOW FAR APART ARE CRITICS AND DEFENDERS?
EVALUATION BETWEEN THE EXTREMES
A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
APPENDIX SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS OF THE OVERSEAS EMPIRES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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