An Imperial World

1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Encountering Empires Chapter One: The Raj: British Empire in India and South Asia, 1757-1947 Chapter Two: The Scramble for Africa: European Colonialism and African Resistance, 1806-1945 Chapter Three: Hidden Empire: Dependency, Domination, and Neo-Colonialism in the Americas, 1783-1933 Chapter Four: Empires of Freedom: The Modern Imperial and Social State in Asia, 1731-1946 Epilogue: Making Connections: An Imperial World, Then and Now 2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Encountering Empires Definitions and Contexts A World of Empires, 1500-1750 Connections and Colonies since 1750 Chapter One: The Raj: British Empire in India and South Asia, 1757-1947 Definitions and Contexts Rebellion and Repression Under the Raj: British Empire in India (1857-1947) SOURCES Remaking an Empire: Culture, Reform, and the East India Company Anti-Imperial Critique: Victorian Empire through Indian Eyes Colonial Subjects Look Back: Indian Memories of the Raj Chapter Two: The Scramble for Africa: European Colonialism and African Resistance, 1806-1945 Dividing Africa: European Diplomats and the Legalities of Colonial Conquest Contingent Conquest: Windows of African Vulnerability and European Opportunity Empires of Extraction: Administering Africa in the New Colonial Order The Colonies Strike Back: Hybrid Cultures and Shades of Resistance Double-Edged Swords: The Unintended Consequences of Global Colonialism SOURCES Mentalities of Rule: Administering French West Africa (1908) Empire and Its Discontents: Investigating the Belgian Congo (1905) Race and the Imperial Economy: An African View of the Native Lands Act (1916) Colonial Crossings I: Cultures of Health and Religion (1893) Colonial Crossings II: Cultures of Religion and Health (1937) Chapter Three : Hidden Empire: Dependency, Domination, and Neo-Colonialism in the Americas, 1783-1933 National Liberation as Elite Freedom: Cultural Mixing and Social Divides Empires of Force and Freedom: Territorial Expansion and Indirect Influence Rethinking the Hidden Empire: Colonial Rebellion and Its Costs SOURCES An Empire of Ideals: The United States as a Colonial Power (1899). Ideals Against the Empire: The USA Should Not Be a Colonial Power (1898). Economies of Exploitation: The Rubber Trade in Putumayo (1911). Cash Colonies: Tracing Finance and Politics in a Neocolonial World (1922). Chapter Four: Empires of Freedom: The Modern Imperial and Social State in Asia, 1731-1946 Paradoxes of Socialist Colonialism: New Visions for Central Asia Benevolent Assimilation: American Colonial Power Across the Pacific Emulating Empire While Assisting Asia: Paradoxes of Japanese Imperialism SOURCES The Case for Colonizing the Philippines (1900). The Case against Philippine Colonization (1899). Japan as Colonizer: Imperial Power in Taiwan (1912) Anti-Colonial Empire: Liberating Women in Soviet Central Asia (1927) Epilogue: Making Connections: An Imperial World, Then and Now SOURCES One for All, All for One: Xinjiang as an Inalienable Part of China (2003)