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Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective
In Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective, Heather Streets-Salter and Trevor R. Getz provide a thorough overview of modern empires and colonialism from the late fifteenth century to the present. Synthesizing the vast outpouring of new scholarship that examines empires in a global context, the book pays as much attention to the Ottoman, Mughal, Ming, and Qing Empires as to European colonialism, and stresses the continuous social, political, and cultural interactions between colonizers and colonized.
Amply illustrated with photographs and full-color maps, Empires and Colonies in the Modern World examines numerous issues--including commodity flows, pan-movements, and anti-colonial activism--that superseded the boundaries of colonies and empires entirely. It calls attention not only to the complexities of the internal dynamics of individual empires, but also to the constant interactions between empires, and between colonies with different national metropoles.
Amply illustrated with photographs and full-color maps, Empires and Colonies in the Modern World examines numerous issues--including commodity flows, pan-movements, and anti-colonial activism--that superseded the boundaries of colonies and empires entirely. It calls attention not only to the complexities of the internal dynamics of individual empires, but also to the constant interactions between empires, and between colonies with different national metropoles.
592 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2015
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About the author
Heather E. Streets-Salter
22 books4 followersHeather Streets-Salter is the Chair and an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She received her PhD in 1998 from Duke University, USA.
Streets-Salter’s research focuses on world history, the structure of empires and colonial relationships, and the scholarship of pedagogy. She is the author of Martial Races: The Military, Martial Races, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 (2004), Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History (2006, 2009, 2012) with Jerry Bentley and Herb Ziegler, and Modern Imperialism and Colonialism: A Global Perspective (2010 and 2014) with Trevor Getz. She is completing a monograph entitled Beyond Empire: Southeast Asia and the World During the Great War, which explores the multiple impacts of World War I on this region. This monograph is integrally related to her current research interests in studying imperialism and colonialism as global phenomena. She argues that colonial histories cannot be understood without reference to neighboring colonies, rival metropoles, and even—in this case—extra-colonial locations such as China, the United States, the Ottoman Empire, and Germany.
Streets-Salter’s teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels focuses on World History, the history of imperialism, gender history, and British history.
Streets-Salter’s research focuses on world history, the structure of empires and colonial relationships, and the scholarship of pedagogy. She is the author of Martial Races: The Military, Martial Races, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 (2004), Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History (2006, 2009, 2012) with Jerry Bentley and Herb Ziegler, and Modern Imperialism and Colonialism: A Global Perspective (2010 and 2014) with Trevor Getz. She is completing a monograph entitled Beyond Empire: Southeast Asia and the World During the Great War, which explores the multiple impacts of World War I on this region. This monograph is integrally related to her current research interests in studying imperialism and colonialism as global phenomena. She argues that colonial histories cannot be understood without reference to neighboring colonies, rival metropoles, and even—in this case—extra-colonial locations such as China, the United States, the Ottoman Empire, and Germany.
Streets-Salter’s teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels focuses on World History, the history of imperialism, gender history, and British history.
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March 9, 2019
For educators, this book is essential. It provides accessible definitions and summaries of complicated world events. Well researched and actually global, instead of leaving out important regions.
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