Colonial World

Robert Aldrich is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. His works on colonial history include Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (2005), Cultural Encounters and Homosexuality in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity (2014), and Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (2018). He is the co-author (with John Connell) of The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited (2020), and co-editor (with Kirsten McKenzie) of The Routledge History of Western Empires (2014) and co-editor (with Cindy McCreery) of Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empires (2016), Royals on Tour: Politics, Pageantry and Colonialism (2018), and Monarchies and Decolonisation in Asia (2020).Andreas Stucki is Ludwig and Margarethe Quidde Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome, Italy. He specialises in Caribbean and Iberian history of the nineteenth and twentieth century. He is the author of Violence and Gender in Africa’s Iberian Colonies: Feminizing the Portuguese and Spanish Empire, 1950s-1970s (2019) and of a monograph on the social history of the Cuban Wars of Independence, published in German in 2012 and in Spanish in 2017 (Aufstand und Zwangsumsiedlung: Die kubanischen Unabhängigkeitskriege, 1868-1898; Las Guerras de Cuba: Una historia de violencia y campos de concentración).

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsPreface Acknowledgements1. The Writing (and Reading) of Colonial HistoryPart I. Chronologies2. Early Modern European Colonialism, 1490s-18153. The Making of Overseas Empires in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1815-19144. Colonial Rule and Misrule, 1914-19405. The Unmaking of Overseas Empires, 1940-1975Part II. Themes6. Land and Sea: Colonialism and the Environment7. Crossed Destinies: The People of Empire8. Slavery, Indentured Migration and Empire9. Settler Colonialism: The British Dominions10. Colonialism and the Body11. Colonialism and the Mind12. Colonialism and the Soul13. Representations of ColonialismPart III. Cases14. The Spanish Andes, 178015. Mauritius, 181016. Cuba, 181217. India, 187618. Burma and Vietnam, 1883-188519. Global Conflict, 190020. The South Pacific, 190321. Ceylon, 190722. German Southwest Africa, 190823. Ethiopia, 193624. The Dutch East Indies, 193825. Palestine and the Middle East, 194626. Algeria, 196227. The Portuguese Empire in Africa, 197128. Western Sahara, 197529. Belgium and the Congo, 1897 and 201830. Epilogue: The Legacies of EmpiresFurther ReadingIndex

The Colonial World will appeal to an academic audience and provides an excellent overview through which scholars can gain a broad understanding of European colonialism and the new imperial history ... [An] impressive accomplishment … This book provides an accessible and extensive panorama of European colonialism and its long-term ramifications.