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Book SynopsisWritten by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese. The companion is divided into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main eras of modern imperialism. The first was that dominated by the settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more by force - making new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way, most especially in the nineteenth century, to a period of busy and rapid expansion which was less likely to promote new settlement, and in which colonists more frequently saw their sojourn in colonial lands as temporary and related to the business mostly of governance and trade. Lastly, in the twenti
Trade Review'...insightful...Recommended.' Choice ’The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories is a fluidly written, comprehensive, and authoritative approach to the current state of the knowledge and conceptions of empire that will be an essential tool for students and researchers alike.’ Michael Charney, SOAS, University of London, UK ’Neither Eurocentric nor restricted to a single privileged historiographical approach, the essays that Levine and Marriot have brought together systematically introduce readers to the breadth - chronological, geographic, and thematic - of modern imperial studies.’ Andrew Zimmerman, The George Washington University, USA '... an excellent collection of essays which historians of empire (whether senior or junior) will find both useful and stimulating. They have recruited an outstanding team of contributors ... Of particular value is the huge range of references cited, introducing nonspecialists to the latest work in the wide range of sub-fields which imperial history now supports. The book is handsomely produced and surprisingly easy to use. The chapters are briskly and lucidly written and, unlike many volumes of more than six hundred pages, it will hold the attention of even a moderately industrious reader from cover to cover.' English Historical Review
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction, Philippa Levine and John Marriott; Part I Times: Age of exploration, c.1500-1650, Kenneth J. Andrien; Age of settlement and colonisation, Michael Adas and Hugh Glenn Cagle; Age of imperial crisis, Philippa Levine. Part II Spaces: Late Imperial China (c.1500-1911) , Peter C. Perdue; Ottoman empire, Virginia H. Aksan; Mughal empire, Michael H. Fisher; European empires, Philippa Levine; Russian empire, 1552-1917, Willard Sunderland; North American empire, Mary A. Renda; Japanese empire, Ryuta Itagaki, Satoshi Mizutani and Hideaki Tobe. Part III Themes: Governance, Jon E. Wilson; Finance, Søren Mentz; Consumption, Erika Rappaport; Soldiery, Richard Smith; Circulation and migration, Michael Mann; Crime, Lauren Benton; Slavery, Eve M. Troutt Powell; Race, Damon Salesa; Gender, Elsbeth Locher-Scholten; Ideology, Ben Silverstein and Patrick Wolfe; Religion, Derek R. Peterson; Culture, Lara Kriegel; Art, Natasha Eaton; Science, medicine and technology, Sujit Sivasundaram; Environment, Richard Grove and Vinita Damodaran; Modernity, John Marriott; Aftermath, Christopher J. Lee; Bibliography; Index.
