New imperialism: Imperialism / J.A. Hobson; Color line belts the world / W.E.B. DuBois; Disease of civilization / M.K. Gandhi; Capitalism depends on the non-capitalist world / R. Luxemburg; Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism / V.I. Lenin; Sociology of imperialisms / J.A. Schumpeter; Struggle lies in the colonies / H.C. Minh -- Imperial mission: White man's burden / R. Kipling; French Republican civilizing mission / A.L. Conklin; Machine as civilizer / M. Adas; Christianity, civilization, and commerce / A. Hastings; Medicine and the colonization of the body in India / D. Arnold; Colonialism, cleanliness, and civilization in colonial Rhodesia / T. Burke -- Europe in the empire: An imperial man in Australasia and the West Indies / C. Hall; Dutch women in the East Indies / F. Gouda; Residential segregation and colonial architecture in Morocco / G. Wright; Gender, race, and class boundaries in Southeast Asia / A.L. Stoler; Miscegenation and identity in French West Africa / O. White -- Empire in Europe: Displaying the Orient / Z. Celik; Advertising the empire / A. McClintock; [Cont. in Annot.]
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[TofC cont.] Indian travellers in Victorian Britain / A. Burton; Colonial workers in France during the Great War / T. Stovall; An Afro-German family / D. Reiprich and E. Ngambi ul Kuo -- Anticolonial resistance: Peasant weapons of the weak / J.C. Scott; Wage labor and anticolonial resistance in Colonial Kenya / F. Cooper; Saint or rebel, resistance in French North Africa / J. Clancy-Smith; Imagined community in anticolonial nationalism / B. Anderson; Nation and the home / P. Chatterjee. This book consists principally of thematically organized selections from ... recent historical work on French, British, and Dutch imperialism.... The volume [begins] with a section devoted to several of the classic interpretations and criticisms of empire so that students might better judge for themselves how recent scholarship has changed. The introduction provides a brief overview of a century of historical writing on the subject to orient the reader at the outset. -Pref.
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