COLONIALISM by Jurgen Osterhammel, Shelley Laura Frisch (Trans), Robert Tignor ( 9781558763395 )

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Title:

COLONIALISM

By:

Jurgen Osterhammel, Shelley Laura Frisch (Trans), Robert Tignor

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£71.50
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ISBN 10:

1558763392

ISBN 13:

9781558763395

Publisher:

MARKUS WIENER PUBLISHING INC

Pub. date:

1 October, 2004

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

Pages:

200

Translated from:

German

Description:

This study encompasses the process of colonization and decolonization from the early modern period to the twentieth century. It shows that the Europeans were normally not considered dangerous invaders by local populations until they threatened the traditional cultures with missionaries, European schools, and bureaucracy.

Synopsis:

"Osterhammel's book represents a new approach to the subject. The concise but sweeping study encompasses the process of colonization and decolonization from the early modern period to the twentieth century. "Virtually all other studies to date have looked at strategies of colonial conquest, exploitation, and rule from the imperial point of view. Osterhammel shows that the colonial situation developed in ways that duplicated neither the metropolis nor the pre-colonial society, but instead blended these and added a new direction characteristic only of colonial realms. He emphasizes that the Europeans were normally not considered dangerous invaders by local populations until they threatened the traditional cultures with missionaries, European schools, and bureaucracy.

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Imprint:

Markus Wiener Publishing Inc

Returns:

Returnable

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