Possessing the World : Taking the Measurements of Colonisation from the 18th to the 20th Century (European Expansion & Global Interaction) (Library Binding)

Based on a body of information and data, this volume recounts the history of five continents over a long stretch of time and in a comparative approach. It gives a range of views of the construction and collapse of the modern colonial empires of Europe, the United States of America and Japan.