Colonialism: A Global History

Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterised by displacement and domination. It reveals the ways in which this relationship has been constitutive of global modernity.

The volume focuses on colonialism’s dynamism, adaptability, and resilience, appraising a number of successive global colonial ‘waves' that affected different locales at different periods, each characterised by a particular method of exploiting colonised populations and territorie...