Colonialism
a theoretical overview
by Jürgen Osterhammel and Jurgen Osterhammel
This highly acclaimed book represents a new approach to colonialism. Concise but sweeping, it encompasses the processes of colonization and decolonization from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
Virtually all other authors 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.
Osterhammel emphasizes that the Europeans were normally not considered dangerous invaders by local population until they threatened the traditional cultures with missionaries, European schools, and bureaucracy.
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Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview
April 2005, Markus Wiener Publishers
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Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview
May 2005, Markus Wiener Publishers
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in English
- 2Rev Ed edition
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Colonialism: a theoretical overview
2004, Markus Wiener Publishers
in English
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Colonialism: a theoretical overview
1997, M. Wiener, Ian Randle Publishers
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-141) and index.
Translation of: Kolonialismus.
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