Table of Contents

1: Who's an Imperialist?
2: Ancient Empire
3: Empire by Land
4: Empire by Sea
5: Death of the Seaborne Empires
6: Death of the Land Empires
7: Afterlives and Rebirths of Empire
8: Studying Empires: Prejudice and Progress, Cash and Culture

About the Author

Stephen Howe is Tutor in Politics at Ruskin College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books and articles, and regularly contributes to the New Statesman and Independent.

Reviews

`excellent. He has a wonderful grasp of the issues ... It is essential that such a book puts the modern history of imperialism into perspective, and he does this very well.'
Megan Vaughan, Oxford University