Possessing the world: taking the measurements of colonisation from the eighteenth to the twentieth century
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Contents
List of Tables vii
Introduction 1
Parti
Tools of Empire and the Human Cost of Colonial Conquests
1. Mortality and Numbers of the First Europeans in the Tropics 11
1.1 Overseas Necropolises 11
1.2 White Man's Solitude in the Tropics 18
2. Malaria, Quinine and Colonial Conquests 25
2.1 The American Phase: The 'Fever Tree' 26
2.2 The Asian Phase: The Greatness and Misery of the
Plantation System 28
2.3 The African Phase: Quinine and Colonial Conquests 31
3. The Use of Indigenous Troops in Colonial Conquests 39
3.1 Asia and Africa Conquered by . Themselves 39
3.2 An Attempt at Quantification 46
3.3 On Good Human Resources Management 48
3.4 Empires at Bargain Prices 51
4. European Losses During the Conquests 58
4.1 Typology and Assessment of Losses 59
4.2 Weapons Technologies and European Losses 74
4.3 Transportation, Communications and the Cost of Empire 78
5. Indigenous Losses During the Conquests 85
5.1 Military Losses 85
5.2 Civilian Losses 88
5.3 Balance Sheet and Perspective 93
Part II
Colonial Areas and Populations: A Comparative Study of Empires
6. Measuring the Land and Counting Heads 99
6.1 The Limitations of the Key Criteria 100
6.2 Comparative Sizes of the Colonial Empires 105
6.3 Counting Heads 109
6.4 Measuring the Land 114
vi I Contents
7. The Rate and Scale of Colonisation 119
7.1 Periodicity 119
7.2 Major Trends 122
7.3 Regional Differences 124
7.4 List of the Colonial Powers 130
8. Comparative Portraits of the Empires 1:1760-1830 134
8.1 The Spanish and Portuguese Colonies: The Tirst Models 135
8.2 The Metamorphosis of the English Domain 138
8.3 The French Domain: A Fragile Structure 144
8.4 The Dutch Domain: From the Trading Empire to the
Java War 148
9. Comparative Portraits of the Empires II: 1830-1880 153
9.1 British Colonisation: Two Tiers 153
9.2 'New' and 'Old' French Colonies 157
9.3 Java and the Cultivation System 161
10. Comparative Portraits of the Empires III: 1880-1938 165
10.1 The Old Empire Builders: Great Britain, France,
the Netherlands, Portugal 165
10.2 The New Colonisers of Africa: Belgium, Germany, Italy 175
10.3 The Non-European Colonisers: Japan and the
United States 181
11. The Decolonisation Period 188
11.1 Definition 188
11.2 The Causes of Decolonisation 189
11.3 Decolonisation Underway 194
11A After Decolonisation 200
Conclusion 205
Appendices 209
Sources 229
Bibliography 234
Index of Places 245
Index of Names 251 |
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Contents
List of Tables vii
Introduction 1
Parti
Tools of Empire and the Human Cost of Colonial Conquests
1. Mortality and Numbers of the First Europeans in the Tropics 11
1.1 Overseas Necropolises 11
1.2 White Man's Solitude in the Tropics 18
2. Malaria, Quinine and Colonial Conquests 25
2.1 The American Phase: The 'Fever Tree' 26
2.2 The Asian Phase: The Greatness and Misery of the
Plantation System 28
2.3 The African Phase: Quinine and Colonial Conquests 31
3. The Use of Indigenous Troops in Colonial Conquests 39
3.1 Asia and Africa Conquered by . Themselves 39
3.2 An Attempt at Quantification 46
3.3 On Good Human Resources Management 48
3.4 Empires at Bargain Prices 51
4. European Losses During the Conquests 58
4.1 Typology and Assessment of Losses 59
4.2 Weapons Technologies and European Losses 74
4.3 Transportation, Communications and the Cost of Empire 78
5. Indigenous Losses During the Conquests 85
5.1 Military Losses 85
5.2 Civilian Losses 88
5.3 Balance Sheet and Perspective 93
Part II
Colonial Areas and Populations: A Comparative Study of Empires
6. Measuring the Land and Counting Heads 99
6.1 The Limitations of the Key Criteria 100
6.2 Comparative Sizes of the Colonial Empires 105
6.3 Counting Heads 109
6.4 Measuring the Land 114
vi I Contents
7. The Rate and Scale of Colonisation 119
7.1 Periodicity 119
7.2 Major Trends 122
7.3 Regional Differences 124
7.4 List of the Colonial Powers 130
8. Comparative Portraits of the Empires 1:1760-1830 134
8.1 The Spanish and Portuguese Colonies: The Tirst Models 135
8.2 The Metamorphosis of the English Domain 138
8.3 The French Domain: A Fragile Structure 144
8.4 The Dutch Domain: From the Trading Empire to the
Java War 148
9. Comparative Portraits of the Empires II: 1830-1880 153
9.1 British Colonisation: Two Tiers 153
9.2 'New' and 'Old' French Colonies 157
9.3 Java and the Cultivation System 161
10. Comparative Portraits of the Empires III: 1880-1938 165
10.1 The Old Empire Builders: Great Britain, France,
the Netherlands, Portugal 165
10.2 The New Colonisers of Africa: Belgium, Germany, Italy 175
10.3 The Non-European Colonisers: Japan and the
United States 181
11. The Decolonisation Period 188
11.1 Definition 188
11.2 The Causes of Decolonisation 189
11.3 Decolonisation Underway 194
11A After Decolonisation 200
Conclusion 205
Appendices 209
Sources 229
Bibliography 234
Index of Places 245
Index of Names 251 |
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