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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Writing (and reading) colonial history -- Inventing a glorious imperial past -- From economics and empire to geopolitics -- From the critics of empire to decolonizing colonial history -- Gendering colonial history, post-colonial studies and the 'new' imperial histories -- Decolonizing colonial history - yet again? -- Part I: Chronologies -- Chapter 2: Early modern European colonialism, 1490s-1815 -- Science and expansion -- Religion: Catholics and Protestants -- Commerce and colonialism -- Geopolitical rivalries -- Indigenous peoples and the Europeans in the early modern period -- Slavery: The trade in humans -- Colonial metamorphosis -- Chapter 3: The making of overseas empires in the long nineteenth century, 1815-1914 -- Europe and its colonies in 1815 -- The emancipation of slaves and the introduction of indentured labour -- Nineteenth-century expansion: Why and where? -- The acceleration of colonial expansion in the late 1800s -- Strategies and limits of conquest -- Chapter 4: Colonial rule and misrule, 1914-40 -- The colonies and the First World War -- Changes in the political map -- Transformations: Colonialism in the interwar period -- Colonialism between confidence and crisis -- Anti-colonial nationalism -- Culture and resistance -- Between reform and revolution -- Chapter 5: The unmaking of overseas empires, 1940-75 -- The Second World War in Asia and beyond -- Efforts to restore empires and to gain independence -- The stakes of independence -- Achieving independence: Contexts, ideas and strategies -- Independence in regional perspective: The Middle East -- South and Southeast Asia -- North Africa -- Decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa -- Decolonization in the islands -- The eclipse of empires.

Part II: Themes -- Introduction -- Chapter 6: Land and sea: Colonialism and the environment -- Europeans and the natural world -- Reshaping the land -- Building cities -- Transformative encounters -- Chapter 7: Crossed destinies: The people of empire -- Life stories: Between testimony and political exploitation -- Beyond resistance and collaboration: An official in French service -- Paradoxes of colonialism: Nationalist leaders in British colonial Africa -- Was it a man's world? -- The 'bargains' of cooperation: A view from the margins -- From the particular to the whole -- Chapter 8: Slavery, indentured migration and empire -- Forced migration: From slavery to indentured labour? -- Cultural circulation: South Asian diasporas -- Globalization from the 'Global South': Indians in Africa -- From colonial to global history -- Chapter 9: Settler colonialism: The British Dominions -- From settler outposts to Dominions -- The Indigenous peoples and British conquest -- Creating settler societies in the Dominions -- The Dominions in the empire and the world -- Chapter 10: Colonialism and the body -- The body, clothed and unclothed -- The sexualized body -- The body in sickness and in health -- Medical encounters -- 'The most intimate colony' -- Chapter 11: Colonialism and the mind -- Colonial scholarship -- Institutions of colonial knowledge -- Archaeology and European fascination for 'ruins' -- Colonial knowledge in retrospect -- Chapter 12: Colonialism and the soul -- The missionary position -- Europeans and Asian religions -- A case study: Europe and Buddhism in the colonial age -- Religion and decolonization -- Chapter 13: Representations of colonialism -- Colonialism in European culture -- Views in art and literature -- Europeanized culture in the colonies -- Part III: Cases -- Introduction -- Chapter 14: The Spanish Andes, 1780.

Peru in pre-colonial times -- Between reform and revolution: Spain's colonial system in Latin America -- From rebellion to independence -- The legacies of Tupac Amaru II -- Chapter 15: Mauritius, 1810 -- The Ile de France -- Mauritius under the British -- Slavery and indentured labour in Mauritius -- Islands of empire -- Chapter 16: Cuba, 1812 -- Slavery and politics -- War and revolution in Cuba, 1868-98 -- From US Intervention (1898) to Martí's Unfinished Revolution (1959) -- Chapter 17: India, 1876 -- Isabel Burton's impressions of India, 1876 -- The Delhi Durbar, 1877 -- The southern Indian famine -- Dadabhai Naoroji, 'The Poverty of India' and the Indian National Association -- Chapter 18: Burma and Vietnam, 1883-5 -- The contest for Upper Burma -- War and rebellion in Vietnam -- Colonized Southeast Asia -- Chapter 19: Global Conflict, 1900 -- European and other empires: Between conflict and cooperation -- The War of 1898: 'Remember the Maine! To Hell With Spain!' -- The South African War, 1899-1902 -- China and the Boxer War, 1900-1 -- Colonial, European and world conflicts -- Chapter 20: The South Pacific, 1903 -- The Pacific Islands in the Western imaginary -- The 'scramble' for Oceania -- Colonialism in the Islands -- Resistance and transformation in the 1900s -- Chapter 21: Ceylon, 1907 -- From Taprobane to Ceylon -- Ceylon under the British -- Ceylon in 1907 -- Critical British perspectives -- Chapter 22: German Southwest Africa, 1908 -- The Berlin Africa Conference, 1884-5 -- War and genocide, 1904-8 -- War, violence, genocide: Interpretations and legacies -- Chapter 23: Ethiopia, 1936 -- The Ethiopian Empire -- Italian colonialism -- The Italian War on Ethiopia -- Italian rule and Ethiopian resistance -- Ethiopia and colonialism -- Chapter 24: The Dutch East Indies, 1938 -- Visions of the Indies: Photographs and films.

The Indies in a colonial novel -- Anti-colonial nationalism -- From the 'Island of Love' to an archipelago at war -- Chapter 25: Palestine and the Middle East, 1946 -- Between empires: From Ottoman rule to the British and French mandates -- Of settlers and colonies -- Empire in the shadows of the Second World War -- Disorderly decolonization -- Chapter 26: Algeria, 1962 -- Algérie Française -- The development of Algerian nationalism -- Gendering resistance -- Continuing the war -- Dilemmas of the colonizing and the colonized -- The rapatriés and the memory of the Algerian War -- Chapter 27: The Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1971 -- Portugal's new state: Nation and empire, 1930s-70s -- Colonial and metropolitan tropes of modernization and development -- Gendering war, development and progress -- The other modernizers -- Chapter 28: Western Sahara, 1975 -- Spanish colonialism in Western Sahara -- New faces of colonialism: Mauritania and Morocco in Western Sahara -- Gendered resistance: From Spanish to Moroccan occupation -- Western Sahara: One of Africa's last colonies? -- Chapter 29: Belgium and the Congo, 1897 and 2018 -- King Leopold's Congo Free State -- Debates over the Congo -- The Belgian Congo -- The independent Congo -- Colonialism and Belgium's African museum -- Chapter 30: Epilogue: The legacies of empires -- 'Leftover' colonies? -- The cultural legacies of colonialism -- Neo-colonialism and reactions -- Migration -- Post-colonial Europe -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Chapter 26 -- Chapter 27 -- Chapter 28 -- Chapter 29 -- Chapter 30 -- Further reading -- Index.