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This comprehensive and authoritative book is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers. It discusses the surprisingly large number of these territories, mainly small isolated islands with limited resources. Yet these places are not as obscure as might be expected. They may be major tourist destinations, military bases, satellite tracking stations, tax havens or desolate, underpopulated spots that can become international flashpoints, such as the Falklands. The authors find that at a time of escalating nationalism and globalization, these remnants of empire provide insights into the meanings of political, economic, legal and cultural independence, as well as sovereignty and nationhood. This book provides a broad-based and provocative discussion of colonialism and interdependence in the modern world, from a unique perspective.

Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Colonies --- Kolonien --- Kolonies --- Neocolonialism --- Colonies. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization

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Imperialism --- -Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- History --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- -History. --- -History --- Colonialism --- History. --- Sources

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Why were the countries with the most developed institutions of individual freedom also the leaders in establishing the most exploitative system of slavery that the world has ever seen? In seeking to provide new answers to this question, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas examines the development of the English Atlantic slave system between 1650 and 1800. The book outlines a major African role in the evolution of the Atlantic societies before the nineteenth century and argues that the transatlantic slave trade was a result of African strength rather than African weakness. It also addresses changing patterns of group identity to account for the racial basis of slavery in the early modern Atlantic World. Exploring the paradox of the concurrent development of slavery and freedom in the European domains, David Eltis provides a fresh interpretation of this difficult historical problem.

Colonies --- Slave trade --- Slavery --- History. --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization --- Great Britain --- America

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World history --- anno 1800-1999 --- Bibliografieën --- Bibliographies --- Geschiedenis van de nieuwste tijden --- Histoire contemporaine --- World politics --- -Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Bibliography --- Bibliography. --- -Bibliography --- Colonialism

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Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring contact archaeology in the modern era. Archaeology has been exploring the interaction of peoples and cultures from early times, but only in the last few decades have cultural contact and material world been recognized as crucial elements to understanding colonialism and the emergence of modernity. Modern colonialism studies pose questions in need of broader answers. This volume explores these answers in Spanish and Portuguese America, comprising present-day Latin America and formerly Spanish territories now part of the United States. The volume addresses studies of the particular features of Spanish-Portuguese colonialism, as well as the specificities of Iberian colonization, including hybridism, religious novelties, medieval and modern social features, all mixed in a variety of ways unique and so different from other areas, particularly the Anglo-Saxon colonial thrust. Cultural contact studies offer a particularly in-depth picture of the uniqueness of Latin America in terms of its cultural mixture. This volume particularly highlights local histories, revealing novelty, diversity, and creativity in the conformation of the new colonial realities, as well as presenting Latin America as a multicultural arena, with astonishing heterogeneity in thoughts, experiences, practices, and material worlds.

Social Sciences. --- Archaeology. --- Social sciences. --- Sciences sociales --- Archéologie --- History & Archaeology --- Archaeology --- Colonies --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Archeology --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities