Introduction
PART I: TOOLS OF EMPIRE AND HUMAN COST OF THE COLONIAL CONQUESTS
Chapter 1. Mortality and Numbers of the First Europeans in the Tropics
- Overseas Necropolises
- White Man’s Solitude in the Tropics
Chapter 2. Malaria, Quinine and Colonial Conquests
- The American Phase: The ‘Fever Tree’
- The Asian Phase: The Greatness and Misery of the Plantation System
- The African Phase: Quinine and Colonial Conquests
Chapter 3. The Use of Indigenous Troops in Colonial Conquests
- Asia and Africa Conquered by… Themselves
- An Attempt at Quantification
- On Good Human Resources Management
- Empires at Bargain Prices
Chapter 4. European Losses During the Conquests
- Typology and Assessment of Losses
- Weapons Technologies and European Losses
- Transportation, Communications and the Cost of Empire
Chapter 5. Indigenous Losses During the Conquests
- Military Losses
- Civilian Losses
- Balance Sheet and Perspective
PART II: COLONIAL AREAS AND POPULATIONS A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EMPIRES
Chapter 6. Measuring the Land and Counting Heads
- The Limitations of the Key Criteria
- Comparative Sizes of the Colonial Empires
- Counting Heads
- Measuring the Land
Chapter 7. The Rate and Scale of Colonisation
- Periodicity
- Major Trends
- Regional Differences
- List of the Colonial Powers
Chapter 8. Comparative Portraits of the Empires I: 1760–1830
- The Spanish and Portuguese Colonies: The First Models
- The Metamorphosis of the English Domain
- The French Domain: A Fragile Structure
- The Dutch Domain: From the Trading Empire to the Java War
Chapter 9. Comparative Portraits of the Empires II: 1830–1880
- British Colonisation: Two Tiers
- ‘New’ and ‘Old’ French Colonies
- Java and the Cultivation System
Chapter 10. Comparative Portraits of the Empires III: 1880–1938
- The Old Empire Builders: Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal
- The New Colonisers of Africa: Belgium, Germany, Italy
- The Non-European Colonisers: Japan and the United States
Chapter 11. The Decolonisation Period
- Definition
- The Causes of Decolonisation
- Decolonisation Underway
- After Decolonisation
Conclusion
Appendixes
Sources
Bibliography
Index of Places
Index of Names
