For courses in Imperial history. The European Empires is about the conquest, occupation, organization and exploitation of European colonies in the 19th century. It has an extremely broad coverage and includes all of the major European powers, including the Netherlands, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Russia. Taking a comparative approach, the text looks at the successes and failures of each administration.
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'Henk Wesseling has spent years leading one of the world's best historical research teams. But it is his personal touch that makes this work special. He combines all the qualities an historian needs to write a perfect book: a flawless sense of evidence, unfailing clarity of exposition, unerring judgement, free-wheeling breadth of culture, a talent for balancing narrative with analysis, and an enviable ability to cram comprehensive coverage into manageable space, without sacrifice of detail.
He also has an eye for vivid material, which can entertain as well as instruct and a subtle, endlessly enjoyable sense of humour enlivens his pages. No book on this subject unites so much material, on so many regions and empires, with greater dispassion, superior judgement, or equal command of the facts.'
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Notre Dame, USA
He also has an eye for vivid material, which can entertain as well as instruct and a subtle, endlessly enjoyable sense of humour enlivens his pages. No book on this subject unites so much material, on so many regions and empires, with greater dispassion, superior judgement, or equal command of the facts.'
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Notre Dame, USA