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| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| Part I | Western Europe and the World | |
| 1. | Ceuta, Bojador, and Beyond: Europeans on the Move | 3 |
| 2. | Why Did the Overseas Empires Rise, Persist, and Fall? | 18 |
| Part II | Phases of Imperial Expansion and Contraction | |
| 3. | Phase 1: Expansion, 1415-1773 | 45 |
| 4. | Phase 2: Contraction, 1775-1824 | 64 |
| 5. | Phase 3: Expansion, 1824-1912 | 81 |
| 6. | Phase 4: Unstable Equilibrium, 1914-39 | 104 |
| 7. | Phase 5: Contraction, 1940-80 | 133 |
| Part III | Accounting for Imperial Expansion | |
| 8. | Western Europe as a Region: Shared Features | 175 |
| 9. | Western Europe as a System of Competing States | 206 |
| 10. | The Institutional Basis for the Triple Assault | 225 |
| 11. | Non-European Initiatives and Perceptions | 254 |
| Part IV | Consolidating Power | |
| 12. | Sectoral Institutions and Techniques of Control | 277 |
| 13. | Sources of Colonial Weakness | 300 |
| Part V | Accounting for Imperial Contraction | |
| 14. | Colonialism as a Self-Defeating Enterprise | 325 |
| 15. | The International Dimension: War as the Catalyst for Independence | 345 |
| Part VI | Consequences of European Overseas Rule | |
| 16. | Legacies | 363 |
| 17. | The Moral Evaluation of Colonialism | 387 |
| Appendix | Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of the Overseas Empires | 409 |
| Notes | 417 | |
| Bibliography | 463 | |
| Index | 505 |
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Brian Mahoney
reviewed The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980 on October 03, 2008
The Dynamics of Global Dominance
An extraordinarily detailed account of European hegemony looking at the consequences of sectoral influences as opposed to the more Eurocentric explanations that are often discussed.
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