"Empires and Colonies in the Modern World takes on world history 1450-present through the sweeping events and human experiences of empires, imperialism, and col

Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and h

"Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."

This text helps students understand world history by focusing on an issue that has profoundly shaped the modern world order: the establishment and collapse of g

The nineteenth century was Europe's colonial century. At the beginning of the period, the only colonial empire that existed was the British Empire. By the end o