This new seminar study provides an introduction to the intricate and far-reaching relationship between European attitudes toward racial difference and European imperial expansion. By concentrating on the issue of race this book takes a very different approach to political and economic studies of imperialism. It transcends the current tendency to separate Europe's response to non-Europeans, and vice-versa, into distinct fields of study.

This text is suitable for undergraduate courses in imperial history.

Preface
List of abbreviations
Chronology
Maps

Part One: Introduction

1. Background and Context

Part Two: Analysis

1. The Early Modern Period

2. The Rise of the Modern Empires, 1700-1820

3. Settlement and Consolidation, 1820-1880

4. The Age of Scientific Racism, 1880-1950

Part Three: Assessment
5. Conclusions

Part Four: Documents