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The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I: Social Organization
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This collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in multiple ways relating to work, the environment, law, health and religion. Yet empire-builders were never working with a blank slate: colonial rule involved not just coercion but also forms of cooperation with elements of local society, while the schemes of the colonisers often led to unexpected outcomes. Covering not only western European nations but also the Ottomans, Russians and Japanese, whose empires are less frequently addressed in collections, this volume provides insight into a crucial aspect of modern world history.
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I: Social Organization
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Owen White specializes in the history of modern France and the French colonial empire, with particular research interests in West Africa and Algeria. He grew up in the U.K., receiving his B.A. from the University of Exeter and his doctorate from the University of Oxford.
The author of a book about the mixed-race population of French West Africa and articles on a variety of aspects of French colonialism, he has also published two edited volumes: one (with J. P. Daughton) on French missionaries, the other on social organization in modern empires.
He recently completed a history of Algerian wine, and is now researching resistance to taxation in colonial empires.
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