Description: Colonialism and its legacies have emerged as one of the most important research topics in anthropology. Indeed, we now understand that colonialism gave rise to and shaped the discipline. However, the understanding of colonization in anthropology, history, and other fields derives largely from studies of European expansion.
Review Quotes: "[This book is] explicitly comparative on a global scale. It offers new conceptualizations and new thinking about colonization, as distinguished from colonialism. Its strength lies in the articulation of an extraordinary and global range of colonial encounters with a set of common question..." -- Kathleen Deagan