This is an extremely wide-ranging and interdisciplinary survey of colonization from its origins to the post-colonial world. Original and lively, it offers the student a wide focus featuring Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Japan and the USSR, an interpretation drawn from cultural and social history, with sections on myth, literature, film and philosophy, constant reference to implications for the present world situation, a comprehensive synthesis of the background, context and expansion of colonization, a comparative thematic discussion of the impact of imperialism, and an extensive coverage and analysis of decolonization. A very simply, key publication for the study of colonization...