Böcker i Comparative Studies in Overseas History-serien

TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction.

I: Introduction.- I. Expansion and Reaction: Some Reflections on a Symposium and a Theme.- II: Prologue.- 2. The Expansion of Europe and the ¿Longue Dur?e¿.- III: Expansion and Reaction in Asia.- 3. Was there an Indian Reaction? Western Expansion in Indian Perspective.- 4. ¿Western Expansion and Chinese Reaction¿ ¿ A Theme Reconsidered.- 5. Dutch ¿Expansion¿ and Indonesian Reactions: Some Dilemmas of Modern Colonial Rule (1900¿1942).- IV: Expansion and Reaction in Africa.- 6. French Action and Indigenous Reactions in the Maghrib, 1880¿1914.- 7. French Expansion and Local Reactions in Black Africa in the Time of Imperialism (1880¿1914).- 8. European Imperialism and Indigenous Reactions in British West Africa, 1880¿1914.- V: Epilogue.- 9. European Expansion and the Civilization of Modernity.- Notes on the contributors.

The exclusion of the discrimination of women from the concept of racism should not be thought as entailing that racist and sexist ideas do not have much in common, since both derive from essentially biological determinism, and indeed 2 racist societies have historically almost invariably been strongly sexist.

TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction.