Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Maps
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Introduction - Philippa Levine; John Marriott
• Part I: Times
• 2 Age of Exploration, c. 1500-1650 - Kenneth J. Andrien
• 3 Age of Settlement and Colonisation - Michael Adas; Hugh Glenn Cagle
• 4 Age of Imperial Crisis - Philippa Levine
• Part II: Spaces
• 5 Late Imperial China (c. 1500-1911) - Peter C. Perdue
• 6 Ottoman Empire - Virginia H. Aksan
• 7 Mughal Empire - Michael H. Fisher
• 8 European Empires - Philippa Levine
• 9 Russian Empire, 1552-1917 - Willard Sunderland
• 10 North American Empire - Mary A. Renda
• 11 Japanese Empire - Ryuta Itagaki; Satoshi Mizutani; Hideaki Tobe
• Part III: Themes
• 12 Governance - Jon E. Wilson
• 13 Finance - Søren Mentz
• 14 Consumption - Erika Rappaport
• 15 Soldiery - Richard Smith
• 16 Circulation and Migration - Michael Mann
• 17 Crime - Lauren Benton
• 18 Slavery - Eve M. Troutt Powell
• 19 Race - Damon Salesa
• 20 Gender - Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
• 21 Ideology - Ben Silverstein; Patrick Wolfe
• 22 Religion - Derek R. Peterson
• 23 Culture - Lara Kriegel
• 24 Art - Natasha Eaton
• 25 Science, Medicine and Technology - Sujit Sivasundaram
• 26 Environment - Richard Grove; Vinita Damodaran
• 27 Modernity - John Marriott
• 28 Aftermath - Christopher J. Lee
• Bibliography