{"title":"Review: <i>Colonialism: A Global History</i>, by Lorenzo Veracini","authors":"Jennifer Tappan","doi":"10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.685","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Colonialism: A Global History, by Lorenzo Veracini Colonialism: A Global History. By Lorenzo Veracini. (Oxfordshire, England, Routledge Press, 2022. 228 pp.) Jennifer Tappan Jennifer Tappan Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (4): 685–686. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.685 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jennifer Tappan; Review: Colonialism: A Global History, by Lorenzo Veracini. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 2023; 92 (4): 685–686. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.685 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search Lorenzo Veracini’s Colonialism: A Global History offers a sweeping analysis of colonialism over the past six centuries. The book opens by defining colonialism as “an unequal relationship predicated on displacement” (p. 1). Through nine concise chapters, an introduction, and a conclusion, Veracini’s metaphor of a wave serves to document and distinguish between forms of colonialism. Europe’s initial ventures in the Americas and the Indian Ocean represent the first wave and the emergence of a global colonialism dependent, Veracini argues, on existing systems of subjugation. In the second wave of colonialism Europeans established plantation economies and began to profit, not simply from tribute and plunder, but from the exploitation of enslaved labor. An entire chapter is devoted to the Trans-Atlantic Slave System and the specific colonial context of chattel slavery resulting in wealth transfers that buttressed Europe’s industrial revolution and devastated areas of the African continent. The third chapter explores the... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":45312,"journal":{"name":"PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.685","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Colonialism: A Global History, by Lorenzo Veracini Colonialism: A Global History. By Lorenzo Veracini. (Oxfordshire, England, Routledge Press, 2022. 228 pp.) Jennifer Tappan Jennifer Tappan Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (4): 685–686. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.685 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jennifer Tappan; Review: Colonialism: A Global History, by Lorenzo Veracini. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 2023; 92 (4): 685–686. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.685 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search Lorenzo Veracini’s Colonialism: A Global History offers a sweeping analysis of colonialism over the past six centuries. The book opens by defining colonialism as “an unequal relationship predicated on displacement” (p. 1). Through nine concise chapters, an introduction, and a conclusion, Veracini’s metaphor of a wave serves to document and distinguish between forms of colonialism. Europe’s initial ventures in the Americas and the Indian Ocean represent the first wave and the emergence of a global colonialism dependent, Veracini argues, on existing systems of subjugation. In the second wave of colonialism Europeans established plantation economies and began to profit, not simply from tribute and plunder, but from the exploitation of enslaved labor. An entire chapter is devoted to the Trans-Atlantic Slave System and the specific colonial context of chattel slavery resulting in wealth transfers that buttressed Europe’s industrial revolution and devastated areas of the African continent. The third chapter explores the... You do not currently have access to this content.
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For over 70 years, the Pacific Historical Review has accurately and adeptly covered the history of American expansion to the Pacific and beyond, as well as the post-frontier developments of the 20th-century American West. Recent articles have discussed: •Japanese American Internment •The Establishment of Zion and Bryce National Parks in Utah •Mexican Americans, Testing, and School Policy 1920-1940 •Irish Immigrant Settlements in Nineteenth-Century California and Australia •American Imperialism in Oceania •Native American Labor in the Early Twentieth Century •U.S.-Philippines Relations •Pacific Railroad and Westward Expansion before 1945