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  2. Colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    Before the expansion of early modern European powers, other empires had conquered and colonized territories, such as the Roman Empire in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. Modern colonial empires first emerged with a race of exploration between the then most advanced European maritime powers, Portugal and Spain, during the 15th century. [2]

  3. Analysis of European colonialism and colonization - Wikipedia

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    European Colonial Rule, 1880–1940: The Impact of the West on India, Southeast Asia, and Africa (1982) 581pp; Betts, Raymond F. The False Dawn: European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (1975) Betts, Raymond F. Uncertain Dimensions: Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century (1985) Black, Jeremy.

  4. List of former European colonies - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of former European colonies. The European countries which had the most colonies throughout history were: ... Swedish colonial empire; References

  5. History of colonialism - Wikipedia

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    The New Map of Africa (1900–1916): A History of European Colonial Expansion and Colonial Diplomacy (1916) online free; Hopkins, Anthony G., and Peter J. Cain. British Imperialism: 1688–2015 (Routledge, 2016). Mackenzie, John, ed. The Encyclopedia of Empire (4 vol 2016) Maltby, William. The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire (2008).

  6. European colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The first French colonial empire stretched to over 10,000,000 km 2 (3,900,000 sq mi) at its peak in 1710, which was the second largest colonial empire in the world, after the Spanish Empire. [33] [34] In the French colonial regions, the focus of the economy was on sugar plantations in the French West Indies.

  7. French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    The European Colonial Empires: 1815–1919 (Routledge, 2015). White, Owen, and James Patrick Daughton, eds. In God's Empire: French Missionaries in the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2012). online; Winnacker, R. A. (1938). "Elections in Algeria and the French Colonies under the Third Republic."

  8. Colonialism - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, European colonial empires sometimes attempted to channel, restrict and impede trade involving their colonies, funneling activity through the metropole and taxing accordingly. Despite the general trend of economic expansion, the economic performance of former European colonies varies significantly.

  9. Timeline of European imperialism - Wikipedia

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    European International Relations, 1648–1815 (2002) excerpt and text search; Burbank, Jane, and Frederick Cooper. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2011), Very wide-ranging coverage from Rome to the 1980s; 511pp; Dodge, Ernest S. Islands and Empires: Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia (1976) Furber, Holden.