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Colonies and Colonialism
Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonisation from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1987. One of the few good studies of medieval and early colonization.
Fieldhouse, David. The Colonial Empires. Dell, 1971. Authoritative European view of methods of colonization.
Hoepli, Nancy L., ed. Aftermath of Colonialism. New York: Wilson, 1973. Articles on problems and politics of newly independent nations, 1945 to 1965.
Maddox, Gregory, ed. The Colonial Epoch in Africa. New York; London: Garland, 1993. Second volume in a larger series on colonialism and nationalism in Africa.
Morris, James (Jan). Heaven's Command: an Imperial Progress. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1973, 1980. Popular subjective history of the rise and fall of the British Empire also includes Pax Britannica: the Climax of an Empire (1968, 1980) and Farewell the Trumpets: an Imperial Retreat (1978, 1980).
Scammell, G. V. The first imperial age: European overseas expansion, c. 1400-1715. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Excellent concise history of colonialism in the great age of voyages of discovery.
Twaddle, Michael, ed. Imperialism, the State and the Third World. London: British Academic Press, 1992. Scholarly study with bibliography of 20th-century colonialism.

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