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By R. Roque,K. Wagner

providing a collection of wealthy case-studies which show novel and effective ways to the research of colonial wisdom, this quantity covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, the US and the Pacific, from the 16th to the 20 th century.

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