Origins and Modes
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Origins and Modes
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.057

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Abstract

In 1800, Europeans controlled about 35 percent of the world’s total landmass. On the eve of World War I, Europeans controlled around 85 percent of the earth. What happened? How was it possible that European states could come to dominate so much of the world so quickly? To understand the rapid and unprecedented acquisition of colonial control over remote world regions in the mid-nineteenth century, we must first consider the history of European imperialism more broadly.

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