Based on extensive archival research, Contesting Empires looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France, and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire, and the question of slavery. Hart's discussion of slavery also ranges from early Arab, African, and Portuguese practices in Africa and beyond, to the legal abolition of slavery in the British empire, the United States, and elsewhere in the nineteenth century.
- ISBN10 6611364919
- ISBN13 9786611364915
- Publish Date 16 February 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Format eBook
- Language English