Part one
Conquest
The pattern of empire
Technology and power
The politics of imperialism
Part two
Culture change and imperial rule
Culture change in plural societies: South Africa and Central Asia
Culture change in Mexico
Administrative choices and their consequences: examples from Bengal, Central Asia, Java, and Malaya
Part three
Conversion
Christian mission in East Africa
Varieties of defensive modernization
Meiji Japan: Revolutionary modernization
Ottoman reactions to the West
Part four
Independence and the liquidation of empires
Non-European resistance and the European withdrawal
Personal and utopian resources
The search for viable independence: Indonesia
Paths to viable independence: Ghana.