Peoples and empires (Modern Library pbk. ed.)

Written by one of the worlds foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empiresthe Roman, the Spanish, the French, the Britishand their colonies, and the back-and-forth between us and them, culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, the center and the periphery.

Its the history of how conquerors justified conquest, and how colonists and the colonized changed each other beyond all recognition.From the Trade Paperback edition.