This book explores shifting forms of continental colonialism in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, from the early modern period to the present. It offers an interdisciplinary approach bringing together historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to contribute to a critical historical anthropology of colonialism. Though focused on the modern era, the volume illustrates that the colonial paradigm is a framework of theories and concepts that can be applied globally and deeply into the past. The chapters engage with a wide range of topics and disciplinary approaches from the theoretical to the empirical, deepening our understanding of under-researched areas of colonial studies and providing a cutting edge contribution to the study of continental and internal colonialism for all those interested in the global impact of colonialism on continents.

Autorentext

Dittmar Schorkowitz is a research group leader for Historical Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Assistant Professor at the Martin Luther University, Germany and editor of a recently published volume on ethnic diversity in Qing China (Managing Frontiers in Qing China: The Lifanyuan and Libu Revisited, 2017). John R. Chávez is a Professor of History at Southern Methodist University, USA with a specialization in ethnic Mexicans in the borderlands of the United States. His book Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World, 1400-2000 (2009) deals with the broader colonial paradigm.
Ingo W. Schröder is an adjunct professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Marburg, Germany. He has studied the colonial impact on American Indian groups of the U.S. Southwest since 1990.

Inhalt
Empires, Modern States, and Colonialism(s): A Preface.- The Shifting Forms of Continental Colonialism: An Introduction.- **Part I ****Colonialism as Discourse in Social Anthropology and History.- **Overseas, Continental, and Internal Colonialism: Responses from Latin American Anthropologies.- Native Americans and Colonialism in the Longue Durée: Dancing with Incorporation.- Was Russia a Colonial Empire?.- **Part II ****The Empire's Colonialism 'at home'.- **Handmaidens of Continental Colonialism? The Ambiguities of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society's Central Asian Expeditions.- Manchu-Han Relations in Qing China: Reconsidering the Concept of Continental Colonialism in Chinese History.- The Slovak 'Gypsy Fringe' as a Semi-Colonial Entity.- Colonialism Within and Without: The Old Oyo Empire in West Africa.- **Part III ****Co-opted Elites, Local Brokers, and Go-betweens in Nation-Building.- **India: The Context of Its Current Internal Colonialism.- Patterns of Domination and State Expansion in Early Colonial and Revolutionary Mexico.- **Part IV ****Post-colonial Dependencies: Internal Legacies of External Colonialism.- **Greater Mexico: Homeland, Colonialism, and Genetics.- The Second Conquest: Continental and Internal Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America.- Legacies of Colonial Agency in Africa: Reflections of an 'Ethnicized' Space in Kenya and Rwanda.- Living under the Soviet Shadow: Postcolonial critique of Soviet politics in Mongolia.- **Part V ****Modes of Resistance and Decolonization.- **The Treaty Relationship and Settler Colonialism in Canada.- The Imperial Emancipations: Ending Non-Russian Serfdoms in Nineteenth-Century Russia.- From the Birth of Nations to the European Union: Colonial and Decolonial Developments in the Baltic Region.