In the tradition of The Black Book of Communism, comes a new revelation: The Black Book of Colonialism. It's originator is Marc Ferro, one of France's top historians. He has researched and already published extensively on the subject of Colonialism and his aim with The Black Book of Colonialism is to give an overall view for the first time and homage to those who were colonialised. He has therefore asked specialists from around the world to explore and summarize the history of colonialism.It all started with Columbus and the Gold rush. Between 1495 and 1525 two million Indians were killed in the Caribbean alone and many more over the centuries across North America bringing about enormous social and economic change around the world. Consequences we are still concerned with and which form part of world politics today.An insight on the 2 million Indians who disappeared, on the postulate of White superiority, on the Iberian expansion... At last a way to understand how colonisation and slavery modified in depth the social structures in Africa taking away men and developing matriarchy.The book is divided into four parts: an authoritative introduction by Marc Ferro on the terminology of colonialism and colonisation is followed by three chapters on the colonization that ended with the extermination. The middle section is devoted to the countries of conquest and domination, mainly the Spanish colonization, the English in India, the Dutch in Indonesia, the French in North Africa, the colonization of Indochina, Central Africa, Russia and the Caucasus and the question of Apartheid. The third section is devoted to the discussion pro or anticolonialism, the role and fate of women and the representation of colonialism in film and art. The fourth and last section is on colonialism of countries outside Europe as exercised by the Arabs and the Japanese.The result is an impressive compilation of 28 texts on the subject. Perfectly timed to mark an important contribution to th