Kris Manjapra is Associate Professor of History and founding Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is the author of M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (2009) and Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire (2014), and editor of Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas (with Sugata Bose, 2010).

'If I had to choose one book to explain the development of the modern world, this would be it. Kris Manjapra's devastating treatise goes to the heart of the matter, proving that colonialism – with its racist logics and drive for war and wealth – and the struggles against it, are what makes the world go round. A genuine tour de force.' Robin D. G. Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles

• Introduction; Part I. Interlocking colonial histories: 1. War; 2. Settlement; 3. Plantation; 4. Port; Part II. Elementary aspects of colonial power: 5. Science; 6. School; 7. Debt; 8. Space; 9. Body; Epilogue.

Kris Manjapra is Associate Professor of History and founding Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is the author of M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (2009) and Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire (2014), and editor of Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas (with Sugata Bose, 2010).

'If I had to choose one book to explain the development of the modern world, this would be it. Kris Manjapra's devastating treatise goes to the heart of the matter, proving that colonialism – with its racist logics and drive for war and wealth – and the struggles against it, are what makes the world go round. A genuine tour de force.' Robin D. G. Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles

• Introduction; Part I. Interlocking colonial histories: 1. War; 2. Settlement; 3. Plantation; 4. Port; Part II. Elementary aspects of colonial power: 5. Science; 6. School; 7. Debt; 8. Space; 9. Body; Epilogue.

Kris Manjapra is Associate Professor of History and founding Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is the author of M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (2009) and Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire (2014), and editor of Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas (with Sugata Bose, 2010).

'If I had to choose one book to explain the development of the modern world, this would be it. Kris Manjapra's devastating treatise goes to the heart of the matter, proving that colonialism – with its racist logics and drive for war and wealth – and the struggles against it, are what makes the world go round. A genuine tour de force.' Robin D. G. Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles

• Introduction; Part I. Interlocking colonial histories: 1. War; 2. Settlement; 3. Plantation; 4. Port; Part II. Elementary aspects of colonial power: 5. Science; 6. School; 7. Debt; 8. Space; 9. Body; Epilogue.