Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism and Feminism in India (2018); Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (2002); Colonialism–Postcolonialism (1998, 2005, 2015); Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (1989, 1992), and numerous articles on early modern studies, race, colonial histories, and feminism.

Each volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

• General Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)Introduction, Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 1. War, Thomas James Dandelet (University of California Berkeley, USA)2. Trade, Dan Vitkus (University of California San Diego, USA)3. Natural Worlds, Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex, UK)4. Labor, Michael Guasco (Davidson College, USA)5. Mobility, Jonathan Gil Harris (Ashoka University, India)6. Sexuality, Valerie Traub (University of Michigan, USA)7. Resistance, Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech, USA)8. Race, Jonathan Burton (Whittier College, USA)NotesFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex

Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism and Feminism in India (2018); Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (2002); Colonialism–Postcolonialism (1998, 2005, 2015); Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (1989, 1992), and numerous articles on early modern studies, race, colonial histories, and feminism.

Each volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

• General Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)Introduction, Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 1. War, Thomas James Dandelet (University of California Berkeley, USA)2. Trade, Dan Vitkus (University of California San Diego, USA)3. Natural Worlds, Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex, UK)4. Labor, Michael Guasco (Davidson College, USA)5. Mobility, Jonathan Gil Harris (Ashoka University, India)6. Sexuality, Valerie Traub (University of Michigan, USA)7. Resistance, Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech, USA)8. Race, Jonathan Burton (Whittier College, USA)NotesFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex