I: Introduction.- I. Expansion and Reaction: Some Reflections on a Symposium and a Theme.- II: Prologue.- 2. The Expansion of Europe and the "Longue Dur?e".- III: Expansion and Reaction in Asia.- 3. Was there an Indian Reaction? Western Expansion in Indian Perspective.- 4. "Western Expansion and Chinese Reaction" - A Theme Reconsidered.- 5. Dutch "Expansion" and Indonesian Reactions: Some Dilemmas of Modern Colonial Rule (1900-1942).- IV: Expansion and Reaction in Africa.- 6. French Action and Indigenous Reactions in the Maghrib, 1880-1914.- 7. French Expansion and Local Reactions in Black Africa in the Time of Imperialism (1880-1914).- 8. European Imperialism and Indigenous Reactions in British West Africa, 1880-1914.- V: Epilogue.- 9. European Expansion and the Civilization of Modernity.- Notes on the contributors.
