Download or read book Contesting Empires written by J. Hart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive archival research, this book looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire and the question of slavery. Hart's discussion on slavery has even larger scope ranging from early Arab, African and Portuguese practices in Africa and beyond to the legal abolition of slavery in the British empire, the United States and elsewhere in the Nineteenth-century.