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It is impossible in a single chapter to pull together the immense diversities of the modern empires, or to analyse all the myths which surround them. Yet an attempt must be made to recapitulate those main features which distinguished the modern empires from the old; to emphasize contrasts and similarities between different modern empires; and to dissect the dominant myth of modern imperialism — the belief that tropical empires were ‘exploited’ to provide wealth for their masters.
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Fieldhouse, D.K. (1965). Myths and Realities of the Modern Colonial Empires. In: The Colonial Empires. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06338-3_16
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