and suggestions of some of my reviewers, whom I wish to thank.

Perhaps I ought to add that though this book is complete in
itself, it is also a sort of sequel to a little book entitled
Nationalism and Internationalism, and was originally designed to
be printed along with it: that is the explanation of sundry
footnote references. The two volumes are to be followed by a
third, on National Self-government, and it is my hope that the
complete series may form a useful general survey of the
development of the main political factors in modern history.

In its first form the book had the advantage of being read by my
friend Major W. L. Grant, Professor of Colonial History at Queen's
University Kingston, Ontario. The pressure of the military duties
in which he is engaged has made it impossible for me to ask his
aid in the revision of the book.

R. M. July 1917





CONTENTS


Preface
I. The Meaning and the Motives of Imperialism
II. The Era of Iberian Monopoly
III. The Rivalry of the Dutch, the French, and