Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration,
Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the
Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British--and their colonies, and the
back-and-forth between "us" and "them," culture and nature, civilization
and barbarism, the center and the periphery. It's the history of how
conquerors justified conquest, and how colonists and the colonized
changed each other beyond all recognition.