Introduction
Age of exploration / Kenneth J. Andrien
Age of settlement and colonisation / Michael Adas and Hugh Glenn Cagle
Age of imperial crisis / Philippa Levine
Chinese empire / Peter C. Perdue
Ottoman empire / Virginia H. Aksan
Mughal empire / Michael H. Fisher
European empires / Philippa Levine
Russian empire / Willard Sunderland
North American empire / Mary A. Renda
Japanese empire / Ryta Itagaki, Satoshi Mizutani and Hideaki Tobe
Governance / Jon E Wilson
Finance / Søren Mentz
Consumption / Erika Rappaport
Soldiery / Richard Smith
Circulation and migration / Michael Mann
Crime / Lauren Benton
Slavery / Eve M. Troutt Powell
Race / Damon Salesa
Gender / Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
Ideology / Ben Silverstein and Patrick Wolfe
Religion / Derek R. Peterson
Culture / Lara Kriegel
Art / Natasha Eaton
Science, medicine and technology / Sujit Sivasundaram
Environment / Richard Grove and Vinita Damodaran
Modernity / John Marriott
Aftermath / Christopher Lee.
The Ashgate research companion to modern imperial histories. ISBN 9780754664154. Published by Ashgate in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.