Download or read book Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960 written by Victor Gordon Kiernan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the post-Napoleonic era, this volume presents all the major episodes of an often dramatic story in which the military agents of European imperialism met the peoples of the rest of the world in armed conflict.