I Ottoman camp in Georgia, 1582, from Nusretname. British Museum, London
II Anon. Dominicans baptize Indians, Castillo de Chapultepec, Mexico. Bridgeman Art Library
III Vincente Alban Quito, Lady with slave and fruit, 1783. The Art Archive/Museo de América, Madrid
IV A group of Portuguese dining in a Water-Tank, from the Codice Casanatense, c. 1540. Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome
V Fray Juan Bautista Maino, Relief of Bahia, Brazil, detail, 17th century. The Art Achive/Museo del Prado, Madrid
VI Gaspar Miguel Berrio, Descripcion de Zerro Rico e Ymperial Villa de Potosí, 1758. Charcas Museum, Sucre. AKG/Gilles Mermet
VII Ivan Rynne, City of Batavia, Java, c. 1780. The Art Archive
VIII Battle of Lombak, batik, c. 1920. Collectie Galerie Rudolf G. Smend Keulen
IX Maria Sibylla Merian, Flos pavonis (Peacock flower), from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensis, 1705
X The East offering her riches to Britannia. Painted ceiling from East India House
XI Francis Hyman, Clive meeting Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey in 1757, c. 1761-2. National Portrait Gallery, London
XII From Drawings by Tommy McRae, an Aboriginal of the Wahgunyah tribe on the River Murray, 1880. National Library of Australia, Canberra
XIII Henry Brewer, attributed The Port Jackson Painter, Australian Aborigine, c. 1790. Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra
XIV Best Tobacco advertised on labels, mid-18th century. Private Collection
XV Anon. The Danish colonist in Africa, September 17, 1817. The Art Archive/City Museum Copenhagen/Dagli Orti
XVI Anne-Louis Girodet, Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belley, 1797. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
XVII The peoples of Russia. From Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Beschreibung alle Nationen der Russischen Reiches, 1799, St Petersburg
XVIII What Siberia is giving to Soviet Russia. The Art Archive/Musée des Deux Guerres Mondiales, Paris/Dagli Orti
XIX Poster for the Colonial Exposition, 1931. Bridgeman Art Library/Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, Paris
XX Advertisement postcard for ‘Th. Moskopf of Fahr, Rhineland’, pre-1914. Collection Joachim Zeller
XXI Henrique Galvão, Portugal is not a small country, 1934. Porto
XXII From Kolonie und Heimat, 1941, Berlin. Collection Joachim Zeller
XXIII From J. Perraudin, Le Beau Métier de Missionnaire, Namur, Grands Lacs
XXIV W. Roveroni, reproduced in Penrose Annual, 1939. Mary Evans Picture Library
XXV Commodore Perry’s paddle-steamer arriving in Yokohama, 1853. Bridgeman Art Library/British Museum, London
XXVI Great American Tea Company poster, 19th century. Bridgeman Art Library/Collection of the New-York Historical Society