I: Introduction.- I. Expansion and Reaction: Some Reflections on a Symposium and a Theme.- II: Prologue.- 2. The Expansion of Europe and the ¿Longue Dur?e¿.- III: Expansion and Reaction in Asia.- 3. Was there an Indian Reaction? Western Expansion in Indian Perspective.- 4. ¿Western Expansion and Chinese Reaction¿ ¿ A Theme Reconsidered.- 5. Dutch ¿Expansion¿ and Indonesian Reactions: Some Dilemmas of Modern Colonial Rule (1900¿1942).- IV: Expansion and Reaction in Africa.- 6. French Action and Indigenous Reactions in the Maghrib, 1880¿1914.- 7. French Expansion and Local Reactions in Black Africa in the Time of Imperialism (1880¿1914).- 8. European Imperialism and Indigenous Reactions in British West Africa, 1880¿1914.- V: Epilogue.- 9. European Expansion and the Civilization of Modernity.- Notes on the contributors.