The Palgrave Encyclopedia Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism objectively presents the prominent themes, epochal events, theoretical explanations, and historical accounts of imperialism from 1776 to the present. It is the most historically and academically comprehensive examination of the subject to date.

Immanuel Ness is a Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is the author of Workers, Corporate Despotism and Worker Resistance (2011) and is working on a manuscript focusing on precarious labour, workers councils, worker control and self management, and radical social movements.

Dr Zak Cope obtained a PhD from the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Dimensions of Prejudice: Towards a Political Economy of Bigotry (2008) and Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour under Capitalism (2012 and 2014).