This book investigates the intersection of nobility, empire and dynastic change and survival through the history of one of Portugal’s most active and enduring aristocratic lineages, the Mascarenhas.
This book investigates the intersection of nobility, empire and dynastic change and survival through the history of one of Portugal’s most active and enduring aristocratic lineages, the Mascarenhas.
This book offers new ways of understanding the past glory of the Majapahit empire from the present-day perspective through re-interpretations of the existing data, research of new data and findings, and syntheses of various results of previous studies.
This book offers new ways of understanding the past glory of the Majapahit empire from the present-day perspective through re-interpretations of the existing data, research of new data and findings, and syntheses of various results of previous studies.
Depuis 2021, des recherches ont ete menees sur l'acquisition de plus de 400 restes humains provenant des colonies allemandes d'Afrique de l'Ouest et conserves au Museum fur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte de Berlin.
Seit den 2015er-Jahren haben global zirkulierende Diskurse zunehmend Aufmerksamkeit auf die Rolle gesellschaftlicher Institutionen im Globalen Norden gelenkt – insbesondere im Hinblick auf ihre Mitwirkung an der Reproduktion kolonialer Kontinuitäten.
Seit den 2015er-Jahren haben global zirkulierende Diskurse zunehmend Aufmerksamkeit auf die Rolle gesellschaftlicher Institutionen im Globalen Norden gelenkt – insbesondere im Hinblick auf ihre Mitwirkung an der Reproduktion kolonialer Kontinuitäten.
Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire identifies the rise of Asianism in the early twentieth century as the origin and primary driving force of resistance movements that brought down the British Empire.
Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire identifies the rise of Asianism in the early twentieth century as the origin and primary driving force of resistance movements that brought down the British Empire.
America's bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americansand explains how it should shape our politics today.
Jenkins sets about his task with infectious enthusiasm and draws out all the most important themes in America s 250-year history' The TimesIn the two hundred and fifty years since its foundation, the United States of America has grown to become the world s richest and most powerful union.
El relato de unos de los episodios mas fascinantes de la historia, el descubrimiento de la ciudad perdida de Alejandro Magno por parte del aventurero Charles Masson.
Imperial Designs is the first text in English to deal comprehensively with the subject of the Italian colonial experience in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Imperial Designs is the first text in English to deal comprehensively with the subject of the Italian colonial experience in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it was known as white gold.
Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psyche In this innovative book, Sladja Blaan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in fostering the cultural imaginary, offering a medium for framing political ideologies, philosophical thought, racial anxieties, and social concerns.
Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psyche In this innovative book, Sladja Blaan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in fostering the cultural imaginary, offering a medium for framing political ideologies, philosophical thought, racial anxieties, and social concerns.
Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained?
Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained?
'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, TLS, Books of the YearAs Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict.
Explores how and why people manipulated borders in the early modern Atlantic worldClaiming Land, Claiming Water shares what historians and geographers wish readers knew about maps and borders before, during, and after the founding of the United States.
Explores how and why people manipulated borders in the early modern Atlantic worldClaiming Land, Claiming Water shares what historians and geographers wish readers knew about maps and borders before, during, and after the founding of the United States.
The first collection to explore forms of coercive labor education as connected global phenomena across modern history At its core, industrial education was a project of imperial modernity that sought to reform marginalized populations towards the extractive ends of empire and capital.
The first collection to explore forms of coercive labor education as connected global phenomena across modern history At its core, industrial education was a project of imperial modernity that sought to reform marginalized populations towards the extractive ends of empire and capital.
A new interpretation of captivity, human trafficking, and colonization in the seventeenth-century CaribbeanA century before the height of the Atlantic slave trade, early modern racialized slavery emerged through practices of captive-taking and human trafficking in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Caribbean.
A new interpretation of captivity, human trafficking, and colonization in the seventeenth-century CaribbeanA century before the height of the Atlantic slave trade, early modern racialized slavery emerged through practices of captive-taking and human trafficking in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Caribbean.
Tenacious activism by Quakers, African Americans, and antislavery evangelicals made antislavery central to the American RevolutionIn Let the Oppressed Go Free, Nicholas P.
A provocative new account of the ideological framework undergirding early modern imperial expansion: the Doctrine of DiscoveryMaking All the World America offers a new account of the ideological framework undergirding early modern imperial expansion: the Doctrine of Discovery, which held that the first arrival of a European power among the lands and peoples of the Western Hemisphere granted the right to govern the regions that they claimed to have "e;discovered.
A provocative new account of the ideological framework undergirding early modern imperial expansion: the Doctrine of DiscoveryMaking All the World America offers a new account of the ideological framework undergirding early modern imperial expansion: the Doctrine of Discovery, which held that the first arrival of a European power among the lands and peoples of the Western Hemisphere granted the right to govern the regions that they claimed to have "e;discovered.
A complex history of rum, from its production to its consumption, and from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world It was strong.
A sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, reissued with a new preface that discusses the complicated legacy of the nation's founding at its 250th anniversary for the Indigenous peoples of Pennsylvania and New JerseyIn 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents.
A sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, reissued with a new preface that discusses the complicated legacy of the nation's founding at its 250th anniversary for the Indigenous peoples of Pennsylvania and New JerseyIn 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents.
Although Germany was one of the principal colonising nations in Africa and today is the world's second largest aid donor, there is no literature on the postcolonial condition of contemporary German development policy.
