Colonialism and imperialism

At the dawn of the information age, the First World War produced blizzards of information, contained in countless official reports.

At 07:30 on 1 July 1916, the men of the 15th Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), better known as the Leeds Pals, left their positions in a series of copses named after the Gospels and advanced towards the village of Serre, near Bapaume, in the Somme Valley, only to be met by heavy German machine gun fire, suffering over 500 casualties in a few minutes.

'One of the saddest and yet most thrilling sights to me was to see parties of those young fellows who had just volunteered being marched from the recruiting office - perhaps 30, 50 or 100 of them - in all sorts of dress - top hats, caps, soft hats, morning coats, jackets - shabby men and 'nuts', labourers, clerks, partners in great city businesses, hooligans - all mixed up, marching side by side, all having made the great decision, ready to lay down their lives for their country .

When war broke out against Germany in 1914, Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan was one of the most diverse and eclectic areas of W ales.

Portobello grew from a settlement founded around 1750 on the Figgate Whins, a desolate area of scrubland 3 miles east of Edinburgh.

The story of Devil from antiquity to the present.

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"e;On the Edge of Empire"e; is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history.

"e;On the Edge of Empire"e; is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history.

In recent years the subject of satanic ritual abuse (SRA) has incited widespread controversy focused primarily on whether or not such abuse actually occurs.

The evil eye has received considerable attention in the literature of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and medicine.

Heroines and History is a comparative study of the images of Laura Secord and Madeleine de Vercheres, symbols respectively of the nationalism of English-Canadian and French-Canadian loyalism and national identity.

In 1725-6 the British colonial government of Nova Scotia signed a treaty of friendship and peace with the local Mi'kmaq people.

Prior to the publication of The Sense of Power most studies of the Canadian movement for imperial unity focused on commercial policy and military and naval cooperation.

Prior to the publication of The Sense of Power most studies of the Canadian movement for imperial unity focused on commercial policy and military and naval cooperation.

The period from 1690 to 1763 was a time of intense territorial competition during which Indigenous peoples remained a dominant force.

The period from 1690 to 1763 was a time of intense territorial competition during which Indigenous peoples remained a dominant force.

This book presents a new perspective on colonialism in Africa.

Empire and Nations was written in tribute to the accomplishments of Frederic Hubert Soward - teacher, scholar, and administrator - who for forty-two years served in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia.

Who has the more legitimate claim to land, settlers who occupy and improve it with their labour, or landlords who claim ownership on the basis of imperial grants?

The movement of one cultural group into the territory of another has always produced conflict: a conflict which is resolved at times by the obliteration of one group, but more often by a gradual fusion of elements drawn from both.

Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism.

Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires.

The impact of empires and the lingering presence of colonialism continue to be major preoccupations for scholars in the twenty-first century.

The vastness of Britain’s nineteenth-century empire and the gap between imperial policy and colonial practice demanded an institutional culture that encouraged British administrators to identify the interests of imperial service as their own.

The vastness of Britain’s nineteenth-century empire and the gap between imperial policy and colonial practice demanded an institutional culture that encouraged British administrators to identify the interests of imperial service as their own.

The impact of empires and the lingering presence of colonialism continue to be major preoccupations for scholars in the twenty-first century.

There is an unconscious racism at work in Canada—an ignorance of Aboriginal peoples and culture that breeds indifference to, and ambivalence about, Aboriginal poverty and ill health.

Will social change in Latin America lead to a kinder, gentler form of globalization or a model that offers a radical rethinking of how we produce and distribute wealth?

There is an unconscious racism at work in Canada—an ignorance of Aboriginal peoples and culture that breeds indifference to, and ambivalence about, Aboriginal poverty and ill health.

We are not You starts with a 1992 court case, Peters v.

"e;An intriguing and carefully argued entry into a small and often overlooked discussion of American political maneuvering at the end of World War I.

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America.

A guide to deliverance ministry explains the biblical record and clarifies what a deliverance ministry is and how it functions in the church of today.

This work analyzes the politics of anthropological knowledge from critical perspective that alters existing understandings of colonialism.

The process of colonization that followed the Norman Conquest defined much of the history of England over the next 150 years, structurally altering the distribution of land and power in society.

The army in India was the principal pillar of British power in South Asia from the mid-nineteenth century until Indian independence.

The only previous war to match the world wars of the twentieth century in scale and impact was the French War of 1793-1815.

This work looks at the period of South African history before the "mineral age", and particularly the years of British rule up to the 1850s, and establishes its importance in the shaping of South African society.

The army in India was the principal pillar of British power in South Asia from the mid-nineteenth century until Indian independence.

"e;Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and eye-opening in major and minor ways, this book will be valuable not only to academics but to all readers.

This book interprets relationships between art and ethics in the context of contemporary South African art.

This book examines the relationship between Britain and Oman since the end of the Second World War up until the Iranian revolution.

This book addresses the rise of the concept of the "e;Global Anglophone"e; in contemporary literary studies, both as an intellectual category and as a field designation.

Focusing on imagination and self-representation as a key sociocultural force, this book examines the diverse ways Muslim writers articulate complex and multifaceted conceptualizations of Muslimness at the critical conjuncture of culture, faith, gender, sexuality and diasporic experience.