Colonialism and imperialism

Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing practice as a key cultural phenomenon and mechanism of defining one's identity.

Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empires of Europe - Finland.

This collection of essays honours David Fieldhouse, latterly Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge and a foremost authority on the economics of the modern British Empire.

Using Palestine as a case study, Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States shows how recognition politics operate to legitimize long-standing colonial power structures.

This book investigates the diverse ways in which the Portuguese language expanded in Brazil, despite the multilingual landscape that predominated before and after the arrival of the Europeans and the African diaspora.

There is a long-held feeling in Russia that Moscow is the true heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire.

Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no tradition of democratic politics.

This volume of essays focuses upon Britain's international and imperial role from the mid-Victorian era through until the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.

A new understanding of the rise, expansion and perpetuation of slavery in the Atlantic World.

Covering the period from the re-establishment of the Irish militia during the Crimean War until the disbandment of the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1992, this book examines the Irish amateur military tradition within the British Army, distinctive from a British amateur military tradition.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century the British Empire was confronted by two great Chinese questions.

The 'memsahibs' of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film.

In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "e;the Grim"e; conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean.

First published in 1998, this volume reflects that, ever since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism twenty years ago, scholars have tested his thesis against the wider application of his terms to cultural practices and the rhetoric of power.

This book considers three defining movements driven from London and within the region that describe the experience of the Church of England in New England between 1686 and 1786.

Amos, siervos y revolucionarios es el primer ensayo comparativo de la literatura y de las imágenes visuales que produjeron los partidarios del Integrismo Nacional español y de la independencia de Cuba entre 1868 y 1898.

The so-called travels of Sir John Mandeville to the Holy Land, India and Cathay were immensely popular throughout Europe during the late medieval period and were translated into nine different languages.

This book presents knowledge from Indigenous women who enact decolonization and wellbeing through physical activity.

The first major history of photography from coastal East AfricaThe ports of the Swahili coastZanzibar and Mombasa among themhave long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge.

It highlights shifts over two centuries as the geopolitical context has transitioned from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana.

This book considers different stages of Kurdish history, oppression, and genocide through a critical lens, offering an historiography of Iraq and colonialism.

This Handbook inverts the lens on development, asking what Indigenous communities across the globe hope and build for themselves.

The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers' protest of 2020-2021 is one of the longest and biggest (and victorious) social movements in the history of independent India.

Who was Alexander von Humboldt?

This book explores why it is white ethnicity has been rendered invisible, arguing that contemporary people's conceptions of themselves are conditioned by, and derive from, the unknown and forgotten legacy of a colonial past that cannot be confined to the past.

Much has been written about the British experience in India.

Traces and Memories deals with the foundation, mechanisms and scope of slavery-related memorial processes, interrogating how descendants of enslaved populations reconstruct the history of their ancestors when transatlantic slavery is one of the variables of the memorial process.

Colonialism and the Jews in German History brings together new and path-breaking studies on the historical relationship between colonialism and the Jews in Germany.

The October Revolution undoubtedly produced a radicalising effect on the Indian situation from the very beginning.

For Marxists, imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.

While the study of indigenous intermediaries is today the focus of some of the most interesting research in the historiography of colonialism, its roots extend back to at least the 1970s.

Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to France's Revolutionary past to negotiate Algeria's struggle for decolonization from the 1930s to the 1960s.

This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce 'civilization' to 'barbarous' polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan.

This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings - composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege.

In the past decade, historians have begun to make use of the optic of 'transnationalism', a perspective used traditionally by social anthropologists and sociologists in their study of the movement and flow of ideas between continents and countries.

The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has contributed to the flourishing of enduring and prolific worldwide scholarship across numerous fields.

In this remarkable revisionist study, Webb shows that English imperial policy was shaped by a powerful and sustained militaristic, autocratic tradition that openly defined English empire as the imposition of state control by force on dependent people.

Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of 'the South' of the Americas.

This book focuses on a Pentecostal-Evangelical Kenyah community in central Borneo, a region that crosses the border between Malaysia and Indonesia.

Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity.

In the long history of the British Empire there are few stories as singular as that of Margery Perham.

Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities.

This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars to evaluate the viability of four nations approaches to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

All over the world and throughout millennia, states have attempted to subjugate, control and dominate non-state populations and to end their wars.

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts.

Sanctuary is an ancient right.