Colonialism and imperialism

A dramatic and innovative history of the British public''s confrontation with the iniquities of nineteenth-century colonial rule.

Examines the Wampanoag Indians of Martha''s Vineyard and their interaction with the English settlements and religious culture.

A major study of the cultural origins of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism in general.

A major study of the cultural origins of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism in general.

This book demonstrates how the legacy of Britain''s first air raids helped prepare civilians for the Second World War.

This is the first study in English of the French general who led the Allies to victory in 1918.

Barry Crosbie examines Ireland''s crucial role in fuelling Britain''s drive into South Asia from the 1750s onwards.

Barry Crosbie examines Ireland''s crucial role in fuelling Britain''s drive into South Asia from the 1750s onwards.

Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands is a study of empire, occupation and decolonization, and uncovers Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Through a landmark court case in mid-nineteenth-century colonial India, this book investigates hierarchy and racial difference.

Examines human sexuality as an intrinsic element in the interpretation of complex colonial societies.

Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands is a study of empire, occupation and decolonization, and uncovers Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Through a landmark court case in mid-nineteenth-century colonial India, this book investigates hierarchy and racial difference.

Examines human sexuality as an intrinsic element in the interpretation of complex colonial societies.

This study of the great powers'' expansionism encompasses the global events of the first half of the twentieth century.

This book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft and its contentious relationship with the state in colonial Kenya.

Shows how the policies, practices, forms and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British empire.

An incisive analysis of religious conflict in South Asia, which it is argued arises out of weak political and state structures.

This book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft and its contentious relationship with the state in colonial Kenya.

Shows how the policies, practices, forms and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British empire.

An incisive analysis of religious conflict in South Asia, which it is argued arises out of weak political and state structures.

This study examines the military performance of France, Germany, Russia, the US, Great Britain, Japan and Italy between 1914 and 1945.

The story of failed diplomacy during the peacemaking process at Versailles and the path that led to World War II.

This book traces the history of Indian Shi''ism through the colonial period toward independence in 1947.

This book traces the history of Indian Shi''ism through the colonial period toward independence in 1947.

Explores how disease and human responses to it influenced the South and the United States.

Traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in Mali.

Explores how disease and human responses to it influenced the South and the United States.

Traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in Mali.

This book examines the history of the Leeward Islands from their independence in 1670 to the outbreak of the American Revolution.

This book examines the history of the Leeward Islands from their independence in 1670 to the outbreak of the American Revolution.

This book is an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the nature of design as a form of communication within and across Britain and its empire in the long nineteenth century.

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.

Ireland in an Imperial World interrogates the myriad ways through which Irish men and women experienced, participated in, and challenged empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book points out a novel pattern in colonial intimacy - that Catholic colonizers tended to leave behind significant mixed communities while Protestant colonizers were more likely to police relations with local women.

This wide-ranging volume presents the most complete appraisal of modern African history to date.

This book weaves William Thomas Thornton'slife story into the larger themes of his diverse writings whose purpose was toexpose ambiguities and contradictions in politics, economics, metaphysics andreligion.

This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do.

This book examines the evangelical Christian worship focusing primarily in the island-state of Grenada.

This book is a vivid history of Madagascar from the pre-colonial era to decolonization, examining a set of French colonial projects and perceptions that revolve around issues of power, vulnerability, health, conflict, control and identity.

This book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region and its component countries.

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire.

This book explores the world of Nigerian universities to offer an innovative perspective on the history of development and decolonisation from the 1930s to the 1960s.

The typical image of the Gezira Scheme, the large-scale irrigation scheme started under British colonial rule in Sudan, is of a centrally planned effort by a central colonial power controlling tenants and cotton production.

This volume looks at the history of Japan from a transnational perspective.

Examining the rise of the field of imperial history in Britain and wider webs of advocacy, this book demonstrates how intellectuals and politicians promoted settler colonialism, excluded the subject empire, and laid a precarious framework for decolonization.

The Crimean War was fought far from its namesake peninsula in Ukraine.

This volume explores how France's 'modernising mission' unfolded during the post-war period and its reverberations in the decades after empire.

This book is grounded in a theorization of the author's personal story including growing up as a female adoptee of a single parent in a patriarchal context, and current material context as an immigrant in New Zealand.

This book illuminates the neglected history of the Dublin Metropolitan Police - a history that has been long overshadowed by existing historiography, which has traditionally been preoccupied with the more radical aspects of Irish history.