Colonialism and imperialism

The papers presented in this collection offer a wide range of cases, from Asia, Africa and the Americas, and broadly cover the last two centuries, in which commodities have led to the consolidation of a globalised economy and society - forging this out of distinctive local experiences of cultivation and production, and regional circuits of trade.

This volume constitutes a multidisciplinary intervention into the emerging field of postcolonial studies in Italy, bringing together cultural and social history, critical and political theory, literary and cinematic analyses, ethnomusicology and cultural studies, anthropological fieldwork, and race, gender, diaspora, and urban studies.

'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century.

Dunes, sandstorms, freezing crags and searing heat; these are not the usual images of World War I.

Shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author.

Spencer Mawby analyses the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.

Based on archival sources and oral history, this book reconstructs a border-building process in Namibia that spanned more than sixty years.

A look at the extensive inequality and individualism in Prince George's County, Maryland, and the wider tobacco south, this book draws on colonial historiography to take a groundbreaking approach and examines the profound impacts of the structure of the international tobacco trade on local life.

In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron , a dime-store colonial adventure novel, '[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.

A detailed look at how South Africa's museum present the nation's past, and how they can serve as a lens for examining changes in South African society at large.

Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture.

In Liberal Barbarism, Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace north-west of Beijing - at the hands of British and French armies.

The first book in the new Postcolonialism and Religions series offers a preview of the series focus on multireligious, indigenous, and transnational scholarly voices.

This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material.

Discusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played into a variety of forms of othering that took place in England during its imperial venture.

This book explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, and the associations created from these social interactions.

This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India.

Jonathan Chu explores individual economic and legal behaviors, connecting them to adjustments in trade relations with Europe and Asia, the rise in debt litigation in Western Massachusetts, deflation and monetary illiquidity, and the Bank of North America.

Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.

The end of empire shaped the way the British public saw their place in the world, society and the ethnic and racial boundaries of their nation.

A major historical study of the global arms trade, revolving around the transfer of small arms from metropolitan Europe to the turbulent frontiers of Indian Ocean societies during the 'long' nineteenth century (c.

This book aims to fill some of the gaps in historical narrative about labor unions, Nigerian leftists, and decolonization during the twentieth century.

This book provides a study of the American anti-imperialist movement during its most active years of opposition to US foreign policy, from 1898 to 1909.

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Sourcebook is a collection of dynamic primary sources intended to accompany the second edition of Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History.

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Sourcebook is a collection of dynamic primary sources intended to accompany the second edition of Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History.

Charles Shephard, a legal officer of the island of Saint Vincent, made no attempt at objectivity in his account of the great 1795 Carib rebellion, this book being dedicated to the British survivors.

Charles Shephard, a legal officer of the island of Saint Vincent, made no attempt at objectivity in his account of the great 1795 Carib rebellion, this book being dedicated to the British survivors.

A comprehensive study of the island that was once Britain's foremost colonial possession in the Western Hemisphere.

A comprehensive study of the island that was once Britain's foremost colonial possession in the Western Hemisphere.

During his stay in the West Indies as a Dominican missionary, pere Labat was able to observe buccaneers and their ships.

During his stay in the West Indies as a Dominican missionary, pere Labat was able to observe buccaneers and their ships.

First Published in 1971.

First Published in 1971.

First published in 1842, this account has particular reference to the actions of the British Government.

First published in 1842, this account has particular reference to the actions of the British Government.

First Published in 1968.

First Published in 1968.

This book presents an innovative investigation of the policies of the Indian Congress during the late colonial period.

This book presents an innovative investigation of the policies of the Indian Congress during the late colonial period.

German colonialism is a thriving field of study.

German colonialism is a thriving field of study.

This textbook offers an accessible introduction to counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare.

This textbook offers an accessible introduction to counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare.

This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire.

This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire.

This book brings together, for the first time, studies of the professionalisation of accountancy in key constituent territories of the British Empire.

This book brings together, for the first time, studies of the professionalisation of accountancy in key constituent territories of the British Empire.

This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender.

This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender.

The Round Table journal (now subtitled The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs) first appeared in 1910.