Colonialism and imperialism

This timely and urgent collection brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and ideas from around the world to present critical examinations of climate coloniality.

Until the 1970s Oman was an isolated, almost medieval kingdom, virtually unknown to the outside world.

An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers.

This book examines the development of the tiny dissident movement that was Free France in 1940 into a broad-based, popularly supported provisional government.

This collection probes the troubling connections between war and republic during Revolutionary era, 1776-1840.

The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity.

Examining political and socioeconomic change in the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), this book, first published in 1987, focuses primarily on the quarter century following the overthrow of the imamate in 1962.

Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation explores Indigenous practices of curation, object repatriation, and cross-cultural community engagement in a dynamic Koori museum.

Originally conceived as a military history, this second edition completes the story of the Middle Eastern populations that underwent significant transformation in the nineteenth century, finally imploding in communal violence, paramilitary activity, and genocide after the Berlin Treaty of 1878.

This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management in Southern Africa.

Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development, but how do these ideals sit with the day-to-day reality of marginalised communities struggling with poverty, precarity, and the deprivation of human rights?

Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities.

When the notion of 'alternative facts' and the alleged dawning of a 'postfactual' world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory.

The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean.

Homelandings is a critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' based on racist and heteronormative assumptions.

Indian diaspora has had a complex and multifaceted role in catalyzing, justifying and promoting a transformed urban landscape in India.

This book examines instances of transformative dissent, turning points or shifts in popular mobilisation patterns in contemporary India, while adopting a historical approach and analysing past events.

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.

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During the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine (1939-1948), Arabs and Jews used the law as a resource to gain leverage against each other and to influence international opinion.

After over a century of intensive colonial rule and nearly eight years of revolutionary warfare, Algeria emerged in a state of total economic decrepitude and political backwardness.

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

Wie weit ging die katholische Kirche, um ihre Macht zu sichern?

This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support.

Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.

The first in-depth and comparative study of the experience of colonial encounters for troops from the British Empire during the First World War.

Integrates Native American perspectives into American history Native Voices is a source reader that covers the entire span of Native American history.

In Rising Up, Living On, Catherine E.

This edited collection takes a multifaceted approach to the various limitations and achievements of Western philosophy.

In 1602, the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the first commercial company, the Dutch East India Company, and, in so doing, initiated a new wave of globalization.

The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since made a stunning comeback, generating a series of heated debates about the causes, character, and consequences of empire.

Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean (1986) is a comparative and systematic study of the legacies bequeathed by British and French colonial rule in the Caribbean.

This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis.

Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain's African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence.

A highly illustrated history of the Spanish conquest of Mexico from 1519 to 1521, an epic clash of civilisations that saw the destruction of the Aztec Empire.

This collection of Sonja Brentjes's articles deals with travels, encounters and the exchange of knowledge in the Mediterranean and Western Asia during the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on three historiographical concerns.

South Asia's diaspora is among the world's largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially.

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies offers a unique and up-to-date mapping of the postcolonial world, and is composed of essays as well as shorter entries for ease of reference.

In the administration of colonial finances, the monetary policy of the Imperial power relating to their dependencies has tremendous impact on the colonial economy.

This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria.

Relations between Western nations and their colonial subjects changed dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century.

This book on historical anthropology remaps the Mediterranean by reframing classical themes from early Mediterraneanist anthropology.

Problem Society is an essential introduction to the many facets of divided societies.

Ancient, medieval and modern, this book is a critical account of the historical, political and cultural roots of Zionism.

Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the 'long' nineteenth century.

This book presents an examination of fictional representations, in books and films, of the 1947 Partition that led to the creation of the sovereign nation-states of India and Pakistan.

This volume contains the English translation of the seventeenth-century literary and archival materials about a Basque person who died under the name Antonio de Erauso (b.