Colonialism and imperialism

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

Charting attempts to regulate the obscene within the Britain Empire, and the resulting contradictions that sustained imperial and colonial regimes.

For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli.

This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000.

This book explores the lives and social histories of Indians soldiers who fought in the First World War.

A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accountsPrevious accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean town of Cajamarca.

An account of how the three most interested powersGreat Britain, France, and Spainmanipulated the problem of native protection for economic advantage and the unsatisfactory results of their efforts.

Cuban culture has long been available to English speakers via translation.

Rewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise.

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

This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of 'mothering' that took place in Atlantic slave societies.

Explores how European nations were remade by the end of empire, through the history of ''returning'' settlers from Portuguese Africa.

This work, first published in 1897, is neither more nor less than the history of China as it has been written during successive ages by the authorized historians of the Empire.

This book unearths the buried legacies of modern legal thought, exposing femicide's entanglements with colonialism, Black Atlantic slavery, and their enduring afterlives, while forging countercolonial pathways to justice.

This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people's domestic and intimate spheres of life.

Slavery in the Roman Empire, first published in 1928, examines the working of slavery in the first two centuries of the Roman Empire.

This book explores how the Romantic poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Keats engages with tales and themes of the Orient.

"Die Arbeit ist auf unnachgiebige Weise analytisch und zugleich ein Lesevergnügen.

In 1888, there were just four British consulates in the country; by 1921 there were twenty-three.

This book unfolds the story of the indenture system within the British Empire, with India as the ''mother country'' of coolies.

With the end of the British Raj in 1947, the Foreign Office replaced the Government of India as the department responsible for the Persian Gulf, and would proceed to manage relations with the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates, UAE) until British withdrawal in 1971.

This book, first published in 1943, sets forth the history of the rise and development of the states of princely India from the end of the eighteenth century until the beginning of nineteenth.

It is twenty-five years since the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda when in the course of three terrible months more than 1 million people were murdered.

As the articles reprinted in this volume demonstrate, medieval men and women were curious about the world around them.

First published in 1972, The Forsaken Lover draws upon Chris Searle's experience as an English teacher in a secondary school in Tobago to focus upon the deep problems of identity encountered by black people having to use the white man's language.

This rigorous study explores how French colonial violence during the Mandate laid the foundations for the modern state in Syria.

Hundreds of young Americans from the town of Stamford, Connecticut, fought in the Vietnam War.

Based on interviews with women who were professionals in different fields in Nigeria prior to migrating, The Migration of Professional Women from Nigeria to the UK examines the ways in which professional, middle-class women make sense of their lived experiences, their roles in migration decision-making and their experiences of adaptation in the UK.

Asian American War Stories examines contemporary Asian American literature that considers both the short-term and the long-term effects of war, trauma, and displacement on civilians, as well as the ways that individuals seek healing in the face of suffering.

Although the significance of transatlantic currents of influence on slavery and abolition in the Americas has received substantial scholarly attention, the focus has tended to be largely on the British transatlantic, or on the effects of American racial politics on the emergence of Irish American political identity in the US.

Elusive Empire was the first full account of how between 1670 and 1730 French settlers came to the Americas.

This edited collection draws together new historical writing on the Commonwealth.

Although there have been a number of studies on Black resistance, very few of these have focused exclusively on such a wide range of resistance campaigns and strategies within a single volume.

A timely study of Hong Kong''s politics and society since the 1997 handover that explores the city''s long history of resistance.

The chapters in this volume examine the racial and ethnic landscape of Britain in a contemporary era of neoliberalism and financial crisis.

This book focuses on new immigrant families from the People's Republic of China to New Zealand and investigates how these families have adapted to New Zealand immigration policy regime, which does not accommodate their cultural preference to live as multigenerational families easily.

In Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art, Caroline Fowler examines the fundamental role of the transatlantic slave trade in the production and evolution of seventeenth-century Dutch art.

This book examines the relationship between Catholic missionaries and the colonial administration in southeastern Belgian Congo.

A fully annotated scholarly edition of the political writings of William Penn (1644-1718), an influential theorist of liberty of conscience.

For more than half a century, the field of Canadian Studies has attracted North American scholars of the highest caliber to examine Canada: its distinctive social makeup, its fascinating colonial and postcolonial history, its intriguing literature, its political structure, and its changing place in the world.

The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India was much more than a 'sepoy mutiny'.

This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.

As a result of new research, we can now paint a more complex picture of peoples and cultures in the south Atlantic, from the earliest period of the slave trade up to the present.

Speaking to a broader global preoccupation with the state of languages and language development, this book considers issues surrounding the diverse languages, linguistic communities, and cultures of Zimbabwe.

Kaufman and Williams present critical issues in international relations through an intersectional approach that examines race, gender, class, ethnicity, and power to arrive at better explanations for such core IR issues as war and peace, security, human rights, development and international political economy, and the global environment.

From the Victorian period to the present, images of the policeman have played a prominent role in the literature of empire, shaping popular perceptions of colonial policing.

This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial Kenya.

Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses.