Colonialism and imperialism

This book offers the first-ever scholarly study of Wilhelm I as Germany's first Kaiser.

How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonization?

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.

First Published in 1968.

In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.

This volume deals mainly with Swann's life on and around Lake Tanganyika, a life that brought him knowledge of many African peoples living on the lake's shores.

A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century.

This book seeks to highlight the influence of the Enlightenment idea of social progress on the character of the "e;civilising mission"e; in early Australia by tracing its presence in the various "e;civilising"e; attempts undertaken between 1788 and 1850.

Interrogating the multiple ways in which travel was narrated and mediated, by and in response to, nineteenth-century British travelers, this interdisciplinary collection examines to what extent these accounts drew on and developed existing tropes of travel.

Known for his influential role in the debates that established the founding documents of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was not only an astute politician, but also an Atlantic citizen whose commitment to the American cause was informed by years spent in England and France.

This book challenges assumptions that poor post-colonial economic performance is always a direct product of colonialism by reconsidering the Belgian Congo (1908-1959) as a developmental state.

This book examines the correlations between language behaviour and happiness amongst communities of migrants, and addresses the overarching question of whether language can affect wellbeing.

As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish border guards, state officials, military settlers, teachers, academics, urban planners, and health workers descended upon Volhynia, an eastern borderland province that was home to Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews.

The Sikh community is one of the largest groups of Indians abroad and many studies of these migrants have been conducted.

Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce.

This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa's most prolific and groundbreaking writers, widely recognized for highlighting the everyday experiences of women and the domestic side of apartheid.

This book traces the contours of the symbiotic relationship between crop cultivation and cattle rearing in India by reading against the grain of several official accounts from the late colonial period to the 1980s.

INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATIONFrom the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey, following four 19th century elephants marched from the East African coast towards Congo, to tell a heartbreaking story of folly and colonial greed.

This volume offers a new cultural and political history of the idea of the nation.

Up until recently, Europe's three imperial monarchies - the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires - were seen as moribund political entities, unable to accommodate the forces of political, social, economic, and cultural modernization, and as a result collapsed collectively during or shortly after the First World War.

Commercial Relations between India and England (1924) is a comprehensive study of the beginnings of the English relations with India and the East.

Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy dives into decoloniality discourse, challenging some of its shortcomings and offering alternative perspectives on the nature of Africanity and Afrotopia (Africa's better future) from leading African philosophers.

Ranging geographically from Tierra del Fuego to California and the Caribbean, and historically from early European sightings and the utopian projects of would-be colonizers to the present-day cultural politics of migrant communities and international relations, this volume presents a rich variety of case studies and scholarly perspectives on the interplay of diverse cultures in the Americas since the European conquest.

This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the last decades of the 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha.

During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a "e;mania.

When the young Hussein became the King of Jordan in 1953, conventional wisdom held that his days were numbered.

In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K.

The Tudor period remains a source of timeless fascination, with endless novels, TV programmes and films depicting the period in myriad ways.

In Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities Bernd Reiter contributes to the ongoing efforts to decolonize the social sciences and humanities, by arguing that true decolonization implies a liberation from the elite culture that Western civilization has perpetually promoted.

For centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape.

This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka's engagement with the classical past.

Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War - a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next century.

This 5 volume set tracks the various legal, administrative and social documentation on the progress of Indian education from 1780 to 1947.

First published in 1986, this book sets Kipling firmly in the historical context not only of contemporary India but of prior Anglo-Indian writers about India.

This book examines conferences and commissions held for British colonial territories in East and Central Africa in the early 1960s.

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

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

Writing has long been linked to power.

By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire.

Critical Realism, Somalia and the Diaspora Community equips new researchers with a simplified knowledge of critical realism suitable to the degree of their comprehension.

This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "e;protection"e; was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain's antipodean colonies.

Foregrounding the ways in which men experience transnational migration, Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities considers how we conceptualise and theorise mobile men in a global context.

This volume seeks to capture the rich array of images that define Japan's encounters with the Pacific Ocean.

This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of the twentieth-century world history.

This collection brings much-needed focus to the vibrancy and vitality of minority and marginal writing about empire, and to their implications as expressions of embodied contact between imperial power and those negotiating its consequences from "e;below.

Representations of indigenous peoples, while never static, have always served the interests of settler-colonialism.

The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world.