Colonialism and imperialism

Bands structured around western wind instruments are among the most widespread instrumental ensembles in the world.

With fascinating extracts from his own writings, this book reveals the captivating travels and adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle - the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

This book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the colonised.

In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy's second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era-the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps.

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At a time when global debates about the movement of people have never been more heated, this book provides readers with an accessible, student-friendly guide to the subject of forced migration.

This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery.

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.

Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work.

This book offers fresh perspectives on the legacy of colonialism in the North-east frontiers of India, especially the Naga Hills.

This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World.

In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States' acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary between domestic and foreign--and between nation and empire.

This text helps students understand world history by focusing on an issue that has profoundly shaped the modern world order: the establishment and collapse of global empires since 1750.

From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with the gods, this exciting new anthology examines the conversion of the colonized.

Examines the emergence of anti-imperialist internationalism during the interwar years from the perspective of India''s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed.

Modern France and the World provides an engaging global history of the key events of modern France and its empire.

The British Arctic Expedition of 1875-6 was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic where science was almost as important as geographical exploration.

An innovative study of colonialism in China, examining Shanghai''s International Settlement as the site of key developments in the Republican period.

This book is a significant contribution to the socio-political history of science and technology in India, combining a wholistic perspective with a strong regional flavour.

Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism brings together a range of scholarly research papers to examine the place of international migration in the modern world, starting with the overview of migration and development by Alejandro Portes.

Focusing on the interconnections of the Atlantic world from 1450-1900, The Atlantic Connection examines the major themes of Atlantic history.

In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950.

This book focuses on how Irish remembrance of the First World War impacted the emerging Irish identity in the postcolonial Irish Free State.

An investigation of the Atlantic origins of the American Revolution, focusing on the British navy''s impressment of American ships and mariners.

This timely book fills a lacuna in the extensive literature on Churchill's life and times.

The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under colonial rule, weaving the everyday stories of people living through the experience of colonialism into the bigger picture of empire.

While there have been many analyses of American imperialism, few have equalled the breadth or insight of this seminal text, one of the first to provide a historical perspective on the origins of the American empire.

This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962.

Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience.

This book examines literary representations of Sydney and its waterway in the context of Australian modernism and modernity in the interwar period.

The Arab Diaspora examines the range of roles the Arab world has played to various audiences on the modern and postmodern stage and the issues which have arisen as a result.

The South Asian Diaspora numbers just under 30 million people worldwide, and it is recognized as the most widely dispersed diaspora.

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d'Angouleme, the duchesse de Berry, Queen of the French Marie-Amelie, and Adelaide d'Orleans.

Three to Ride chronicles the events leading to the actions taken by British colonists in America against British troops, ultimately concluding in independence for the colonies.

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

Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past.

The Scourging of Iraq describes the impact of the 1991 Gulf War and subsequent economic sanctions on the Iraqi people.

Inmitten der prächtigen Höfe Frankreichs diente eine Gruppe tapferer Männer, die zu einem unverwechselbaren Symbol für Treue und Stärke wurde: die Schweizergarde.

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

From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr.

The intensifying conflicts between religious communities in contemporary South and Southeast Asia signify the importance of gaining a clearer understanding of how societies have historically organised and mastered their religious diversity.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East.

This book looks at East Asian actors in the League of Nations to explore a pivotal moment in the early stage of the development of global international relations.