Colonialism and imperialism

The phenomenon of imperialism has never been under such intense scrutiny, by such a wide range of academic disciplines, as it is today.

Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts explores childhood and youth in the Global South.

This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars.

The late nineteenth century is generally thought of as a period of imperial enthusiasm and fervour, however, beneath the surface there were currents of disquiet and discontent.

Afroeuropeans: Identities, Racism, and Resistances reflects on the tensions, ambiguities, and paradoxes of Blackness in Europe.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American Studies.

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

This book presents a comprehensive history of handloom weaving industry in India to challenge and revise the view that competition from machine-produced textiles destroyed the country's handicrafts as claimed by historians until recently.

Pondicherry had its own history due to its connection with the French.

Thinking through anti, post, and decolonial theories, this book examines, analyses, and conceptualises 'visibly Muslim' Lebanese women's lived experiences of discrimination, assault, wounding, and erasure.

This is Volume I of two on the people, institutions and resources of the Russian Empire first published in English in 1856.

This collection of essays collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question: what was the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia?

Remembering Independence explores the commemoration and remembrance of independence following the great wave of decolonisation after the Second World War.

This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War.

Builders of the Pyramids and most ancient of all the powers of the biblical world, the Egyptians remain one of history's most fascinating and enigmatic peoples.

Winner of the Women's History Network Prize 2014
Winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize 2015

Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste provides the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Impey and her radical political magazine, Anti-Caste.

Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south.

This book examines political responses to the problem of human trafficking, including proposals, actions (legislative and executive), and statements made by politicians, government agencies, and civil society organizations to solve or mitigate the crime of human trafficking.

A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.

This book presents the reader with a detailed analysis of the U.

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This illustrated A-Z encyclopedia provides easy access to information about the emperor Napoleon.

To rule their vast new American territories, the Spanish monarchs appointed viceroys in an attempt to reproduce the monarchical system of government prevailing at the time in Europe.

This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works.

First published in 1944, this volume covers the period of the old Empire and of the readjustments of the second Empire which followed the failure of the old after the revolt of the American colonies, ending with the emergence of free trade, and is significant to the history of the American colonies and of the British Commonwealth of Nations.

The American press played a significant role in the transference of European civilization to America and in the shaping of American society.

This book presents a critical analysis of the concept of 'adequate housing'.

For decades, Noam Chomsky has been considered one of the most important critics of American's foreign policy in Central and Latin America and yet Turning the Tide is one of his only written works which makes that region its sole focus.

From refugees fleeing wars or natural disasters to economic migrants pursuing better paid jobs abroad, international migration is an inescapable part of the modern world.

This handbook, the first of its kind, provides a rich overview of the socio-political issues and dynamics impacting Turkey's diasporic groups and diaspora policymaking.

It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies.

This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries.

An estimated one million Armenians were killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

This book examines the Indo-Surinamese Girmitiya peasants and their contributions to developing the ethnic community within their newly adopted home.

Colonel Donald Gilbert Cook was the first U.

Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists.

This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region.

This book examines the role of the law in the constitution and contestation of state power in Zimbabwean history.

First published in 1993.

This book explores the interaction between science and society and the development of forensic science as well as the historical roots of crime detection in colonial India.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus.

This book examines how migration and mobility were controlled, supported, and restricted in early modern Europe and European colonies.

Interweaving rich ethnographic descriptions with an innovative theoretical approach, this book explores and unsettles conventional maps and understandings of Europe and the Americas.

For President Lyndon Johnson, 1968 was a year of calamity, including the hijacking of the USS Pueblo in international waters off North Korea.

This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis.

Globalism, colonialism, and consumerism have caused unjust suffering (han), for the earth's exploited peoples and the exploited lands.

The British in India, first as adventurers, then as traders and finally as rulers through the India Office in London and the Viceroy's Government in India, oversaw all aspects of Indian life - district administrations, law, police, army, trade, education and culture and relations with princely states and foreign powers.

Taking the theme of 'abolition' as its point of departure, this book builds on the significant growth in scholarship on unfree labour in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds during the past two decades.