Colonialism and imperialism

This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782-1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818-22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences.

This book is exclusively devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England.

Das Territorium der USA ist viel größer als die offzielle Landkarte zeigt.

How do we try to make the world a better place, when the challenges of poverty, disease, war, conflict, and climate change continue to impact millions of lives?

A guide to the decline of the American empire for individuals, families and communities The United States is in steep decline.

Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.

In an analysis of Britain's policy towards Palestine in the post-mandatory era, the author examines the circumstances which led to the formulation of Britain's policy - the partition of mandatory Palestine between Israel and Jordan - and the stages of its implementation.

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Political Warfare against the Kremlin provides a comparative study and holistic review of American and British propaganda policy toward the Soviet Union during the first fifteen years of the Cold War, ranging from the role senior policymakers played in setting propaganda policy to the West's radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union.

This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period from 1765 to 1947.

This book takes a unique look at the first Boer war by concentrating on the events and battles of the First Boer War.

This book explores the multiform and shifting location of borders and boundaries in social life, related to difference and belonging.

The 1980s was a time of significant social, political and cultural change.

The history of colonial East Asia is a human anatomy describing beneficial organs of foreign rule.

This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world.

Drawing on an impressive range of archival material, this monograph delves into the careers of two businessmen who worked for Nordic chartered monopoly trading companies to illuminate individual entrepreneurship in the context of seventeenth-century long-distance trade.

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Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games is a unique edited collection that explores the interplay of heritage, memory, identity and history within postcolonial board games and their surrounding paratexts.

With the end of the First World War, Germany became a "e;post-colonial"e; power.

This volume explores several notable themes related to political processes in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues in the continent from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

This book examines approaches to reconciliation and peacebuilding in settler colonial, post-conflict, and divided societies.

The book offers an interdisciplinary qualitative study of the history of policing in Brazil and its colonial underpinnings, providing theoretical accounts of the relationship between biopolitics, space, and race, and post-colonial/decolonial work on the state, violence, and the production of disposable political subjects.

This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history, and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation between colonial Burma and Britain.

Filipino migrants constitute one of the largest global diasporas today.

This book sets out how contemporary Iranian scholars have approached the Qur?

This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1855 and held now by the British Museum.

This book offers a history of international public health spanning the colonial and post-colonial eras.

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture and cultural modernity in Kolkata from the early colonial period to the beginning of the era of India's economic liberalization.

Occurring alongside the Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights, and other identity movements of the 1960s, the Vietnam War was part of an era that rescripted gender and other social identity roles for many, if not most, Americans.

This book examines why Zimbabwean immigrants in Britain should be viewed as a product of ethno-racial identities and prejudices developed and nurtured during the colonial and post-colonial phases of Zimbabwe's history.

The idea of "e;race"e; played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought.

The European Union's (EU) fundamental principles on free movement of persons and non-discrimination have long challenged the traditional closure of the welfare state.

Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands is a study of empire, occupation and decolonization, and uncovers Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and ruleMaria Theresa (17171780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe.

A rich study exploring the use of detention without trial to facilitate imperial expansion of the British African Empire.

Originally published in 1986, this book discusses the various meanings which historians have given to the term 'American Revolution'.

When the British Empire enacted copyright law for its colonies and called it colonial, or Imperial, copyright, it had its own interests in mind.

This important book on Land Education offers critical analysis of the paths forward for education on Indigenous land.

Remembering Social Movements offers a comparative historical examination of the relations between social movements and collective memory.

Early Revenue History of Bengal and the Fifth Report, 1812 was the outcome of a series of four lectures delivered at the Dacca College by the distinguished Bengali civil servant, F.

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the 'roving colonialism' of sport mega-events.

This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period.

This book aims to reinterpret current perceptions of the Dutch Forty Years War (1672-1713), usually regarded as a struggle against the expansionism of Louis XIV, birthing the European balance of power.

The geographical diversity of the Indian diaspora has been shaped against the backdrop of the historical forces of colonialism, nationalism and neoliberal globalization.

By the 1780s in the city of Barcelona alone, more than 150 factories shipped calicoes to every major city in Spain and across the Atlantic.

This book contains original research on conflict, peacebuilding and the current state of identities and relationships in relation to the Northern Ireland conflict.