Colonialism and imperialism

Polish Immigrant Organizations in Germany examines the situation of Polish immigrant organizations in Germany.

This book takes an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and transnational approach, presenting work that will provide the reader with a nuanced and in-depth understanding of the role of globalization in the sexual and reproductive lives of gendered bodies in the 21st century.

Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies begins with the reversal in Irish fortunes after the 2008 global economic crash.

When tourists travel, they often seek the exotic.

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

In this eye-witness history of Barbados, Ligon gives perhaps the earliest account of attempts at sugar manufacture.

Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions, The British Empire c1857-1967 has been approved by AQA and matched to the new 2015 specification.

Die Wanderausstellungen des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung zu den Verbrechen der Wehrmacht in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus waren emotionale Kristallisationspunkte, an denen die Diskurse der Kriegs- und Nachkriegsgenerationen in zahlreichen Debatten sichtbar geworden sind.

The Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was the longest running major armed struggle in the history of the Arabian Peninsula, Britain's last classic colonial war in the region, and one of the highlights of the Cold War in the Middle East.

The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is not unique, whatever the media may suggest.

This book examines how the Crown has performed as Head of State across the UK and post war Commonwealth during times of political crisis.

This volume offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states.

Germany's imperial era (1871-1918) continues to attract both scholars and the general public alike.

Soviet postcolonial studies is an emerging field of critical inquiry, with its locus of interest in colonial aspects of the Soviet experience in the USSR and beyond.

This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic.

Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity and women and men's subjection, emasculation and empowerment.

This evaluation of the work of a colonial administration uses an analysis of the policies employed in the fields of education, administration, justice and agriculture.

This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdeveloped countries) and the effects of all these on the life of the British people.

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.

Settlers feature in many protracted territorial disputes and ethnic conflicts around the world.

This book uses a combination of business history and political economy to chart the development of Indian business organisation from independence in 1947 through to the twenty-first century.

Originally published in 1989.

This anthology vastly expands our understanding of the much-misconstructed history of early modern Bengal and seeks to redress the misconception that economic decline in Bengal set in even before the British conquest of the region.

This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society.

Using interviews as primary sources this book shines a light on the infamous Portuguese massacre of Wiriyamu in colonial Mozambique in 1972.

The issues surrounding Hong Kong's global position and international links grow increasingly complex by the day as the process of Hong Kong's transformation from a British colony to a Chinese Special Administration Region unfolds.

From the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 to the winning of independence in 1947, this book traces the complex and often troubled relationship between anti-imperialist campaigners in Britain and in India.

This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria's communist movement.

This book offers an intellectual history of colonial Buganda, using previously unseen archives to recast the end of empire in East Africa.

This book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation.

This edited volume brings transnational feminisms in conversation with intersectional and decolonial approaches.

Focusing on the Portuguese Empire, this book examines colonial press issued in "e;metropolitan"e; spaces and in colonies, disclosing dissonant narratives and problematizations of colonial empires.

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

Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the so-called 'War on Terror'.

Drawing on archival and ethnographic work, this book analyzes how indigeneity, Christianity and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Amazon throughout the 20th century.

Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of eastern Canada.

A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.

Palestine of the Jews (1919) examines the history of Jewish Palestine, from 4,000 years ago to the early twentieth century and the Balfour Declaration.

This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract "e;imagined community"e; but also represents embodied cultural and discursive practices.

First published in 1963.

This book focuses on the departure of Britain's 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societies.

Empire building in British India was inseparably tied to the processes of frontier-making and the creation of boundaries.

Based on archives from governments, parties, organisations and individuals, this book investigates the relationship between the British left and Algerian liberation movements during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962).

This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, contributing significantly to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime.

The nineteenth century is notable for its newly proclaimed emperors, from Franz I of Austria and Napoleon I in 1804, through Agustin of Mexico, Pedro I of Brazil, Napoleon III of France, Maximilian of Mexico, and Wilhelm I of Germany, to Victoria, empress of India, in 1876.

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This book, first published in 1994, provides a comprehensive treatment of a crucial set of geopolitical issues from a region where political developments are observed with great care and some trepidation by the rest of the world.

Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world - often described as a kind of heaven on earth.

This volume views the study of disease as essential to understanding the key historical developments underpinning the foundation of contemporary Indian Ocean World (IOW) societies.

First published in 1987.