Colonialism and imperialism

This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which it does by explaining the saying 'a person is a person through other persons'.

First Published in 1998.

For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States.

Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir.

Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.

This book guides students as they explore how white identities are forged using both sociological and psycho-social ideas.

The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book.

This volume seeks to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact, and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods.

In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of its overseas colonies.

This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group affirmation and settlement, or "e;location.

Whiteness is not innate - it is learned.

A History of Colombian Literature explores the genealogy of Colombian literature from the colonial period to the present day.

This book is an introduction to Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, giant of Latin American sociology.

This book explores the Kuki uprising against the British Empire during the First World War in the northeast frontier of India (then the Assam-Burma frontier).

This book offers new insight into the end of the British Empire in the Middle East.

In the aftermath of World War I, the British Empire was hit by two different crises on opposite sides of the world--the Jallianwala Bagh, or Amritsar, Massacre in the Punjab and the Croke Park Massacre, the first 'Bloody Sunday', in Ireland.

The subject of this work is the process by which steamship and railway lines for India were launched.

Integrates Native American perspectives into American history Native Voices is a source reader that covers the entire span of Native American history.

First Published in 1996.

This book examines British responses to genocide and atrocity in the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I.

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the question of whether globalization has amplified or muted processes of communalism.

This study on Dr.

Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to France's Revolutionary past to negotiate Algeria's struggle for decolonization from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile's expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed.

Explores how the International Colonial Institute, a pervasive colonial think tank established in 1893, reformed colonialism to make empires last.

Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues.

This collection of essays honours David Fieldhouse, latterly Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge and a foremost authority on the economics of the modern British Empire.

Since the demise of Soviet power, the newly independent republics are redefining their identities and their relations with the world at large.

Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain's colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations.

How should constitutional design respond to the opportunities and challenges raised by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural differences, and do so in ways that promote democracy, social justice, peace and stability?

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Durer's depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outside his Western European milieu.

This book offers the first in-depth study of three major Hong Kong public cultural architecture works, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Shatin Town Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC), built in the late-colonial years.

First published in 2008.

The Zulu War of 1879 was the most brutal and controversial British imperial conflict of the 19th century.

The main objective of this edited collection is to provide an insight into key facets of contemporary research and scholarship on race and ethnicity.

Both architecture and anthropology emerged as autonomous theoretical disciplines in the 18th-century enlightenment.

Israelis with a Russian accent have been part of Israel's social, cultural and economic landscape for over 20 years.

The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the land that produced Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Gujarat has been at the centre-stage of South Asia's political iconography for more than a century.

The Routledge Handbook on Africana Criminologies plugs a gaping hole in criminological literature, which remains dominated by work on Europe and settler-colonial locations at the expense of neocolonial locations and at a huge cost to the discipline that remains relatively underdeveloped.

This handbook offers a unique decolonial take on the field of Critical Whiteness Studies by rehistoricising and re-spatialising the study of bodies and identities in the world system of coloniality.

The only textbook to survey the major Atlantic, Asian and African empires of Europe, from 1700 through decolonization in 1945.

Studies of racism against migrants have recently attempted to move away from the presumed dichotomy between 'white' and 'Others', yet the focus of much research remains predominantly trained on 'white' people racializing 'Others': whether Black, Asian or Muslim.

Joan-Pau Rubies brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture.

This book analyses the human dimension during and after the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

Globalisation and migration have created a vibrant yet dysphoric world fraught with different, and sometimes competing, practices and discourses.

In The French in the Pacific World Annick Foucrier has brought together an important set of studies on the French presence in the Pacific up to the start of the 20th century.

Wunderbar Country (1982) examines the experiences of Australia's second largest migrant community, the Germans.

The negative legacy of the British empire is often thought of in terms of war and economic exploitation, while the positive contribution is associated with the establishment of good governance and effective, modern institutions.

'A brilliant work of intellectual interpretation by our foremost historian of Enlightenment ideas.

Edward VIII.