Colonialism and imperialism

This book critically examines the socio-economic impacts of out-migration on households and gender dynamics in rural northern India.

This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts black intraracial relationships.

A collection of the country's most respected historians, philosophers, and theologians examines the role of religion in the founding of the United States.

Initially, the 1960s was a time of understandable optimism.

Historically, the Atlantic Ocean has served to define the relationship between the so-called worlds of the 'Old' and the 'New'.

In The End of Peacekeeping, Marsha Henry makes use of feminist, postcolonial, and anti-militarist frameworks to expose peacekeeping as an epistemic power project in need of abolition.

Although later than the Portuguese in reaching the coasts of Asia, the Dutch became in the 17th and 18th centuries the most important of the European nations engaged in the Asian trade - in terms both of the quantity and value of the cargoes shipped, and the number of ports involved.

This book offers a unique perspective on the colonial roots of modern science, technology, and medicine (STM) in South Asia.

Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included.

From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways.

When Italian forces landed on the shores of Libya in 1911, many in Italy hailed it as an opportunity to embrace a Catholic national identity through imperial expansion.

In 1923 the Turkish government, under its new leader Kemal Ataturk, signed a renegotiated Balkan Wars treaty with the major powers of the day and Greece.

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

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation.

During the first half of the twentieth century, European countries witnessed the arrival of hundreds of thousands of colonial soldiers fighting in European territory (First and Second World War and Spanish Civil War) and coming into contact with European society and culture.

Flagships of Imperialism is the first scholarly monograph on the history of the P&O shipping company, and the first history of P&O to pay due attention to the context of nineteenth century imperial politics which so significantly shaped the company's development.

This book aspires to establish a dialogue among the studies of sustainable development, global environmental politics, comparative regionalism, and area studies of Eurasia.

This definitive encyclopedia, originally published in 1983 and now available as an ebook for the first time, covers the American Revolution, comes in two volumes and contains 865 entries on the war for American independence.

Colonised subjects can play roles that sustain the power structure of coloniality.

This book adds to global knowledge of pathways out of crime (desistance) by exploring the desistance narratives of 15 women with histories of imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand (10 of whom identify as Maori, New Zealand's Indigenous population).

A provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.

South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized.

This book is the first of its kind to showcase a range of fresh and expert perspectives on decolonising history education in Australia.

The external economy of British North America has attracted considerable scholarly attention in the last two generations, and the papers reprinted here, in this second collection from Jacob Price, make important contributions to quantification, conceptualisation and debate.

When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp.

This book provides a new interpretation of the economic dimension of the Cold War.

This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture.

This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early modern world.

Originally published in 1971, The Royal Demesne in English History shows how Norman and Angevin kings were able to regard the whole of their English kingdom as their royal demesne in the continental medieval sense.

Feminism and Empire establishes the foundational impact that Britain's position as leading imperial power had on the origins of modern western feminism.

This book expands the current axiology of theism literature by assessing the axiological status of alternative conceptions of God and the divine.

Die Garnisonkirche in Potsdam – einst ein prächtiges Symbol preußischer Macht und architektonischer Meisterleistung – wurde im Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstört.

The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics.

Migration and cosmopolitanism are said to be complementary.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of South Asian readaptations of race in vernacular languages.

This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India.

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

An incisive analysis of religious conflict in South Asia, which it is argued arises out of weak political and state structures.

In her in-depth study of Harriet Martineau's writings on the evolution of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, Deborah A.

In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade.

This work spans the development of civilizations from their remotest origins to the present day.

In 1967 Israel occupied the western section of Syria's Golan Heights, expelling 130,000 residents and leaving only a few thousand Arab inhabitants clustered in several villages.

Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized.

Inner Empire explores the impact of imperial cultures on the landscapes and urban environments of the British Isles from the sixteenth century through to the twentieth century.

Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography's seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity.

Europe and the Third World provides a schematic historical analysis of the relations between Europe and the extra-European periphery within the twin contexts of global economic inequality and global disparities in political power.