Colonialism and imperialism

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong who have settled in La Playa, California.

Europe ruled the waves for most of the modern era and even when its navies were eclipsed in size by the US force, they continued to dominate world wars.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.

This book studies the Gaidinliu uprising led by Rani Gaidinliu, a spiritual and political leader from Northeast India.

The first book in the new Postcolonialism and Religions series offers a preview of the series focus on multireligious, indigenous, and transnational scholarly voices.

Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians.

Die Schweizergarde hat im Laufe der Jahrhunderte eine unvergleichliche Rolle in der europäischen Militärgeschichte gespielt.

The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britains most humiliating defeat as an imperial power.

Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte BrontA , George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne Henson explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature.

Homelandings is a critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' based on racist and heteronormative assumptions.

This book presents the history of the British Empire as the "e;Bridge"e; for creating a Global History, especially emphasizing its connections with Asian regions.

An unimpeachable, erudite jewel of a book on the politics of memorialisation.

(Dis)connected Empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empire, the empire of Kotte in Sri Lanka, and the Catholic Monarchy of the Spanish Habsburgs.

This work explores how colonial India imagined human and divine figures to battle the nature and locus of sovereignty.

Roots of Power tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies.

Afghanistan has been a theatre of civil and international conflict for much of the twentieth century – stability is essential if there is to be peace in the Greater Middle East.

The study of Arab historiography and of the emergence of the Arab nation-state as an object of historical treatment is a matter of considerable current interest.

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This book presents corresponding images and essays of fifty early modern artefacts of encounters between European explorers and indigenous peoples, addressing relationships and material exchanges that extend beyond this framework to encompass diverse interactions across early modern societies.

This edited volume brings together essays that examine recent scholarship on the history of the Rio de la Plata region (present-day Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil) from the colonial period to the nineteenth century.

First published in 1938, the author describes the ways in which the British lived in India from the early adventurous period of the East India Company until the 1930s when modern means of travel and communication enabled the sahibs to keep in close touch with home and eschew oriental influences.

Although there have been numerous publications that argue the merit of Chinese rule over Tibet, and many more that argue for Tibetan self-determination, the world has not heard many Chinese voices supporting the latter view.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the Royal Indian Navy (RIN).

Africa's modern history is replete with different forms of encounters and conflicts.

The Caribbean history provides a rich study of the different forms of labour systems that have historically marked the politics of the coloniser and the colonised.

This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings - composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege.

Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 marked a turning point in interwar Europe.

The ocean has always been the harbinger of strangers to new shores.

This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcutta, and at the Mughal court in Delhi in the late 1830s and 1840s.

Now in its fourth edition, Introduction to Global Military History is an accessible, up-to-date account of modern warfare from the eighteenth century to the present.

Offering an examination of the diplomatic and economic regional power structures in Africa and their relationships with each other, Dawn Nagar discusses the potential and future of pan-Africanism.

This book is about the future: Ireland's future and feminism's future, approached from a moment that has recently passed.

The British West Indies (1960) examines the islands and two mainland colonies of the West Indies as they approached self-government.

This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region.

A Global History of the Developing World takes a sweeping look at the historical foundations of the problems of developing world society.

A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's lack of interest in the West.

The first ever history of India to explore the benefits institutional, political and civil of British Colonial Rule on the subcontinent.

This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping.

Ghosts of Archive draws on the discourses of deconstruction, intersectionality and archetypal psychology to mount an argument that archive is fundamentally and structurally spectral and that the work of archive is justice.

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

The Japanese occupation of both British Borneo - Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo - and Dutch Borneo in 1941 to 1945 is a much understudied subject.

This book explores the complicated dynamics of the global diaspora and its central role in times of crisis.

Originally published in 1992, Nationalisms and Sexualities addresses questions of how notions of identity are shaped by discussions of nationalism and sexuality.

Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary engages with the explosion of public commemorations in Britain and France in the wake of the First World War centenary, alongside the hyper-visibility of British and French Muslims in political and popular discourse.

What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester's Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common?

Local Government in West Africa (1964) examines colonial and independent local government in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

This book examines the development of the tiny dissident movement that was Free France in 1940 into a broad-based, popularly supported provisional government.