Colonialism and imperialism

First published in 1993.

To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory.

This volume is concerned with the hitherto neglected role of the humanities in the histories of the idea of race.

This book is based on original research into intimidation and violence directed at civilians by combatants during the revolutionary period in Ireland, considering this from the perspectives of the British, the Free State and the IRA.

This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand.

Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence?

In Tongues of Fire, Nancy Farriss investigates the role of language and translation in the creation of Mexican Christianity during the first centuries of colonial rule.

In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War.

From ecological disaster to partition, this is a fascinating account of the extraordinary events that have produced modern Bangladesh.

Against the long historical backdrop of 1492, Columbus, and the Conquest, Robert Stam's wide-ranging study traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples, often as a form of resistance and rebellion to colonialist or neoliberal capitalism, across an eclectic range of forms of media, arts, and social philosophy.

An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs.

The sheer variety of socio-political events and technological advancements which affect modern society, and the speed and intensity at which these events occur around the world, delivers change known as epistemic and social transformation.

This book, first published in 1974, studies the historical development of China during the Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9), a time of great intellectual, religious and political change.

Recent scholarship in political thought has closely examined the relationship between European political ideas and colonialism, particularly the ways in which canonical thinkers supported or opposed colonial practices.

Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon.

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

First published in 1827, this is an account of the revolution and its immediate aftermath in Haiti.

This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This title, originally published in 1988, examines the network of states and the political and economic systems which bound the British Empire together.

Scientific Practices in European History, 1200-1800 presents and situates a collection of extracts from both widely known texts by such figures as Copernicus, Newton, and Lavoisier, and lesser known but significant items, all chosen to provide a perspective on topics in social, cultural and intellectual history and to illuminate the concerns of the early modern period.

Under Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous national identity.

By foregrounding the voices and experiences of scholars from the Global South who have migrated to institutions in the Global North, this volume theorizes the "e;third space"e; as a unique, rich, and generative position in the Western academy.

This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping.

Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East.

In Making Modern Girls, Abosede A.

Institutional Racism explores the role of colonialism, truth, and knowledge in creating and maintaining institutional racism.

Talk of the Devil has become distinctly unfashionable.

For more than 500 years, the Portuguese built or adapted fortifications along the coasts of Africa, Asia and South America.

Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction is a textbook especially for undergraduate and graduate students of literature.

For the best part of three centuries the material well-being of the western world was dependent on slavery.

Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean (1986) is a comparative and systematic study of the legacies bequeathed by British and French colonial rule in the Caribbean.

No other decade evokes such contradictory images as the 1970s: reform and emancipation on the one hand, crisis and malaise on the other.

During the First World War, Cemal Pasha attempted to establish direct control over Syrian and thereby reaffirm Ottoman authority there through various policies of control, including the abolishment of local intermediaries.

Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive.

Ressourcenkonflikte und imperiales Prestige: Robert Kindler erzählt eine packende, mikroglobale Verflechtungsgeschichte mit Blick auf die Robbenjagd im Nordpazifik.

This book explores the multifaceted experiences of British Turks, particularly focusing on how they navigate and negotiate Islamophobia in contemporary British society.

The Wilhelmine period is a crucial period of German history and the focus of great historical controversy; greater understanding of this period is also vital to explain the rise of the Third Reich.

How is global togetherness possible?

What does postcoloniality have to do with sacramentality?

Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition.

Urban history is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field of research.

Through reference entries and primary documents, this book surveys a wide range of topics related to the history of the Spanish Empire, including past events and individuals as well as the Iberian kingdom's imperial legacy.

Illuminating the Dark Side's Spirits, Fiends, Devils, and Demons.

In the summer of 1764, Sir William Johnson (Superintendent of Indian Affairs) and over two thousand chiefs representing twenty-four First Nations met on the shores of the Niagara River to negotiate the Treaty of Niagara - an agreement between the British Crown and the Indigenous peoples.

Photographic subjects examines photography at royal celebrations during the reign of Queens Wilhelmina (1898-1948) and Juliana (1948-80), a period spanning the zenith and fall of Dutch rule in Indonesia.

While extensive attention has been paid to black youth, adult black British men are a notable omission in academic literature.