Colonialism and imperialism

This book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to locate themselves within the evolving Indian nation.

This book explores the politics of gendered labor migration in Southeast Asia through the stories and perspectives of Indonesian and Filipina women presented in films, fiction, and performance to show how the emotionality of these texts contribute to the emergence and vitality of women's social movements in Southeast Asia.

First published in 1972.

This book explores the ramifications of 1917, arguing that it was a cataclysmic year in world history.

From the 12th century onwards merchants from the north Italian and southern French towns were able to take advantage of Christian conquests in southern Italy, Sicily and the Levant to penetrate and dominate the markets of these regions and of North Africa.

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This book explores the multiplicity of women's experiences in the Cambodian genocide during the four-year rule of the Khmer Rouge.

This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to "e;be a man"e; in societies influenced by the ideals of Victorian upper and middle classes.

When Canada hosted the 1976 Montreal Olympics, few Canadian spectators waved flags in the stands.

A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023.

Focusing on the interconnections of the Atlantic world from 1450-1900, The Atlantic Connection examines the major themes of Atlantic history.

Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways that were recognizably 'English'.

Colonial Planning (1958) breaks new ground in its study of colonial development plans on a comparative basis.

In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy's second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era-the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps.

In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships.

From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company.

From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism in the United States and the Caribbean.

How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West?

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America.

In recent years the subject of satanic ritual abuse (SRA) has incited widespread controversy focused primarily on whether or not such abuse actually occurs.

Originally published in 1933, and written by "e;America's historian"e;, James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American nation encompassing economics, religion, social change and politics from settlement to the Civil War.

As imperial political authority was increasingly challenged, sometimes with violence, locally recruited police forces became the front-line guardians of alien law and order.

East Africa (1971) examines the century from 1870 that saw the emergence of East Africa from an ancient isolation into the modern world.

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

This book examines approaches to reconciliation and peacebuilding in settler colonial, post-conflict, and divided societies.

A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.

Gregor Schöllgen führt in seinem Band durch eine komplexe Epoche, die von den 1880er Jahren bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg reicht.

Decolonisation after Democracy addresses the provocative idea that we need to rid higher education of lingering forms of colonial knowledge.

This book explores different kinds of colonialism and how these result in differing levels of economic prosperity and social well-being.

This book concerns the mass deportation of Poles and others to Siberia following the failed 1863 Polish Insurrection.

A detailed look at how South Africa's museum present the nation's past, and how they can serve as a lens for examining changes in South African society at large.

An important new study of the information systems of the British empire and of how knowledge was used to maintain empire.

Recent years have seen a significant shift in the study of new religious movements.

On the eve of the twentieth century, Joseph Gallieni and Hubert Lyautey claimed to have devised a new approach to the consolidation of colonial acquisitions.

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

The Ojibwe or Anishinaabe are a native American people of the northern Great Lakes region.

Libya is a typical example of a colonial or external creation.

Bailey describes how the Sea of Okhotsk area became integrated into a world system of economic and cultural ties between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 examines the trajectory of the Moroccan experimental novel and makes a link between its emergence in the early-mid 1970s and the Arab defeat in the six-day war with Israel in 1967.

By focusing on the role of community courts in Mozambique, this book offers a postcolonial perspective on legal pluralism.

White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire.

Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India.

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is a key event in the shaping of our own times.

A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture.

Originally published in 1989.

With original case studies of a more than a dozen countries, Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia offers new perspectives on how both European monarchs who reigned over Asian colonies and Asian royal houses adapted to decolonisation.

This key new introduction, by one of the leading exponents in the field, explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of post-colonial theory.

The development, and costs, of the idea that God has a special plan for America.

This volume calls attention to the worst massacre of Christians that has occurred on the African continent, a 1937 attack on the monastic village of Debre Libanos that has previously been hidden from public knowledge.