Colonialism and imperialism

This book presents an overview of critical developments surrounding the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule.

This book explores the history and agendas of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) through its activities in South Asia.

In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century.

In recent years a certain amount of disillusion with the Commonwealth has been expressed in Britain and elsewhere.

This book critically explores Global South perspectives, examining marginalised voices and issues whilst challenging the supremacy of Global North perspectives in literature.

China's rapid economic growth has drawn attention to the Chinese diasporic communities and the multiple networks that link Chinese individuals and organizations throughout the world.

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

This book examines how modern Western history has been shaped by the rise and fall of the great European empires.

Andrew Francis''s Culture and Commerce in Conrad''s Asian Fiction is the first book-length study of commerce in Conrad''s work.

From postcolonial, interdisciplinary, and transnational perspectives, this collection of original essays looks at the experience of Spain's empire in the Atlantic and the Pacific and its cultural production.

This book utilises a human development and capability approach to examine the role of higher education in the context of Tanzania.

This is the first book-length study to focus primarily on the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism.

This book discusses the colonial history of Tribe-British relations in India.

In the last half century, economics has taken over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy in both domestic and international contexts.

Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World examines the changing nature of the Chinese diasporas in a transnational world and its concomitant implications for Chinese diaspora studies internationally.

This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins, development and nature of state power.

This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India.

In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule.

The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial crisisWhy did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "e;all men are created equal"e;?

Explores how the British Empire responded to the environmental challenges of the world''s largest tidal delta.

This book explores the thought of Olive Schreiner, the internationally famous writer, feminist theorist, social critic, opponent of imperialism and nationalism, and analyst of violence and war, best known for her novels and short stories, articles and critical commentaries, and her feminist treatise, Women and Labour.

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This book focuses on Africa's challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978.

American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of U.

Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories.

Providing an accessible and comprehensive overview, The Story of the Salem Witch Trials explores the events between June 10 and September 22, 1692, when nineteen people were hanged, one was pressed to death and over 150 were jailed for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.

This book is an exploration of how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s.

The focus of this volume is Britain's trans-Pacific empire.

This volume offers a profoundly new interpretation of the impact of modern diasporas on democracy, challenging the orthodox understanding that ties these two concepts to a bounded form of territory.

Unique in its global and interdisciplinary scope, this collection will bring together comparative insights across European, Ottoman, Japanese, and US imperial contexts while spanning colonized spaces in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia.

In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory.

This book, first published in 1994, provides a comprehensive treatment of a crucial set of geopolitical issues from a region where political developments are observed with great care and some trepidation by the rest of the world.

Originally published in 1922, An Introduction to World Politics, was published at a particularly interesting time in international relations, just a few short years after the first world war.

As a Catholic priest, Grandier was an influential figure in the Loudun community and local government.

In this fascinating story of colonial competition around Lake Rudolf, a remote body of water in northern Kenya, Pascal James Imperato examines the political and diplomatic aspects of colonial competition for the lake as well as the many expeditions that traveled there.

In this title, originally published in 1920, Leonard Woolf traces the history of economic imperialism and explores the relations of Europe and Africa since 1876.

This original volume examines the collaboration between East Timorese and international staff in the rebuilding of the education sector during the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) 1999-2002.

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression.

In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers - Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a fur trapper - reveal the diverse world of early America.

This anthology collects developing scholarship that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks.

How do individuals inscribe their spiritual identities and diasporic ethnicities in the city?

South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of apartheid.

"e;Kehinde Andrews is a crucial voice walking in a proud tradition of Black radical criticism and action"e; Akala"e;An uncompromising account of the roots of racism today"e; Kimberl Crenshaw "e;This clear-eyed analysis insists upon the revolutionary acts of freedom we will need to break out of these systems of violence"e; Ibram X.

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

This book evaluates the prosecution of British counter-insurgency operations during the Cyprus Revolt of 1955-1959.

This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was permitted, and the meanings that can be attached to such narratives.

Slavery was a large-scale process that put its mark on the African landscape in tangible ways-for example, through the capture, transfer, and imprisonment of captives and through the avoidance strategies that vulnerable communities used against slaving.

This volume explores the formative and expressive dynamics of Khoesan identity during a crucial period of incorporation as an underclass into Cape colonial society.

Why are we speaking English?