Colonialism and imperialism

Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world.

On December 5th, 1920, in Patna, the Dasnami sannyasi Sahajanand Saraswati encountered Mahatma Gandhi for the first time.

This 5-volume set tracks the various legal, administrative and social documentation on the progress of Indian education from 1780 to 1947.

Impossible Refuge brings the perspectives of refugees into rapidly emerging dialogues about contemporary situations of mass forced migration, asking: what does it mean to be displaced?

A practical guide to the protection and management of ecosystems against invasions by non-indigenous plant species.

This book explores British post-colonial foreign policy towards Kenya from 1963 to 1980.

In a lively critique of how international and comparative political economy misjudge the relationship between global markets and states, this book demonstrates the central place of the American state in today's world of globalized finance.

Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them.

Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire.

More than other Atlantic societies, Latin America is shackled to its past.

Rather than a centralized state, Iran in the nineteenth century was a delicate balance between tribal groups, urban merchant communities, religious elites, and an autocratic monarchy.

Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, this book explores how far imperial culture penetrated antipodean city institutions.

During the First World War, Britain was the epicentre of global mass internment and deportation operations.

This study uses the private papers of Glubb Pasha to rethink the end of Britain''s imperial presence in the Middle East.

This text argues that Nietzsche's idea of invalid policy that is believed to be valid and Heidegger's concept of doubt as the reason for a representation are essentially the same idea.

Seymour Drescher's regular, deeply-thought and carefully nuanced arguments have periodically reshaped how we think of the subject of the history of slavery itself.

Up until the advent of Nasser and the 1956 War, a thriving and diverse Jewry lived in Egypt - mainly in the two cities of Alexandria and Cairo, heavily influencing the social and cultural history of the country.

Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age.

The issues surrounding Hong Kong's global position and international links grow increasingly complex by the day as the process of Hong Kong's transformation from a British colony to a Chinese Special Administration Region unfolds.

A fully illustrated study of the colourful regiments raised for France's late 19th-century colonial wars in Africa and Vietnam.

Cosmopolitanism, as an intellectual and political project, has failed.

Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves.

This book analyzes the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early colonial Bengal.

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today.

The Indian National Army (INA) trials of 1945-46 have generally been given short shrift by historians in their cataloguing of the Indian freedom movement.

This book investigates the concept of colonial globalization to show how knowledge, information, technology, capital and labour have the potential to move freely across the world.

This book, first published in English in 1964, examines a wide range of topics concerning society in the Arab East.

When the War of Independence ended in 1783, many doubted the ability of Americans to build a nation.

This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on what religion can contribute to migrant encounters.

This handbook presents cutting-edge research on Asian transnationalism written by experts in the areas of migration, diaspora, ethnicity, gender, language, education, politics, media, art, popular culture and literature from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives.

The Unfinished Song of Francisco Urondo: When Poetry is Not Enough is a comprehensive, well-written, documented, and carefully developed study of the literary work and life of Francisco Urondo, an Argentine poet, intellectual, activist, cultural promoter, revolutionary, and clandestine guerilla member who died in 1976 fighting for a cause in which he believed, against the oppressive Argentine Military Junta.

This work shows the extent to which the shipping of Africans to the Americas continued after the Abolition Act of 1807.

This is a collection of essays on the life and writing of W.

Queeda Mantle was born on a March day in 1933.

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic values and practices that have shaped the contemporary state of English language education in Chile, offering a space for a transformative vision that prioritises pedagogical practices grounded in (g)localised methodologies and epistemologies.

The Bandung Conference was the seminal event of the twentieth century that announced, envisaged and mobilized for the prospect of a decolonial global order.

Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India.

At Independence in 1980, Julius Nyerere called Zimbabwe 'the jewel of Africa', and cautioned its new leaders not to tarnish it.

This book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised.

Today, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment that fractured societies both then and now.

A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.

Medicine has always been a significant tool of an empire.

The aim of this first volume in the series "e;The Expansion of Latin Europe"e; is to sketch the outlines of medieval expansion, illustrating some of the major topics that historians have examined in the course of demonstrating the links between medieval and modern experiences.

The first Australian cricket tour to India possesses an inherent intrigue that, for inexplicable reasons, has fallen into obscurity.

Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; the U.

The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world.

This is the first book to examine the lives and works of women photographers active in the settler colonial nations of the Pacific Rim from 1857-1930.

Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century.

The First Imperial Age explores with subtlety and vigour the origins of Europe's rise to world hegemony in the early modern period, in a survey which brings together a huge range of Geoffrey Scammell's own and other recent research.