Colonialism and imperialism

This book analyzes the stance of international communism towards nationality, anti-colonialism, and racial equality as defined by the Communist International (Comintern) during the interwar period.

This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of 'mothering' that took place in Atlantic slave societies.

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume covers the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, the selection of essays here look at the reasons for the causes of slavery and serfdom; slavery in Africa; the development of the slave trade; the demographic situation in Latin America; and European attitudes to slavery as an institution.

When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity.

This book tracks the phases of Singapore's economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country's future.

Colonial rule distorts a colony's economy and its society, and British rule was no exception.

Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India.

Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon.

This edited volume brings new perspectives on the topic maritime archaeology of the slave trade in the Caribbean.

Irish Kingship in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries examines the power of medieval Irish kings but treats 'power' as a complex concept worthy of study in its own right.

This book is a critical biography of Baba Padmanji (1831-1906), a firebrand native Christian missionary, ideologue, and litterateur from 19th-century Bombay Presidency.

Women in the Modern History of Libya features histories of Libyan women exploring the diversity of cultures, languages and memories of Libya from the age of the Empires to the present.

From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark.

Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India.

Race and Transatlantic Identities provides a rich overview of the complex relationship between the construction of race and transatlantic identity as expressed in a variety of cultural forms, refracted through different disciplinary and critical perspectives, and manifested at different historical moments.

This book considers how contemporary British children's books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public.

Until today, Western, European sociology contributes to the social reality of colonial modernity, and gender knowledge is a paradigmatic example of it.

Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised?

International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and their ethics and values, matter with regard to a world increasingly shaped by climate breakdown?

First published in 1832, this work was at the time considered an authoritative account of the beliefs and practices of the Musalmans of India.

A unique look at the key role Free French Africa played during World War II to help the Allied cause.

How do different gender identities interact with the key challenge of decolonising higher education?

Colonialism has three foundational concerns - violence, territory, and population control - all of which rest on racialist discourse and practice.

A pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present.

From the mid 18th century up till after memories of the Napoleonic wars and the glories of 'Nelson's navy' had faded, the Royal Navy was the bulwark of Britain's defence and the safeguard of trade and imperial expansion.

Words like ,colonialism, and ,empire, were once frowned upon in the U.

Drawing on critical race theory, critical race feminism, critical multicultural analysis, and intertextuality this book examines how slavery is represented in contemporary children's picture books.

This book aims to reinterpret current perceptions of the Dutch Forty Years War (1672-1713), usually regarded as a struggle against the expansionism of Louis XIV, birthing the European balance of power.

This provocative book challenges frequently voiced assertions regarding museums as necessary and valued modern institutions.

The slow retreat of the British empire in the century after the First World War has had dramatic implications for Britain itself, its former colonies and the global balance of power.

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought.

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume looks at the eighteenth century, which saw the high point of the Atlantic slave trade.

First published in 2004.

Soon after the guns in Belgium and France had signalled the commencement of what would become the world's single most destructive conflict to date, the British, Ottoman, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, French and Belgian Empires were at war.

The sources in this volume focus on Great Britain's moral, financial, and diplomatic interventions and ambitions in Latin America.

Britain's famous overseas civil services - the Colonial Administrative Service, the Indian Civil Service and the Sudan Political Service - no longer exist as a major and sought-after career for Britain's graduates.

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

This book presents an innovative investigation of the policies of the Indian Congress during the late colonial period.

South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years.

This edited volume consolidates research from 32 countries in order to address the implications of the recent global wave of migration on educational opportunity and assess links between migration and bullying in Europe and further afield.

Slavery in the Twentieth Century, first published in 1986, draws together all the forms of slavery in their modern guises - in the far recesses of Africa and Arabia, in the industrial towns of Italy, the factories and mines of South America, and in the prison farms of the United States.

First published in 1905, this volume on the Cotton Industry emerged in the context of Joseph Chamberlain's proposed Tariff Reform and provided an academic perspective on the industry.

This book critically examines the socio-economic impacts of out-migration on households and gender dynamics in rural northern India.

On October 1922 Mussolini became head of the Italian government, a situation that would last for twenty years.

The concept of 'uneven and combined development' was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia's distinctive experience of modernity and revolution.

This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender.

Policy-makers tend to view the residential segregation of minority ethnic groups in a negative light as it is seen as an obstacle to their integration.

This book examines the history of the Cyprus Tribute, and takes a longer and broader view of the issue than previous studies.