Colonialism and imperialism

This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history.

After the oil discoveries of the early 1930s, Bahrain rapidly became an oil exporting country with a relatively high income per capita.

State and Revolution is an indispensable guide to confronting the political and bureaucratic structures that protect the power and position of the world's elites and suffocate the lives of the vast majority of humanity.

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

The term 'progress' is a modern Western notion that life is always improving and advancing toward an ideal state.

Based upon extensive archival research and bringing to life the words and actions of extraordinary individuals from the early 20th century, this book calls into question contemporary assumptions about the appreciation of diversity as a solely postcolonial phenomenon.

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse.

In October of 1563, 18-year old Anne Mylner was herding cows near her home when she was suddenly enveloped by a white cloud that precipitated a months-long illness characterized by sleeplessness, loss of appetite, convulsions, and bodily swelling.

Nearly 16% of India's population - or over 100 million people - are untouchables.

Using John F.

Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built environment at New Delhi, a remarkably ambitious imperial capital built by the British between 1911 and 1931.

Whilst much scholarly work has been focused on Spain's American colonies, much less is known about Spanish colonization of the Pacific.

Museums as Ritual Sites critically examines the assumption that museums inherently function as ritual sites and, in turn, are poised to exert influence on cultural and societal change.

This book identifies and describes the first stage in the advent and growth of English education in India.

Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy studies Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) in relation to maritime criticism.

Not every lie sounds untrue.

This seminal work now available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new preface is a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory.

This book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation.

This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical fiction of colonial India.

This important anthology provides students and teachers with voices of social and global justice that have been marginalized or forgotten by history.

There has been a shift in the way that we understand the forces behind imperialism.

Modern colonization is generally defined as a process by which a state settles and dominates a foreign land and people.

Bringing to bear the latest developments across various areas of research and disciplines, this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and large Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia.

Transnational mobility in the EU has become a key factor for supranational integration, equal life chances and socioeconomic prosperity.

British attitudes towards Arab unity have frequently been a source of controversy in the Middle East.

From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Australian settler colonists mobilised their unique settler experiences to develop their own vision of what 'empire' was and could be.

This book is about the future: Ireland's future and feminism's future, approached from a moment that has recently passed.

The Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy is a multidisciplinary collection of writings by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world.

The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur's Hindu dances in Australia.

First published in 1938, the author describes the ways in which the British lived in India from the early adventurous period of the East India Company until the 1930s when modern means of travel and communication enabled the sahibs to keep in close touch with home and eschew oriental influences.

This book offers an intervention into the process of decolonization through the re-subjectification of the settler subject.

The book reviews and examines students' motivations and emotions in Chinese science classrooms.

This book celebrates the career of the eminent historian of the British Empire John M.

This book, first published in 1956, contains the stuff of other people's memories.

This book examines the reasons for which political parties engage with transnational communities and consider the engagement of expatriate communities to be of value or, otherwise, for domestic politics.

The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to places outside the country raises a number of questions- about the networks that enable their mobility, the aspirations that motivate them, what they give back to their home regions, and how their provincial home worlds engage with and absorb the consequent transnational flows of money, ideas, influence and care.

Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine: Historische Einordnung und geschichtspolitische FolgenDer russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine hat die europäische Sicherheitsarchitektur grundlegend verändert.

Zahi Zalloua provides the first examination of Palestinian identity from the perspective of Indigeneity and Critical Black Studies.

Sierra Leone's unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of historical investigation since the 1950s.

People often overlook the uncanny nature of homecomings, writing off the experience of finding oneself at home in a strange place or realizing that places from our past have grown strange.

From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, many individuals were motivated by their religious creeds to give.

Heinrich Von Treitschke was a prolific German historian and political writer during the nineteenth century.

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.

This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy.

This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa.

Who was Alexander von Humboldt?