Colonialism and imperialism

Imperial Networks investigates the discourses and practices of British colonialism.

In this remarkable book, the oft-told narrative of Sir Walter Raleigh is blown apart through the chance discovery of hitherto neglected Dutch correspondence found in a Swedish archive.

The German Colonial Experience provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I.

This book tells the story of French interaction with Vietnam and the neighboring region, which began with the French seizure of Cochin-China and Tonking in the 19th century under Emperor Tu Duc and ended with their humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

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Within a generation of Columbus's first landfall in the Caribbean, Spain ruled an empire in Central and South America many times its size, while, in stark contrast, the English had only succeeded in settling the banks of one waterway and several bays.

Colonial hierarchy and race fueled rapid militarization in the British Empire that shaped the violent course of the twentieth century.

For a brief period, the attention of the international community has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.

This book is focused on the transcultural memory of the Mediterranean region and the different ways it is articulated by contemporary art practices and museum projects linked to migrations, exile, diaspora and transnationality.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of South Asian readaptations of race in vernacular languages.

This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation's colonial past.

Legal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples.

Subsistence crops - the grains and other food items necessary to a people's survival - were a central preoccupation of the early modern state.

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery.

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This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues.

In 1891 a major anti-British revolt erupted in the northeast Indian princely state of Manipur after a dangerously miscalculated attempt by the Government of India to assert its authority in the wake of a palace coup.

This book sheds new light on the work of Jean-Francois Champollion by uncovering a constellation of epistemological, political, and material conditions that made his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs possible.

This timely work investigates the possibility of unyoking and decolonising African university knowledges from colonial relics.

Bengalis have been great travellers for centuries and are famous for recreating their way of life wherever they go.

This is the first book to examine football (soccer) through the lens of diaspora studies.

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord – ein Name, der bis heute als Synonym für diplomatische Brillanz und strategisches Geschick gilt.

Bourgeois Radicals explores the NAACP''s key role in the liberation of Africans and Asians across the globe even as it fought Jim Crow at home.

Nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals were faced with a dilemma.

This memoir chronicles the journey of an academic, tracing a path from primary school in Zambia to a career in higher education as a mathematician and educational leader.

Considers how notions of Britishness were constructed and promoted through architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature.

In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones.

Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers - contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches.

Masters and servants explores the politics of colonial mastery and domestic servitude in the neighbouring British colonies of Singapore and Darwin.

The Truth About Empirecomes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can ascertain it, matters; that our decades of painstaking research make us worth listening to; and that our authority as leading professionals should count for something in todays polarised debates over Britains imperial past.

In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American women and white traders and trappers.

The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 signified the end of the Vietnam War.

Initially, the 1960s was a time of understandable optimism.

This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides.

The crowning achievement of Afro-Colombian author Manuel Zapata Olivella, Chango, Decolonizing the African Diaspora depicts the African American experience from a perspective of gods who stand over the world and watch.

While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded.

The idea of "e;race"e; played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought.

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

At the height of her imperial power Britain clashed with Russia at many points from Turkey to China.

This book combines an analysis of the ideas and policies that governed the British experience of decolonization.

Nancy Christie innovatively and significantly transforms the writing of Quebec history between 1763 and 1837 by locating Quebec within new British practices of imperial governance asserted in the wake of the Seven Years War.

In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy.

Neutrality in World History provides a cogent synthesis of five hundred years of neutrality in global history.

Economic, political, and ethnic favoritism are common themes in the historiography of colonial Africa.

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

This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule.

Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts explores the phenomenon of spirit possession, focusing on the religious and cultural functions it serves as a means of communication.