Colonialism and imperialism

This book investigates whether African cultures can appropriate some useful aspects of Western cultures, or whether doing so risks falling into the metaphysical empire and diluting African identity.

While the world's oceans cover more than seventy percent of its surface, the sea has largely vanished as an object of enquiry in International Relations (IR), being treated either as a corollary of land or as time.

Originally published in 1967 this book tells the full story of the breach between the United States and Great Britain and the pivotal role played by Benjamin Franklin in both the declaration of independence and the American Treaty.

The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 provides a comprehensive history of this complex period and explores the contrasting worlds of the British and the French Empires as they strove to develop new societies in the Americas.

This book examines the concept of piracy as an instrument for the advancement of legal, economic, and political agendas associated with early modern imperial conflicts in the Caribbean.

This book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to locate themselves within the evolving Indian nation.

Migration Literature in Translation explores the unique case of Latinx literature translated into Spanish, drawing from Latinx studies, sociology, political philosophy and cultural studies.

In the age of climate change, the possibility that dramatic environmental transformations might cause the dislocation of millions of people has become not only a matter for scientific speculation or science-fiction narratives, but the object of strategic planning and military analysis.

The years 1790 to 1830 saw Britain engage in an extensive period of war-waging and empire-building which transformed its position as an imperial state, established its reputation as a distinctive military power and secured naval preeminence.

This edition retains Browne's original introduction with its lucid exposition of events from 1858 to 1867.

The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse.

The essays in this volume have been written by leading experts in their respective fields and bring together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians.

The Benin Bronzes are among the British Museums most prized possessions.

*SHORTLISTED FOR A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD*From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications'Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding' NAOMI KLEIN'Mishra has made a powerful contribution to the moral history of the world' ANDREW O'HAGAN'Urgent' HISHAM MATAR'Brilliant' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEMemory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe s civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era.

Highlighting how systemic inequities in Norwegian higher education are perpetuated through colonial legacies, monocultures of knowledge, and a lack of critical engagement, this book offers an intersectional analysis that identifies issues and complexities in the domains of pedagogy, epistemology, research, curriculum, and support services.

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War contributes to the imperial turn in First World War studies.

Exploring the concept of 'colonial cultures,' this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies.

In October 1962, the world went to the brink of Armageddon.

In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns.

An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs.

For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 to 1708 has been a despised figure, whose alleged transgressions ranged from raiding the public treasury to scandalizing his subjects by parading through the streets of New York City dressed as a woman.

This book charts and traces state-mandated or state-encouraged "e;patriotic"e; histories that have recently emerged in many places around the globe.

This volume explores the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa.

A crime novel, at once disturbing and perversely comforting, factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the 'open and shut case' of its narrative form.

Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis.

The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests - and central themes - of modern history.

This collection contributes to an understanding of queer theory as a "e;queer share,"e; addressing the urgent need to redistribute resources in a university world characterized by stark material disparities and embedded gendered, racial, national, and class inequities.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues of international law.

Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China examines the experiences of a group of persons known officially and collectively in the PRC as "e;domestic Overseas Chinese"e;.

Manifesting America explores how Native American and Mexican American writers use various kinds of nonfiction to challenge the ideology of manifest destiny.

This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation.

Modern legal history is increasingly interested in exploring the development of legal systems from novel and nuanced approaches.

The evil eye has received considerable attention in the literature of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and medicine.

An Age of Hubris is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century, chronicling a world punctuated by war and millenarian eruptions, and the steady encroachment of settler land hunger and colonial hegemony.

Frederick Douglass spent four months in Ireland at the end of 1845 that proved to be, in his own words, 'transformative'.

Americanized Spanish Culture explores the intricate transcultural dialogue between Spain and the United States since the late 19th century.

This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do.

This book is the first publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future, which was organised in June 2013, by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname.

For more than a century, scholars have believed that Italian humanism was predominantly civic in outlook.

This book explores the experiences of 'Indo-Mozambicans,' citizens and residents of Mozambique who can trace their origins to the Indian subcontinent, a region affected by competing colonialisms during the twentieth century.

The Colonial Office (1956) examines the organisation and work of the Office as it stood in the mid-1950s.

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

This book looks at how the fledgling British East India Company state of the 1760s developed into the mature Anglo-Indian empire of the 19th century.

This book explores belonging among Muslims in Britain and France, asking whether British and French Muslims are citizens first or Muslims first.

In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work through the U.

After a million deaths and twice that number injured, after the destruction of much of the infrastructure of Iran and Iraq, disruption of trade throughout the Gulf and the involvement of the USA and USSR, was the Gulf War a pointless exercise, a futile conflict which achieved nothing and left the combatants at the end of it all back in exactly the same position from which they started in 1980?