Colonialism and imperialism

This volume focuses on a longing projected mostly toward the past (mal d'Afrique) alongside a longing toward the future (afro-optimism), and the different manifestations, shifting meanings, and potential points of contact of these two stances.

This book traces the emergence of wildlife policy in colonial eastern and central Africa over the course of a century.

Sudan, the largest country in Africa, became independent in 1956, to find it had a foot in both the Arab Muslim and the Black African camps.

First published in 1937, India captures the tense and tumultuous developments in India that would eventually result in her freedom a decade later.

Through contributions of money and time, many individuals made a variety of philanthropic enterprises possible.

Religious liberty is one of the hallmarks of American democracy, but the principal architects of this liberty believed that it was only compatible with a certain form of Christianitynamely, a liberal, rational, Christianity.

This book provides a rich and full analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their important contributions to the living Swahili literary and intellectual tradition.

The decline of the Mughal Empire, the political ascendency of the British East India Company, a number of revivalist powers (the Sikhs, the Marathas, the Rohillas, etc.

This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations.

This book reveals the 'epistemic imposition' of architectural ideas and practices by colonists from the Netherlands in the Dutch East Indies from the late-19th century onwards, exploring the ways in which this came to shape the profession up to the present day in what is now known as Indonesia.

A provocative, breath-taking, and concise relational history of colonialism over the past 500 years, from the dawn of the New World to the twenty-first century.

This book traces American engagement in the English-speaking Caribbean from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, and is the first to examine the policies of Presidents George W.

This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature.

Healing Multicultural America (1993) looks at a group of Mexican immigrants who managed to understand and use the US democratic system to gain access to the 'American Dream'.

Swaziland-recently renamed Eswatini-is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system.

This book presents a novel perspective on neocolonialism, education and other related issues.

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free StateEminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (18091897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain, and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Concert of Europe.

Spanning three continents, and the period from the 1880s to World War I, when Britain was at the height of its power and influence, this unusual family memoir offers a memorable glimpse of late imperial life and provides a fascinating record of the intersection of the lives of a single British family with the drama of world affairs.

El descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo convirtió a España en potencia mundial e inauguró un nuevo capítulo en el comercio internacional, si bien en el siglo XVII los españoles tuvieron que hacer frente a una grave crisis.

This edited collection brings together original research papers that explore an important aspect of race and ethnic studies, namely the processes that are shaping the making of Latina and Latino identities in contemporary America.

This revealing portrait of the oceanic Dutch Empire exposes the maritime world as a catalyst for the downfall of European imperialism.

This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present.

The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies.

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.

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of Critical Race Theory, offering a clear understanding of its origins, the way it has been problematized and its potential for societal change.

This book examines "e;eternal colonialism,"e; a term used to describe the policies that were designed by the Western world and the United States in order to keep most of the world in a permanently subordinate political, economic, social, and military state.

In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before.

What are the origins of slavery and race-based prejudice in the mainland American colonies?

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

Afrika - Kontinent einer reichen GeschichteDie Geschichte Afrikas ist die Geschichte der Anfänge der menschlichen Zivilisation.

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire.

Firearms have been studied by imperial historians mainly as means of human destruction and material production.

Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism.

This new Seminar Study surveys the history of U.

1314: Die Schlacht von Bannockburn verändert den Lauf der Geschichte.

Spaniards in the Colonial Empire traces the privileges, prejudices, and conflicts between American-born and European-born Spaniards, within the Spanish colonies in the Americas from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries.

Unshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were preyed upon by European colonialism and Westernisation.

Decolonization brings together the most cutting-edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including previously unpublished essays and writings by leaders of decolonizing countries including Ho Chi-Minh and Jawaharlal Nehru.

This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its benefits persist.

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America.

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

This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations.

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

Ruthless Warfare (1998) demonstrates how close the First World War came to Australia.

American Empire in the Pacific explores the empire that emerged from the Oregon Treaty of 1846 with Great Britain and the outcome of the Mexican War in 1848.

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels.

Mass migrations, diasporas, dual citizenship arrangements, neoliberal economic reforms and global social justice movements have in recent decades produced shifting boundaries and meanings of citizenship within and beyond the Americas.

Stuart Hall conceptualized his time at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies as a series of interruptions.

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event.