Colonialism and imperialism

A pioneering study of the causes and consequences of the rivalry and collapse of the great Ottoman and Russian empires.

This wide-ranging study explores major debates in the history of the colonial missionary movement during the second British empire.

This book explores the constitutional issues at the heart of the conflict between Britain and its American colonies in the eighteenth century.

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America.

Charting attempts to regulate the obscene within the Britain Empire, and the resulting contradictions that sustained imperial and colonial regimes.

In this book, Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850 to 1920.

This book explores different kinds of colonialism and how these result in differing levels of economic prosperity and social well-being.

Comparative essays on the political and cultural ''mobilization'' of populations during the First World War.

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America.

This book explores the value of bhasa literature through the lens of Dipesh Chakrabarty's scholarship, offering a nuanced perspective on his passionate engagement with literature at large and with Bengali literature, in particular.

Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers.

This book explores different kinds of colonialism and how these result in differing levels of economic prosperity and social well-being.

This book examines how and why the British were able to establish a colonial government in what became known as ''Uganda''.

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were common in the colonial Atlantic World of the mid-to-late nineteenth century.

Charting attempts to regulate the obscene within the Britain Empire, and the resulting contradictions that sustained imperial and colonial regimes.

A revisionist account of imperial history that sets out a new interpretation of economic activity in the British Empire.

Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900.

A study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia''s Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great.

A magisterial global history of the rise and fall of the British Empire by an award-winning author.

This collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting.

Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900.

A study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia''s Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great.

A magisterial global history of the rise and fall of the British Empire by an award-winning author.

This book examines why and how colonial fishermen and fish merchants mobilized for the American Revolution, underscoring the pivotal maritime efforts that secured American independence.

This book examines how and why the British were able to establish a colonial government in what became known as ''Uganda''.

This book examines the expenditures of the imperial wars, which were so great that they eventually bankrupted the monarchy in Spain.

Smith reexamines German continuities and sheds new light on nationalism, anti-Semitism and genocide.

Revisionist account of the Ottoman Empire''s fateful decision to enter the First World War in 1914.

This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity in the Ottoman Empire.

Hutson examines ideas and public policies relating to the relationship between government and religion from 1607 to 1837.

An analysis of Russian democracy''s collapse in 1917 through the experiences of ordinary people.

The development, and costs, of the idea that God has a special plan for America.

This 2007 book provides the most comprehensive examination of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) combat doctrine and methods ever published.

A study of British politics and political thought in Bengal in the eighteenth century.

A study of Mayan conversion in sixteenth-century Yucatan.

This book, first published in 2006, explores the memory of the Great War through the historical experience of pilgrimage.

A study of the British Atlantic World through a case study of the plantation-owning Lascelles.

This book argues that the reason states become prosperous is more or less effective states.

This book is exclusively devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England.

This book explores the realities behind the Palestinian exodus of 1948 during the Arab-Israeli war.

Fascinating portrait of the princes of India from their pre-colonial origins to post-World War II.

Elusive Empire was the first full account of how between 1670 and 1730 French settlers came to the Americas.

A major re-interpretation of international relations from Versailles to the outbreak of war in 1939.

Study of the impact in Britain when the East India Company acquired a South Asian ''empire'' .

This book re-examines the course of the First World War through the lens of the Franco-British coalition.

A compelling assessment of the experience of the British soldier in the First World War.

A major contribution to our understanding of total war.

This 2005 book is a fully comparative history of the writing of the history of the Great War.

Decisions for War focuses on the question: why did World War I happen?

The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period.