Colonialism and imperialism

This book studies the role of the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey in providing refuge and prosperity for Jews fleeing from persecution in Europe and Byzantium in medieval times and from Russian pogroms and the Nazi holocaust in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The British prohibition of sati (the funeral practice of widow immolation) in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of colonial social reform.

African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discourses and ways of knowing and doing absent from discussions and debates on knowledge and development.

This book argues that the pervasiveness of the modern paradigm and its corollary, the colonial matrix of power, have led scholars of Negritude to think of Leopold Sedar Senghor's work either as an anti-thesis to the anti-Blackness constitutive of European modernity or as another manifestation of the West as subject of history.

This book focuses on the almost entirely neglected treatment of empire and colonialism in videogames.

Emerging from a long and exhausting conflict against the Boers in South Africa, Edwardians are often perceived as rocked by a profound set of doubts about the future of the British Empire.

This book focuses on refugee resettlement in the post-9/11 environment of the United States with theoretical work and ethnographic case studies that portray loss, transition, and resilience.

This volume looks at the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries.

Collaborative Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry invites readers to participate in the experience of engaging in and reflecting on the author's collaborative cross-cultural narrative research online with Parvana, an Afghan woman living in Afghanistan until August 2021.

Bosnian Muslims, East African Masai, Czech-speaking Austrians, North American indigenous peoples, and Jewish immigrants from across Europe the nineteenth-century British and Habsburg Empires were characterized by incredible cultural and racial-ethnic diversity.

This is a cultural history of the British Empire in India presented through ten key non-literary texts.

A comprehensive history of Uganda, examining its political, economic and social development from its precolonial origins to the present day.

This book addresses the centrality of race and racism in consolidating the nationalisms currently prominent in Brexit Britain.

Digital media are a key part of everyday social life for international migrants.

The period from about 1100 to 1350 in the Middle East was marked by continued interaction between the local Muslim rulers and two groups of non-Muslim invaders: the Frankish crusaders from Western Europe and the Mongols from northeastern Asia.

This book analyses the heterogeneous modes of meditation, prayer, initiation, beliefs and practices, codes of conduct, ethics and life-style of the contemporary Sikh Sants, Babas, Gurus and Satgurus in Punjab.

Unique in its global and interdisciplinary scope, this collection will bring together comparative insights across European, Ottoman, Japanese, and US imperial contexts while spanning colonized spaces in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia.

The British Empire was the most powerful empire known to the modern world, but power and confidence were ebbing by the mid-20th century.

The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World empires such as the Aztecs and Incas side by side with the history of imperial Rome and the empires of China and Russia in the medieval and modern periods.

The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past.

Both travel and translation involve a type of journey, one with literal and metaphorical dimensions.

The Ojibwe or Anishinaabe are a native American people of the northern Great Lakes region.

Liminal Diasporas: Contemporary Movements of Humanity and the Environment offers readers a new lens through which to critically re-evaluate the necropolitics of migration.

'Pflanzenentdeckung', -erforschung und -transfer waren zentrale Bestandteile des britischen Imperialismus.

This multi-volume set of reissued classics brings together a collection of titles that touch on many key aspects of the history of the Middle East.

The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism.

When tourists travel, they often seek the exotic.

Humanizing LIS Education and Practice: Diversity by Design demonstrates that diversity concerns are relevant to all and need to be approached in a systematic way.

Clarke describes events in Nova Scotia leading up to the siege of Fort Cumberland by the Continental army in 1776 and argues that from the beginning of hostilities Nova Scotians' primary loyalty was to Britain.

From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high.

The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858.

The destruction of the British army while retreating from Afghanistan in 1842 is one of the most dramatic episodes in British imperial history.

Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades.

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A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.

First Published in 1998.

The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial crisisWhy did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "e;all men are created equal"e;?

Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world.

Examining India-America relations between 1942-62, this book reconsiders the role of America in shaping the imagination of post-colonial India.

Archiving Cultures defines and models the concept of cultural archives, focusing on how diverse communities express and record their heritage and collective memory and why and how these often-intangible expressions are archival records.

This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and methods to the forefront.

First published in 1987.

This book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region and its component countries.

First published in 1985, this book gives an intimate account of the cultural-political conflict between Australian Aboriginal people and Anglo-Australians, presenting the Australian social world from the perspective of the Aboriginal person.