Colonialism and imperialism

This volume offers innovative insights into and approaches to the multiple historical intersections between distinct modalities of internationalism and imperialism during the twentieth century, across a range of contexts.

Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have brought to light the importance of a historical approach to the notion of Britishness and religion.

Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir.

This book shows how the police functioned in the cities of the Napoleonic Empire.

This book examines the experience of post-colonial territories and their attempts to manage ethnic communities within their countries.

This book examines the native Irish experience of conquest and colonisation in Ulster in the first decades of the seventeenth century.

In tenth-century Europe and particularly in Germany, imperial women were able to wield power in ways that were scarcely imaginable in earlier centuries.

This book explores the assertions made by Irish nationalists of a parallel between Ireland under British rule and Poland under Russian, Prussian and Austrian rule in the long nineteenth century.

This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents.

This book explores the ramifications of 1917, arguing that it was a cataclysmic year in world history.

This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d'Angouleme, the duchesse de Berry, Queen of the French Marie-Amelie, and Adelaide d'Orleans.

This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement.

This book examines how slave traders interacted with and resisted the British suppression campaign in the nineteenth-century western Indian Ocean.

This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others.

This work analyzes the history of the application of Islamic law (Shari`ah) in Nigeria.

This book draws on over twenty years' investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and other former British settler colonies.

This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial Kenya.

This book throws new light on the impact of informal 'old boy' networks on British decolonisation.

This book takes a timely look at histories of radical Jewish movements, their modes of Holocaust memorialisation, and their relationships with broader anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles.

This book explores the evolution of Canadian and Australian national identities in the era of decolonization by evaluating educational policies in Ontario, Canada, and Victoria, Australia.

This volume collects new angles and perspectives on issues shaping the development of the Caribbean.

This book deals with one of the most pervasive ways by which people have addressed authority throughout history: petitioning.

This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America.

This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth.

This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers' understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home.

This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

These essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, politically, culturally, and economically.

This book investigates and assesses how and to what extent the French Catholic missionaries carried out their evangelical activity amid the natives of Acadia/Nova Scotia from the mid-seventeenth century until 1755, the year of the Great Deportation of the Acadians.

Violence and intimacy were critically intertwined at all stages of the settler colonial encounter, and yet we know surprisingly little of how they were connected in the shaping of colonial economies.

This book examines the role of foreign languages and cultures in the Algerian educational system, highlighting how cultural imperialism and supremacy persist through damaging language ideologies and the privileging of colonial languages such as French and English.

This book is the first study of the development and decolonization of a British colonial high court in Africa.

This book explores women writers' involvement with the Gothic.

This book draws on participatory ethnographic research to understand how rural Colombian women work to dismantle the coloniality of power.

After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom.

This Palgrave Pivot combines anthropological, biographical and autoethnographic perspectives onto imperial intimacies, the transgenerational transmission of colonial and familial trauma, and violence in two kinds of household: the Chinese family in British Hong Kong and wider imperial Asia, and the Anglo-Chinese family in England.

This book explores the culture of migration that emerged in Malawi in the early twentieth century as the British colony became central to labour migration in southern Africa.

This book analyses the processes and factors that contributed to the emergence and eventual consolidation of the Greek Cypriot Right in the era of British colonialism.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

This book examines the ways in which a minority of primarily white, male, French philanthropists used their social standing and talents to improve the lives of peoples of African descent in Saint-Domingue during the crucial period of the Haitian Revolution.

This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.

This book makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary as ideology or propaganda.

This volume explores the history of eugenics in four Dominions of the British Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa.

The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives-historical, mythological, and literary.

This book examines the deep and lengthy crisis of legitimacy triggered by the death of Prince Juan of Castile and Aragon in 1497 and the subsequent ascent of Juana I to the throne in 1504.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the 'special relationship' between Southern Rhodesia and South Africa.

The successor to Kenyatta and Britain: An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963, this book completes the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta by examining the mechanisms of installing a neo-colonial regime in Kenya, and how such regimes were duplicated elsewhere in Africa.

This book offers engagements with topics in mainline theology that concern the lifelines in and of the Pacific (Pasifika).

This book explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India.

This study draws on extensive archival research to explore the social history of industrial labor in colonial India through the lens of well-being.

This book presents a critical edition of the lecture "e;Cuba and the Cubans"e; by George Kennan the Elder, with a wide-ranging introduction examining its influence on American public opinion of the Spanish-American War.