Colonialism and imperialism

This book, first published in 1933, reproduces the diary of the 1930 explorations by the great Italian traveller, Giotto Dainelli.

Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards, Work of State Significance and The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book AwardShortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Australian HistoryWinner of the 2025 NSW History Award, Australian History PrizeWinner of the 2025 Marion ACT Literary Award, Non-FictionWinner of the First Nations History Award, Canberra Critics' Circle Awards 2024Winner of the 2025 ACT Book of the Year AwardFor the first time, the First Nations story of Cook's arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans.

This 5-volume set tracks the various legal, administrative and social documentation on the progress of Indian education from 1780 to 1947.

Recounts the unique course of the French empire over more than four centuries, and through many different colonial regimes.

This book studies the various representations of Asia in Bengali literary periodicals between the 1860s and 1940s.

Museums and the Act of Witnessing examines how representations of traumatic histories and the legacies of the twentieth century in museums and heritage sites across the world shape political, social and cultural identities.

Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change explores the intersection of gender, migration, and rurality in 21st-century Western and non-Western contexts.

This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions.

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

This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In overturning Spain's control of the Americas, such great military leaders as Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin unleashed both civil wars and revolutions between 1810 and 1824.

The French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was home to one of the richest public theatre traditions of the colonial-era Caribbean.

The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime.

This book focuses on the migration of undocumented minors arriving recently to the United States and the European Union, flows that are often labeled 'undocumented', 'illegal', or 'irregular' and due to their sudden increase, they have been described in the media, policy circles, and scholarly work as a 'surge' or a 'crisis'.

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 extraordinary collection is a game-changer.

Provides the first detailed analysis of the evolution of the concept of corruption in colonial Mexico.

This book offers a new interpretation of political reform in the settler colonies of Britain's empire in the early nineteenth century.

A number of studies of colonial Lahore in recent years have explored such themes as the citys modernity, its cosmopolitanism and the rise of communalism which culminated in the bloodletting of 1947.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American Studies.

This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chile, and ending with the decline of British influence following the Second World War.

By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore's English language writings, this book places the work of India's greatest Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore studies and imperial/postcolonial historiography.

A comprehensive survey of Pacific history from earliest times to 1800

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.

In 1894 Great Britain invited 'Abd al-Rahman Khan, the amir of Afghanistan, to England for a state visit.

This book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft and its contentious relationship with the state in colonial Kenya.

The profound effects of the British Empire's actions in the Arab World during the First World War can be seen echoing through the history of the 20th century.

Commercial Relations between India and England (1924) is a comprehensive study of the beginnings of the English relations with India and the East.

This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa.

This is the first book to examine football (soccer) through the lens of diaspora studies.

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.

From 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published more than 60 books, including novels, biographies, children's books, and poetry; this is the first collection devoted to this important transnational writer.

Homelandings is a critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' based on racist and heteronormative assumptions.

This book facilitates more careful engagement with the production, politics and geography of knowledge as scholars create space for the inclusion of southern cities in urban theory.

This book delves into the history of the commercialization of wildlife in India.

Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism.

Curriculum Implementation Leadership and Equity in Education: Curriculum Struggles and Hopes in Jamaica During the Post-Independence Era takes a critical historical perspective on how curriculum is understood, tracing major national curriculum implementation efforts within primary and secondary schools in Jamaica from the 1970s to 2000s.

This book explores the largely neglected relationship between men, masculinities and honour-based abuse (HBA).

This book examines how, quite by accident and under very unfortunate circumstances, Britain's colony of South Carolina afforded women an unprecedented opportunity for economic autonomy.

Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology is the first edited collection dedicated to exploring the explicitly phenomenological foundations underlying Frantz Fanon's most important insights.

The Southeast Europe and Black Sea region presents fertile terrain for examining recent international migration trends.

Als der fünfte Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten stand James Monroe vor der Herausforderung, die noch junge Nation vor äußeren Bedrohungen zu schützen und ihre Unabhängigkeit in einer Welt voller kolonialer Supermächte zu bewahren.

British colonial rule of the tropics is the critical background to contemporary development issues.

This book examines the detrimental impact of illicit financial flows on South Africa's development, political economy, and transformation in the 21st century.

This book uncovers the history of The Volunteers, a Spanish loyalist militia who were committed to upholding Spanish imperial interests and influence in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santa Domingo and The Philippines as the age of empire came to a close.

The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolome de las Casas's Brevisima relacion de la destruicion de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas's controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition.