Colonialism and imperialism

An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America.

This book examines Australian colonial and foreign aid policy towards Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia in the age of international development (1945-1975).

This book explores women writers' involvement with the Gothic.

Colonial and Post-Colonial Identity Politics in South Asia analyses the colonial and post-colonial documentation and caste classification among Muslims in India, demonstrating that religion negotiated with regional social customs and local social practices while at the same time fostering a shared religious belief.

'Gorgeous, spellbinding and important' Sunday Times'Rampaging, brilliant, passionate history' Wall Street Journal'Magnificent Dalrymple has uncovered sources never used before' Guardian'Vivid unmatched revolutionary humane' Sunday Telegraph____________________________From multi-award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple, a four-book collection chronicling the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of the East India Company.

This book offers rich sociological analysis of the ways in which educational institutions influence indigenous identity formation in Chile.

How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories?

This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult.

Auf einer Reise durch die Sahara setzt sich Sven Lind­qvist mit der Kolonialzeit auseinander.

Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the Northwest Pacific Coast.

This book explores the history of pre-communist Indochina, from the fourteenth century to the 1940s.

A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day.

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States.

Tribal societies in India observe a diverse set of religious practices which are a quintessential part of their community life.

This collection brings together an international group of scholars in order to provide new insights into the diversity of imperial legalities.

Processes of globalization have led to diasporic groups longing for their homelands.

In The Global Journey of Racism, Michelle Christian provides a unified narrative of how the world's racial hierarchies came to be.

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies; and the growth of plantations responding to changes in European diet - particularly the rise of the sugar economy.

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

By paying attention to Algerian Independence, this book reconstructs the action of the Catholic Church regarding the issues of the spread of Islam in colonies, to Arab nationalism, Marxist propaganda in non-European countries, and the effects of the Algerian crisis upon the French political system.

The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature examines how English writers responded to the cultural shock caused by the first substantial encounter between China and Western Europe.

Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists.

During the early modern period Oman held a key position in the trade routes whereby the Muslim world dominated indigenous trade in the Indian Ocean.

This is the first book to offer a systematic comparison of the philosophies of Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon.

Perhaps the most readable history ever written Time OutLords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic history; dramatic detailed and alive a journey, and a world all in one.

This book proposes a new notion of “ambicoloniality” to speak about the current situation when Ukraine has become Russia's territory of obsession, and Russia, in its desire to occupy Ukraine, has in effect subjected itself to Ukraine’s symbolic dominance.

Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalises and democratises ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the 'periphery'.

Making use of recent masculinity theories, Joseph A.

This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world.

This book traces the historical roots of the problems in India's mental health care system.

This book analyzes the ways in which organizations and individuals in India grappled with and contested definitions of democracy and unity in the decades directly preceding and following independent Indian statehood.

From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world.

In June of 1876, the U.

This volume investigates the cultural sites where the global Cold War played out.

North Africa differs from the Middle East in several significant ways.

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

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

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America.

Over forty years after the formal end of colonialism, suffocating ties to Western financial systems continue to prevent African countries from achieving any meaningful monetary sovereignty.

The Witchcraft Reader offers a wide range of historical perspectives on the subject of witchcraft in a single, accessible volume, exploring the enduring hold that it has on human imagination.

This volume celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva-Hindu right-wing nationalism-to illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and political theory to the idea of India as a Hindu nation.

The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives investigates the role that Macao played as a meeting place of the East and the West during this period of time and its decline as a Portuguese colony in the eyes of the Europeans.

GrippingEconomistA fascinating expos Raja Shehadeh, author ofPalestinian WalksPath-breaking and brilliant Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture and author ofHollow LandTel Aviv, the Zionist projects White City, is said to have risen from the sands of the desert.

Historically, the Atlantic Ocean has served to define the relationship between the so-called worlds of the 'Old' and the 'New'.

Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalises and democratises ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the 'periphery'.

Step into the enigmatic world of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, whose reign marked a unique crossroads between mysticism, art, and emerging scientific thought.

Early modern Europe was obsessed with borders and travel.