Colonialism and imperialism

Although primarily defined in cultural terms, as the land of the Tamil-speaking people, Tamilnad's geographical location in the south-eastern corner of the Indian sub-continent has enabled it to develop and maintain a distinctive character.

South Asia's diaspora is among the world's largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially.

Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery.

Nineteenth-century Sierra Leone presented a unique situation historically as the focal point of early abolitionist efforts, settlement within West Africa by westernized Africans, and a rapid demographic increase through the judicial emancipation of Liberated Africans.

Sexual Antipodes is about how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life.

The image of the pirate is at once spectral and ubiquitous.

An in-depth study examining the agency and influence of indigenous Temne-speakers in the making of the Sierra Leone Colony.

This Handbook brings together a plethora of decolonial perspectives from and about Asian countries beyond Southeast Asia.

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

This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period from 1765 to 1947.

In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work through the U.

Comprising a collection of interview essays with nineteen public intellectuals and scholars from around the world, this book reflects on some of the most pressing questions of our age: what is global inequality; what causes it; and how should we deal with it?

This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962.

In Search of the Afropolitan explores human encounters and moments that speak to the challenges of being a 21st century African of the world.

This Element demonstrates how imperialism helps great powers enhance their own economic well-being at the expense of the developing world.

Examining film, literature and art produced during and after the Malayan Emergency, the guerrilla war fought between the Malayan National Liberation Army and the military forces of the British Commonwealth, this collection demonstrates how art functions as a record of cultural memory that both reinforces and challenges official histories.

Urban history is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field of research.

The Routledge History of Global War and Society offers a sweeping introduction to the most significant research on the causes, experiences, and impacts of war throughout history.

This timely work investigates the possibility of unyoking and decolonising African university knowledges from colonial relics.

The focus of this volume is Britain's trans-Pacific empire.

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.

How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again.

When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity.

This book discusses cuisine to understand the construction of the colonial middle class in Bengal, India.

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.

During his stay in the West Indies as a Dominican missionary, pere Labat was able to observe buccaneers and their ships.

This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900.

This book analyses the role of the mobility factor in the spread of Russian rule in Eurasia in the formative period of the rise of the Russian Empire and offers an examination of the interaction of Russian authorities with their nomadic partners.

A major study of the impact of Renaissance humanism upon the English colonization of America.

South-South migration contributes significantly to the development of the emerging economies, the migration of receiving countries and, at the same time, generates a major share of remittance income flowing into the sending countries.

The Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy is a multidisciplinary collection of writings by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world.

This book explores contesting identities, international politics, migration and democratic practices in the context of globalizing India.

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.

This book is an original study of Cold Rush, an accelerated race for the extraction and protection of Arctic natural resources.

The Gulf War inflicted dramatic environmental damage upon the fragile desert and shore environments of Kuwait and north eastern Saudi Arabia.

Reflecting the best recent scholarship of Early America and the Early Republic, the articles in this collection study the many dimensions of American political history.

Medicine has always been a significant tool of an empire.

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

Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood.

This book examines political responses to the problem of human trafficking, including proposals, actions (legislative and executive), and statements made by politicians, government agencies, and civil society organizations to solve or mitigate the crime of human trafficking.

The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz examines the role of occasional verse in the works of the celebrated colonial Mexican nun.

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

Subject to Colonialism provides a much needed revisionist perspective on the way twentieth-century Africa is viewed and analyzed among scholars.

This book explores the Kuki uprising against the British Empire during the First World War in the northeast frontier of India (then the Assam-Burma frontier).

Illuminating the Dark Side's Spirits, Fiends, Devils, and Demons.

The material heritage of the colonial era is built into Africa's cities, from their urban layouts, to their architecture, monuments and street names.