Colonialism and imperialism

In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones.

Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule.

This book reviews Cabral's intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics.

This book is the first publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future, which was organised in June 2013, by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname.

It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies.

As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern Indian built environment from the independence struggle until today, this book reveals a history that is largely unknown, not only in the West, but also in India.

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

This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation.

Once hailed as 'the eternal state', the Ottoman Empire was in decline by the end of the nineteenth century, finally collapsing under the pressures of World War I.

By combining textual analysis with an ethnographic study of the Jesuits Blackburn is able to reveal the gap between the domineering language of the Relations and the limited authority that the Jesuits were able to exercise over Native people, who actively challenged much of what the Jesuits tried to do and say.

Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century presents a historical reconstruction of the ways in which Catholics have justified the recourse to political violence during the twentieth century, a period marked by major wars, nationalisms, decolonization, ideological clashes, and episodes of genocide.

Two volumes introduce the history of colonial wars in Africa and illustrate why African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan continue to experience ethnic, political, and religious violence in the early 21st century.

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This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins.

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering technologies, and hopefulness of youth climate activism.

Comic empires is a unique collection of new research exploring the relationship between imperialism and political cartoons, caricature, and satirical art.

The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of `empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome.

Nineteenth century Spain deserves wider readership.

Following the Brexit vote, this book offers a timely historical assessment of the different ways that Britain's economic future has been imagined and how British ideas have influenced global debates about market relationships over the past two centuries.

This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating.

This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries.

How much did the British Empire cost, and how did Britain pay for it?

The beginnings of what we now call 'globalization' dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect 'the four parts of the world'.

Focusing on the era of "e;first encounters"e; in Polynesia, this book provides a fresh look at some of the early contacts between indigenous people and the captains and crew of European ships.

This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins, development and nature of state power.

This volume explores intergenerational trauma among refugee communities displaced throughout the world.

Problem Society is an essential introduction to the many facets of divided societies.

National liberation, one of the grand narratives of the twentieth century, has left a weighty legacy of unfulfilled dreams.

This book addresses the ethical and practical issues at stake in the reconciliation of Indigenous and non-indigenous communities.

From 1927-1948, the Universal Ethiopian Students' Association (UESA) mobilized the African diaspora to fight against imperialism and fascist Italy.

This book, first published in 1976 and in this second edition in 1988, combines an examination of the political, cultural and economic geography of the Middle East with a detailed study of the region's landscape features, natural resources, environmental conditions and ecological evolution.

This volume attempts to insert itself within the larger discussion of Africa in the twenty-first century, especially within the realm of world politics.

This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on what religion can contribute to migrant encounters.

This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare.

Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses challenge two intersecting facets of the politics of belonging: the making of the 'good and legitimate citizens' and the 'acceptable family'.

A New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history.

This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century.

While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves.

This collection of essays, written by authors of different nationalities, explores the experiences of the countries that were not numbered among the Second World War's major belligerents, including colonies, 'lesser' powers, and neutral nation states.

When in 1921 the British created the 'Amirate of Transjordan' for Abdallah to rule, the barren and desolate region he was given made him concentrate almost from the start on Palestine for an expansionist drive that was to underpin the legitimacy of the kingdom he craved and lend lustre to the crown he coveted.

This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth centurythe very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence.

In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization?

In recent years, imperial history has experienced a newfound vigour, dynamism and diversity.

The gripping story of Afro-Argentine celebrity Raúl Grigera that also tells the untold history of Black Argentina.

Early Records of British India (1972) is an important collection of source material deriving from official documents which now form part of the India Office Records.

Heinrich Von Treitschke was a prolific German historian and political writer during the nineteenth century.