Colonialism and imperialism

This book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural processes that led to the rise of the ideology of labor as a touchstone of Bengali Muslim politics in late colonial India.

This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century.

This book analyzes how Britons celebrated and critiqued their empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790.

"e;On the Edge of Empire"e; is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history.

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

Colonial Sequence 1930-1949 (1967) presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain's colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire.

What is feminist transdisciplinary research?

Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?

Settlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom from the Second World War to the end of apartheid in 1994.

This book untangles the connections between British industrialization and colonial expansion in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This volume explores the formative and expressive dynamics of Khoesan identity during a crucial period of incorporation as an underclass into Cape colonial society.

La influència catalana, els negocis i la vida quotidiana a la colònia de Guinea Equatorial.

Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law considers the intersection of these terms in the historical development of what has come to be known as the 'rule of law'.

This book presents a comprehensive portrait of how Indians conceived of the idea of India.

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization.

Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies.

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.

Resolving the African Leadership Challenge: Insight From History examines leadership in pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial modern Africa, exploring the origin of Africa's leadership challenge, and providing lessons to enhance leadership effectiveness.

The transition from chattel slavery to forced labour in Africa and the Caribbean during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has commanded increasing attention from scholars in recent years.

Originally published in 1922, An Introduction to World Politics, was published at a particularly interesting time in international relations, just a few short years after the first world war.

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training).

Racializing the Soldier explores the impact of racial beliefs on the formation and development of modern armed forces and the ways in which these forces have been presented and historicized from a global perspective.

First published in 1928, Palestine Old and New is a historical travel guide providing a preliminary account of Palestine through the eye of a Zionist.

In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity.

This book examines the history of the Leeward Islands from their independence in 1670 to the outbreak of the American Revolution.

This book charts the previously untold story of the mobility of Indigenous peoples across vast distances, vividly reshaping what is known about decolonisation.

This book explores the interplay of Western European exploration and trade, with collecting, cabinets of curiosities and museums, and with the role of booty and plunder in the building of empires from ca.

This book interprets relationships between art and ethics in the context of contemporary South African art.

Studies of colonialism and empire have increasingly drawn attention to the problem of conceptualizing the political logic of colonial projects and the circumstances of state formation in colonial contexts.

This much anticipated volume looks at the historical evolution of towns and cities in medieval India from the early thirteenth to the late eighteenth century.

This book explores the idea, psychology and political geography of Northeast India as forged by two interrelated but autonomous meta-narratives.

Right from the enslavement era through to the colonial and contemporary eras, Africans have been denied their human essence , portrayed as indistinct from animals or beasts for imperial burdens, Africans have been historically dispossessed and exploited.

The period between 1880 and 1914, the subject of this volume, sees increasing questioning of free trade, especially in those sectors impacted adversely by foreign competition, and within political circles, where the notion of protecting native industries shifted from an agricultural to an industrial base.

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

Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies.

In the summer of 1764, Sir William Johnson (Superintendent of Indian Affairs) and over two thousand chiefs representing twenty-four First Nations met on the shores of the Niagara River to negotiate the Treaty of Niagara - an agreement between the British Crown and the Indigenous peoples.

Diasporas, Cultures and Identities brings together a range of original research papers from Ethnic and Racial Studies that are concerned with the question of the role of diasporic ties and the social, cultural and political processes that are engendered by the changing experiences of these communities.

The slow collapse of the European colonial empires after 1945 provides one of the great turning points of twentieth century history.

This book, first published in 1954 with this revised edition published in 1972, was recognised as the standard work on Indo-Pakistani geography.

The contributions to this volume have been selected from the papers delivered at the 34th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies at Birmingham, in April 2000.

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.

Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings.

This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide"e;When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population.

Bengalis in Burma looks at Bengali migrations and settlements in Burma from 1886 until the end of the British rule in Burma in 1948.

Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I's first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston's letter to the Minister of China in 1840.