Colonialism and imperialism

This book reconsiders the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the United States and its consequent cultural and literary histories.

This book uses original resources to uncover the valuable help given to Britain's leaders and her elite by the Scot, John Drummond of Quarrel.

This book draws together some of the most innovative studies in contemporary Southeast Asian research by social science scholars in the region.

In this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her unforgiving indictment of neoliberal imperial politics.

WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural HistoriansWINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible.

This book aims to redefine Australia's earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "e;Aboriginal art,"e; tracing the term's use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment.

In the immediate aftermath of the creation of Bangladesh in 1971, an armed struggle ensued in its remote south-eastern corner.

This book studies the political integration of Indian diaspora communities into their host societies.

British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians.

Exploring the professional and political ideas of Newfoundland naval governors during the French Wars, this book traces the evolution of the Naval Governorship and administration of the region, shedding a light on a critical period of its early modern history.

Bringing a needed perspective on African Epistemologies on the critical topics of higher education in relation to knowledge systems, this book highlights how knowledge creation processes influence higher education systems, society, and African development.

This Handbook inverts the lens on development, asking what Indigenous communities across the globe hope and build for themselves.

Filling a major gap in historical, literary, and post-colonial scholarship, Imperialisms examines the identity statements of the world's major imperialisms in multiple theatres of competition over the course of four centuries.

British Honduras (1951) examines this most neglected of the British colonies, from the early days of settlement by the logwood-cutters and buccaneers up to the post-war period.

A new account of global justice that recovers anticolonial thought for resisting a neocolonial agePoliticians and activists today turn to the language of decolonization to call attention to such issues as cultural and linguistic decline, exploitative foreign investment, and global institutions dominated by superpowers.

From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America.

Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories.

In Primitive Normativity Elizabeth W.

Rather than a centralized state, Iran in the nineteenth century was a delicate balance between tribal groups, urban merchant communities, religious elites, and an autocratic monarchy.

New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power, Vol.

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level.

This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyzes the experiences of African migrants in Thailand.

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

This book looks at the institutionalisation and refashioning of Ayurveda as a robust, literate classical tradition, separated from the assorted, vernacular traditions of healing practices.

This edited volume brings together a collection of provocative essays examining a number of different facets of Elizabethan foreign affairs, encompassing England and The British Isles, Europe, and the dynamic civilization of Islam.

This book provides fresh insights into how the British press affected both British perceptions of decolonisation in Africa and British policy towards it during the 'wind of change' period.

In The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution, Dan Robinson presents a new history of politics in colonial America and the imperial crisis, tracing how ideas of Europe and Europeanness shaped British-American political culture.

By foregrounding the voices and experiences of scholars from the Global South who have migrated to institutions in the Global North, this volume theorizes the "e;third space"e; as a unique, rich, and generative position in the Western academy.

The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized.

This volume provides an analysis of the history, origins, and development of football in Africa.

The contributors to this book examine and compare the colonial and decolonisation experiences of people in Taiwan and Nan'yo Gunto - Micronesia - who underwent periods of rule by the Greater Japanese Empire.

This book offers a new account of human interaction and culture change for Mesoamerica that connects the present to the past.

James Wise was Civil Surgeon of Dacca for ten years and in that capacity had great opportunities of observing the social life of the people of Bengal.

A cutting-edge exploration of how Marx's ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South.

In 1807 the reformist Sultan Selim III was overthrown in a palace coup enacted by the elite special forces of the day-the Janissaries.

Relatively recent Bantu-speaking migrants to central Cameroon, the Beti have had an eventful history.

For centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape.

This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract "e;imagined community"e; but also represents embodied cultural and discursive practices.

This book marks an important new intervention into a vibrant area of scholarship, creating a dialogue between the histories of imperialism and of women and gender.

Honorable Mention, Book Award in History of the Association for Asian American Studies.

In this revised and expanded second edition of Third World Studies, Gary Y.

The 20th century witnessed the large-scale displacement and dispersal of populations across the world because of major political upheavals, among them the two European wars, decolonization and the Cold War.

If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal.

Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis.

This is the story of the early life and escape from the Chinese of a young tulku of Tibet, an incarnate lama of high rank.

First Published in 1998.

Protestant missionary children were uniquely 'empire citizens' through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts.