Colonialism and imperialism

British Colonialism and the Criminalization of Homosexuality examines whether colonial rule is responsible for the historical, and continuing, criminalization of same-sex sexual relations in many parts of the world.

This book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South.

In the wake of the Great Depression, economic recovery and nutritional improvement in Britain simultaneously occurred with their decline in British Africa.

Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion.

This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism.

Bringing together for the first time leading historians of European decolonization, this book is a landmark in the comparative analysis of the fall of the European empires, viewed both as a problematic of European policy-making and as a formative experience in the development of new states.

The dawn of the twenty-first century heralded an apparent change of fortunes for most sub-Saharan African economies, with annual growth averaging over 5% for fifteen years.

With an eye to recovering the experiences of those in frontier zones of contact, Savage Worlds maps a wide range of different encounters between Germans and non-European indigenous peoples in the age of high imperialism.

This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine.

This multidisciplinary collection examines the connections between education, migration and translation across school and higher education sectors, and a broad range of socio-geographical contexts.

Die Garnisonkirche in Potsdam – einst ein prächtiges Symbol preußischer Macht und architektonischer Meisterleistung – wurde im Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstört.

India is facing a river pollution crisis today.

Slave rebellions have been studied in considerable detail, but this volume examines other patterns of slave resistance, concentrating on runaway slaves and the communities some of them formed.

This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West.

Based on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global migration from the early nineteenth until the early twentieth century.

Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period.

This book focuses on the career of Sanskrit in British India.

Now in its third edition, Food in World History explores culinary cultures and food politics throughout the world, from ancient times to the present day, with expanded discussions of industrialization, indigeneity, colonialism, gender, environment, and food and power.

Using the categories of status, political power, and wealth, Robert W.

In 1888, there were just four British consulates in the country; by 1921 there were twenty-three.

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs and buildings were removed or changed after countries' independence.

During the first eighty years of permanent European colonization, webs of alliances shaped North America from northern New England to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and entangled all peoples in one form or another.

This new study demonstrates the precision of Bronte's historical setting of Jane Eyre .

Long overshadowed by her more widely read and reprinted son Anthony, Frances Trollope is almost exclusively remembered for her travel writing and especially for the notoriously controversial Domestic Manners of the Americans.

This book discusses how ancient Japanese mythology was utilized during the colonial period to justify the annexation of Korea to Japan, with special focus on the god Susanoo.

Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika – ein Land der Freiheit, Unabhängigkeit und Chancen.

This book is a significant contribution to the socio-political history of science and technology in India, combining a wholistic perspective with a strong regional flavour.

Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany.

The decline of the Mughal Empire, the political ascendency of the British East India Company, a number of revivalist powers (the Sikhs, the Marathas, the Rohillas, etc.

This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation during the 19th century.

This book brings together, for the first time, studies of the professionalisation of accountancy in key constituent territories of the British Empire.

The creation of the United Arab Emirates in 1971 ended a century and a half of the existence of the Trucial States in special treaty relations with Britain.

This book explores the reproduction of colonialism at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and examines international criminal law (ICL) vs the black body through an immersive format of art, music, poetry, and architecture and post-colonial/critical race theory lens.

This volume provides an overview of fundamental or 'grounding' themes in African Cultural Studies, including the articulation of African cultural studies, the issue of Africa's diaspora(s), African identity and identifications, and media studies in Africa and its relationship with cultural studies.

From the late nineteenth century onwards the concept of Mother India assumed political significance in colonial Bengal.

This is the first book on Italian colonialism that specifically deals with the question of citizenship/subjecthood.

Von den bescheidenen Anfängen in Hispania bis zur Eroberung Dakiens und der Festigung des römischen Reiches – Kaiser Trajan verkörpert wie kaum ein anderer Herrscher die Ideale von Stärke, Weisheit und Integrität.

How to Support the Neuropsychological Health of the Vietnamese Diaspora is the first book in a new series entitled A Clinical Guide to the Neuropsychological Health of Immigrant Populations, which guides clinicians in the art and science of providing culturally competent services to specific communities.

Shedding light on the role of India within twentieth-century international relations, this book explores the life and career of Kavalam Madhava (K.

This book examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty in ways that merged geographic discourse with law.

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

It was the vitality of British Protestantism in its relationship with the state which largely accounts for the achievement of emancipation and the success of the British Anti-Slavery Movement.

Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations of the child-savage analogy from colonial into postcolonial discourse across a wide range of old and new media.

Fighting for Africa captures the commitment and contributions of two men who dedicated their lives to the fight to free Africa from colonialism and racism.

This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492.

European portrayals of Aboriginal people and their objects have long had political implications.

This volume offers a critical and creative analysis of the innovations of Deathscapes, a transnational digital humanities project that maps the sites and distributions of custodial deaths in locations such as police cells, prisons and immigration detention centres.

Subsistence crops - the grains and other food items necessary to a people's survival - were a central preoccupation of the early modern state.