Colonialism and imperialism

For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia--the last British colony in what became the United States--enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid.

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During World War I, the American Expeditionary Force Second Division saw more action and captured more ground and enemy combatants than any other, including the vaunted First Division.

The Nightwatchman: Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa brings into focus African men in colonial uniforms as a subject of portraiture.

This ground-breaking book focuses on the dynamic interplay between language and identity in postcolonial Anglophone African literature.

Up until recently, Europe's three imperial monarchies - the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires - were seen as moribund political entities, unable to accommodate the forces of political, social, economic, and cultural modernization, and as a result collapsed collectively during or shortly after the First World War.

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the historian and public moralist E.

Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs also ruled over possessions 'beyond the seas'.

Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War - a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next century.

The essays in this volume have been written by leading experts in their respective fields and bring together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians.

Anarchism 1914-18 is the first systematic analysis of anarchist responses to the First World War.

This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s.

This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W.

Anarchism 1914-18 is the first systematic analysis of anarchist responses to the First World War.

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation.

Recent scholarship in political thought has closely examined the relationship between European political ideas and colonialism, particularly the ways in which canonical thinkers supported or opposed colonial practices.

This wide-ranging and accessible book examines the effects of British imperial involvements on history writing in Britain since 1750.

Buildings provide tremendous insights into the character of imperialism, not least in the manner in which Western forms were spread across the globe.

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.

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.

This is the first account of Britain's plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies - something that historians have usually said Britain never contemplated.

Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded.

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

This collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the 'cultural turn' in historical scholarship and the 'new imperial history'.

This study explores the shared history of the French empire from the perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, Creole, and indigenous agency in the construction of imperial spaces.

Covering the period from the re-establishment of the Irish militia during the Crimean War until the disbandment of the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1992, this book examines the Irish amateur military tradition within the British Army, distinctive from a British amateur military tradition.

Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state.

How do we know which snakes are dangerous?

Partition-the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states-is often presented as a successful political "e;solution"e; to ethnic conflict.

Buildings provide tremendous insights into the character of imperialism, not least in the manner in which Western forms were spread across the globe.

This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India.

Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state.

Frontiers of servitude explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery in little-examined printed and archival sources, focusing on what 'made' a slave, what was unique about Caribbean labour, and what strategic approaches meant in interacting with slaves.

This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication.

Mobility was central to imperialism, from the human movements entailed in exploration, travel and migration to the information, communications and commodity flows vital to trade, science, governance and military power.

Recent scholarship in political thought has closely examined the relationship between European political ideas and colonialism, particularly the ways in which canonical thinkers supported or opposed colonial practices.

France's presence on the African continent has often been presented as 'cooperation' and part of French cultural policy by policy-makers in Paris - and quite as often been denounced as 'the longest scandal of the republic' by French academics and African intellectuals.

In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory.

We, in the West in general, and the United States in particular, have witnessed over the last twenty years a slow erosion of our civilizational self-confidence.

State and Revolution is an indispensable guide to confronting the political and bureaucratic structures that protect the power and position of the world's elites and suffocate the lives of the vast majority of humanity.

Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.

In ill health following a stroke, Sir Walter Scott wrote Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft at the behest of his son-in-law, J.

The Secret Life of a Satanist steps behind the curtain with the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan.

This volume explores how imperial powers established and expanded their empires through decisions that were often based on exaggerated expectations and wishful thinking, rather than on reasoned and scientific policies.

The book presents a possible way of reading and re-writing the Eurocentrism of International Relations.

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 groundbreaking book challenges standard interpretations of metropolitan strategies of rule in the early nineteenth century.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

Taiwan is in danger of becoming the last isle, losing its sovereignty and identity.