Colonialism and imperialism

The First World War was the first 'total war'.

Postcolonial theory has enjoyed wide influence in the humanities but for social science, and in particular sociology, its implications remain elusive.

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

This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932.

This history of the Royal Flying Corps during the Battle of Somme offers a comprehensive firsthand look at WWI military aviation.

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.

In the autumn of 1916 the Germans began to equip with the Gotha twin-engine bomber.

Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service.

France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today.

The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas explores the emancipatory potential and pitfalls of digital platforms and how well or how poorly they reflect intra-communal diversities within South Asian diasporic communities.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus.

Representations of indigenous peoples, while never static, have always served the interests of settler-colonialism.

Frederic Manning was born on 22nd July 1882 in Sydney, Australia, one of eight children to local politician Sir William Patrick Manning.

On 23 April 1918 a force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines launched one of the most daring raids in history.

This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the twentieth century.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

In December of 1914, veteran Boer commander General Louis Botha landed his forces on the coast of German South West Africa to finish off the colony’s Schutztruppe defenders.

This is the first of a two volume series covering early twentieth century colonial campaigns in Africa, Asia and the Americas, ranging from Mexico and the Philippines to Africa and the North West Frontier.

Portugal was the first colonial power to arrive in Africa and the last to leave.

This book explores concepts of decolonisation, identity, and nation in the white settler society of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between 1964 and 1979.

In the decades before colonial partition in Africa, the Church Missionary Society embarked on the first serious effort to evangelize in an independent Muslim state.

This book examines the role of the Irish medical profession in the First World War.

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

This book offers a detailed investigation of George S.

This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history.

In 1916, Lucy Thompson, an indigenous woman from Northwestern California, published To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman.

This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind.

This book examines how the Crown has performed as Head of State across the UK and post war Commonwealth during times of political crisis.

This book traces American engagement in the English-speaking Caribbean from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, and is the first to examine the policies of Presidents George W.

Since the modern period, the field of biblical studies has relied upon libraries, museums, and archives for its evidentiary and credentialing needs.

Now in its second edition, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism is the definitive reference work for students and scholars interested in the theory and history of imperialism and anti-imperialism from the sixteenth century to the present day.

This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland.

By the early twentieth century, consumers around the world had developed a taste for Ottoman-grown tobacco.

This book focuses on how Irish remembrance of the First World War impacted the emerging Irish identity in the postcolonial Irish Free State.

This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti.

This volume offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states.

This book examines how and why Portugal and Spain increasingly engaged with women in their African colonies in the crucial period from the 1950s to the 1970s.

This book explores how fin de siecle Britain and Britons displaced spatially-charged apprehensions about imperial decline, urban decay and unpoliced borders onto Jews from Eastern Europe migrating westwards.

This book examines the relationship between Catholic missionaries and the colonial administration in southeastern Belgian Congo.

This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire.

When war engulfed Europe in 1914, the conflict quickly took on global dimensions.

This book comprises 17 chapters derived from new research papers presented at the 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held in Oxford from 13 to 15 September 2018 and jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping and the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

What does it mean to theorize Christianity in light of the decolonial turn?

This book examines Australian colonial and foreign aid policy towards Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia in the age of international development (1945-1975).

This book provides a critical analysis of Donald Trump's mention of General Pershing and his alleged use of bullets dipped in pig's blood to kill 49 out of 50 captured Muslims during the suppression years in the Philippines.