Colonialism and imperialism

Swaziland-recently renamed Eswatini-is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system.

This book explores the experiences of 'Indo-Mozambicans,' citizens and residents of Mozambique who can trace their origins to the Indian subcontinent, a region affected by competing colonialisms during the twentieth century.

The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives investigates the role that Macao played as a meeting place of the East and the West during this period of time and its decline as a Portuguese colony in the eyes of the Europeans.

This book delves into the history of the Horn of Africa diaspora in Italy and Europe through the stories of those who fled to Italy from East African states.

The second of two volumes, this book situates the drafting of the Irish Constitution within broader transnational constitutional currents.

Brilliantly reconstructed from contemporary narratives, The Last Outlaws is both a gripping work of historical true crime and a richly revealing examination of our nation at its birth.

This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial contact zones.

This book examines the deep roots of racism in the mental health system.

Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for centuries.

Development Discourse and Global History introduces readers to the shifting ways in which people have been talking and writing about 'development' over time, and the rules governing the conversation.

This collection brings together essays examining the international influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and sea trade.

This book challenges existing accounts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which political developments are explained in terms of the rise of the nation-state.

This book focuses on the departure of Britain's 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societies.

This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare.

This volume offers a new understanding of the role of the media in the Portuguese Empire, shedding light on the interactions between communications, policy, economics, society, culture, and national identities.

This book brings together from four years of study on Nigerian contemporary art's internationalization.

This book addresses the interplay between collaboration and resistance during the Revolutionary/Napoleonic era in the Duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, renamed States of Parma in 1802 and Department of Taro in 1808.

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

This book examines Joseph Kamiru Gikubu's impact on Kenyan youth education.

This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century.

This volume offers innovative insights into and approaches to the multiple historical intersections between distinct modalities of internationalism and imperialism during the twentieth century, across a range of contexts.

Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have brought to light the importance of a historical approach to the notion of Britishness and religion.

Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir.

This book shows how the police functioned in the cities of the Napoleonic Empire.

This book examines the experience of post-colonial territories and their attempts to manage ethnic communities within their countries.

This book examines the native Irish experience of conquest and colonisation in Ulster in the first decades of the seventeenth century.

In tenth-century Europe and particularly in Germany, imperial women were able to wield power in ways that were scarcely imaginable in earlier centuries.

This book explores the assertions made by Irish nationalists of a parallel between Ireland under British rule and Poland under Russian, Prussian and Austrian rule in the long nineteenth century.

This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents.

This book explores the ramifications of 1917, arguing that it was a cataclysmic year in world history.

This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d'Angouleme, the duchesse de Berry, Queen of the French Marie-Amelie, and Adelaide d'Orleans.

This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement.

This book examines how slave traders interacted with and resisted the British suppression campaign in the nineteenth-century western Indian Ocean.

This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others.

This work analyzes the history of the application of Islamic law (Shari`ah) in Nigeria.

This book draws on over twenty years' investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and other former British settler colonies.

This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial Kenya.

This book throws new light on the impact of informal 'old boy' networks on British decolonisation.

This book takes a timely look at histories of radical Jewish movements, their modes of Holocaust memorialisation, and their relationships with broader anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles.

This book explores the evolution of Canadian and Australian national identities in the era of decolonization by evaluating educational policies in Ontario, Canada, and Victoria, Australia.

This volume collects new angles and perspectives on issues shaping the development of the Caribbean.

This book deals with one of the most pervasive ways by which people have addressed authority throughout history: petitioning.

This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America.

This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth.

This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers' understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home.

This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

These essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, politically, culturally, and economically.

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.

Violence and intimacy were critically intertwined at all stages of the settler colonial encounter, and yet we know surprisingly little of how they were connected in the shaping of colonial economies.

This book examines the role of foreign languages and cultures in the Algerian educational system, highlighting how cultural imperialism and supremacy persist through damaging language ideologies and the privileging of colonial languages such as French and English.