Colonialism and imperialism

This book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and Australia.

In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States' acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary between domestic and foreign--and between nation and empire.

Der Südseekaufmann Eduard Hernsheim (1847–1917) hätte es eine Räubergeschichte genannt.

It took the former South African Defence Force (SADF) less than four hours to kill more than eight hundred Namibian refugees at Cassinga on May 4, 1978.

Las Actas son el tipo documental más importante producido por el Cabildo durante el período colonial, por ello la relevancia de su transcripción trasciende el ámbito local.

Who was Tse Tsan Tai?

Decolonization represented the end of colonial rule, but did not eradicate imperial and colonial categories and mythologies.

Joan-Pau Rubies brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture.

This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven.

This book focuses on the Russian Revolution of 1917, the legacy of the First World War, and Mussolini and Italian fascism - offering an important overview of the major themes of the early 20th century.

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation.

This book analyzes the roots of one of the main human activities that can be developed in natural and agricultural ecosystems: tourism.

This book delves into the history of the commercialization of wildlife in India.

A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialismAfter the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically?

This volume probes into the mechanisms of how languages are created, legitimized, maintained, or destroyed in the service of the extant nation-states across Central Europe.

This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis.

Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and 1945 in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, botany, cartography, medicine, statistics, and zoology.

The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern.

This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven.

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation.

This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis.

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism - that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon - needs to be rethought.

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.

South Sudan: The State We Aspire To was conceived and written mid-2009, two years before the conduct of the referendum on self-determination.

Aufstieg und Fall des Hamburger Woermann-Konzerns während der deutschen Kolonialherrschaft.

Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of 'Creolization' in terms of duration, temporality, population, and importantly, in regional scope, which also impact climate and the practices of slavery that are typically included and excluded from consideration.

How do we try to make the world a better place, when the challenges of poverty, disease, war, conflict, and climate change continue to impact millions of lives?

This timely book fills a lacuna in the extensive literature on Churchill's life and times.

The French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was home to one of the richest public theatre traditions of the colonial-era Caribbean.

This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century.

This edited volume systematically analyzes the connection between xenophobia, nativism, and Pan-Africanism.

This book mediates between postcolonial positions that criticize Marxist approaches (and Marx's writings) for their Eurocentrism and defenders of Marx, who claim that this accusation is a myth.

Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empires of Europe - Finland.

Woodrow Wilson's presidential administration (1913-1921) was marked not only by America's participation in World War I, but also by numerous armed interventions by the United States in other countries.

This book explores the formation of human capital in education, interrogating its social and ethical implications, and examining its role in generating policies and practices that govern curriculum studies as an academic field.

Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world.

In the decades following England's 1655 conquest of Spanish Jamaica, the western Caribbean became the site of overlapping and competing claims-to land, maritime spaces, and people.

Into the Blue is widely regarded as a literary classic.

Karl Bodenschatz was the Richthofen squadron adjutant.

This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 1767-1820, for the first time publishing this globally scattered material in one place, thereby revolutionizing its availability and understanding of the activities of a key figure who helped organize and publish a series of missions to penetrate the African interior, mainly from West Africa and by crossing the Sahara from Cairo and Tripoli.

Following the Brexit vote, this book offers a timely historical assessment of the different ways that Britain's economic future has been imagined and how British ideas have influenced global debates about market relationships over the past two centuries.

Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, this book offers fresh interpretations of established black Atlantic scholarship from the perspective of those typically elided from its ideological purview and existential narrative.

Not every lie sounds untrue.

A page-turning story of the Pilgrims, the courageous band of freedom-seekers who set out for a new life for themselves and forever changed the course of history.

This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspective, analysing how ideas and visions of empire took shape in imperial practice from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Well-grounded on abundant Japanese language sources which have been underused, this book uncovers the League of Nations' works in East Asia in the inter-war period.

This book explores perceptions of toleration and self-identity through an analysis of otherness' real experience of Italian travellers, Catholic missionaries and Maltese proto-journalists within Mediterranean border-spaces.

How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities?

This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism.