Colonialism and imperialism

This book is the first to offer a concise, accessible overview of the evolution of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire.

Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress.

Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts revisits the definition of a record and extends it to include memory, murals, rock art paintings and other objects.

Wer waren die genialen Köpfe hinter den beeindruckenden Burgen Europas, deren Mauern noch heute die Landschaften prägen?

Libya is a typical example of a colonial or external creation.

This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.

This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.

Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve.

In an increasingly globalised world manifested in greater economic integration, human capital is an important factor.

Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts explores childhood and youth in the Global South.

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin.

The 1935 Government of India Act was arguably the most significant turning point in the history of the British administration in India.

Originally published in 1973, this book begins with the arrival of the Europeans in South Africa.

The Islamic Revolution in 1979 transformed Iranian society and reshaped the political landscape of the Middle East.

This book critically examines new perspectives on the transformations in the Indian diaspora.

The first memoir of the Vietnam War and an all-time classic of war literature|40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION|In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J.

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

Drawing on primary qualitative research, this book explores the experiences and identities of a group of British-born women of Bangladeshi background attending university in London through a Bourdieusian theoretical framework.

This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge strengths-based resource on the subject of Indigenous resilience.

This study explains how Salisbury viewed cultural conflicts between the East and the West, how he treated Oriental nationality and nationalist aspirations in British dominions in the East, and how he directed British policy in the Eastern world in a time when the Western Powers were plunging into a struggle for spheres of predominance.

This is Volume VII, WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING: 1750 - 1850 and is volume II of a collection of writings about ITALY, by Lady Morgan.

India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches examines Indian independence in August 1947 and its multiple afterlives.

The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives-historical, mythological, and literary.

This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a community fleeing religious persecution.

Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "e;Francia,"e; through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern republic integrated into the European Union and struggling with the global legacies of its past.

As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern Indian built environment from the independence struggle until today, this book reveals a history that is largely unknown, not only in the West, but also in India.

Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking.

This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India.

Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus's arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists.

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'.

Examining India-America relations between 1942-62, this book reconsiders the role of America in shaping the imagination of post-colonial India.

A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empireIn this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French sociology in the context of the French empire after World War II.

In 1894 Great Britain invited 'Abd al-Rahman Khan, the amir of Afghanistan, to England for a state visit.

The Korean War is multiple wars.

The political community of Islam grew out of the religious community.

First Published in 1971.

This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental issues.

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

Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa in which thousands of prisoners died in appalling conditions become widely known beyond a handful of specialists.

The Caribbean banana trade is a controversial issue within international affairs.

The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance.

Between 1880 and 1914, tens of thousands of men and women left France for distant religious missions, driven by the desire to spread the word of Jesus Christ, combat Satan, and convert the world's pagans to Catholicism.

In her in-depth study of Harriet Martineau's writings on the evolution of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, Deborah A.

This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in nineteenth century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the eyes of the British scholars, officials, travellers and religious seekers who first encountered it.

The undisputed best introduction to the history of the world-wide pattern of British activity in the nineteenth century, embracing its expansive spirit as well as its formal territorial empire.

Als König Karl II.