Colonialism and imperialism

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism examines the global history of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination from ancient times to the present day.

To what extent do women accept, adjust and challenge the intersecting and shifting relations of cultural, political and religious discourses that organize their (sexual) lives?

The global phenomenon of decolonization was born in the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This book explores the interaction between science and society and the development of forensic science as well as the historical roots of crime detection in colonial India.

This collection examines the role of Britain in the Islamic world.

This book explores how public commentary framed Australian involvement in the Waikato War (1863-64), the Sudan crisis (1885), and the South African War (1899-1902), a succession of conflicts that reverberated around the British Empire and which the newspaper press reported at length.

This book celebrates the career of the eminent historian of the British Empire John M.

This book offers an analysis of the decolonisation process across three different regions around the world: Central America, Southeast Asia and the Caucasus.

This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time.

This collection provides new insights into the 'Age of Revolutions', focussing on state trials for treason and sedition, and expands the sophisticated discussion that has marked the historiography of that period by examining political trials in Britain and the north Atlantic world from the 1790s and into the nineteenth century.

This Palgrave Pivot showcases new research on M.

This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism.

This book examines a diverse set of civic war memorials in North East England commemorating three clusters of conflicts: the Crimean War and Indian Rebellion in the 1850s; the 'small wars' of the 1880s; and the Boer War from 1899 to 1902.

This book will be the first to deeply analyze the Swedish court and monarchy through a longue duree perspective to show the crucial role of the court in maintaining a relationship between the monarchy and nobility throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This book examines the role of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society.

This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930.

In this edifying volume Sarah Corona and Claudia Zapata extrapolate the causes for the divisions between groups in Latin American society, bringing their years of experience investigating the conditions and consequences of heterogeneity in the region.

This work examines the attempt by the governments of Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa to defy the drive for African independence in the 1960s and 70s, and the international community's response.

This book provides the first ever intelligence history of Iraq from 1941 to 1945, and is the third and final volume of a trilogy on regional intelligence and counterintelligence operations that includes Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2014), and Espionage and Counterintelligence in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2015).

This book is the first study to engage with the relationship between cosmopolitan political thought and the history of global conflicts.

This volume explores how France's 'modernising mission' unfolded during the post-war period and its reverberations in the decades after empire.

First published in 1978, Britain and the Politics of Rhodesian Independence is a study of British policy towards Rhodesia and an account of the failure of both Labour and Conservative governments to find a satisfactory solution to its 'decolonization'.

A leading scholar of British political thought explores the relationship between liberalism and empireReordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire.

This important anthology provides students and teachers with voices of social and global justice that have been marginalized or forgotten by history.

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa.

How presidents forged the American centuryThis book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices.

Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "e;coloniality"e; of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars.

This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions.

The years between 1450 and 1550 marked the end of one era in world history and the beginning of another.

This book examines the various factors that have influenced the growth and development process of contemporary Africa.

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States.

An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide"e;When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population.

This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand.

This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782-1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818-22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences.

History, heritage, and colonialism explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin.

This book traces the evolution of the postcolonial state and the social contract in Egypt.

A work of radical care and love, a study guide for the urgency of the moment Dian Million, author of Therapeutic NationsGuides us through confrontation with counterinsurgency in empires proxy wars, colonies, prisons and schools Frances Madeson, author of Cooperative VillageAn incendiary political and philosophical reflection Ken Fero, radical filmmaker and convenor of The Peoples Tribunal on Police KillingsAs we step into an era of rising fascism and normalized genocide, Confronting Counterinsurgency is an invaluable contribution to the fightback.

Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements.

This book is one of the first edited volumes on the current Israel/Palestine conflict-the Gaza Nakba 2023-24.

In April 1917, the United States ended its nonintervention policy and entered World War I as an "e;Associated Power"e; to aid the Allies in their fight against the Central Powers.

Europe's great colonial empires have long been a thing of the past, but the memories they generated are still all around us.

This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict.

This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict.

This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy.

This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy.

This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria's communist movement.

David Livingstone, the 'missionary-explorer', has attracted more commentary than nearly any other Victorian hero.

This original and exciting book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies.

The description of South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population.

This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century.