Colonialism and imperialism

Clive, Proconsul of India (1976) examines the life of the man held by many to be one of the main originators of European imperialism in Asia in the eighteenth century.

This edited collection presents perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of dismantling coloniality in settler societies.

A call to transform the way we think about property, this book examines how capitalism has from its origins sought to enclose or privatize the commons, or land and other forms of property that had been viewed as communally owned, and argues that neoliberal economic policies and the corporate takeovers of urban spaces, prisons, schools, the mass media, farms, and natural resources have failed to serve the public interest.

This book is a history of Asian slaves in colonial Mexico and their journey from bondage to freedom.

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus.

This book explores the history of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of emotion.

Photographic subjects examines photography at royal celebrations during the reign of Queens Wilhelmina (1898-1948) and Juliana (1948-80), a period spanning the zenith and fall of Dutch rule in Indonesia.

This book is a work of political archaeology.

The articles collected in this study, first published in 1993, concentrates on African struggles to maintain their autonomy.

Migration and Mobility (1984) examines the biological aspects of population movement, including genetic, anthropometric and psychological aspects.

Sport has played a central role in modern Ireland's history.

Culturally safe healthcare is rapidly challenging previous notions of cultural competency or cultural sensitivity in healthcare provision.

Satanism is a complex phenomenon that has often been the source of controversy across social and rhetorical contexts.

This book traces the historical development of the World History course as it has been taught in high school classrooms in Texas, a populous and nationally influential state, over the last hundred years.

This book is an enquiry into the elision of the figure of the sovereign, cotton-producing Garo in the colonial archive and its savage transformation into imperialism's quintessential 'primitive' in the period between 1760 CE and 1900 CE.

Histories of Palestine in the pre-1948 period usually assume the emergent Arab-Zionist conflict to be the central axis around which all change revolves.

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained?

The late nineteenth century is generally thought of as a period of imperial enthusiasm and fervour, however, beneath the surface there were currents of disquiet and discontent.

This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War.

Set in the 1950s, The Broken Word is an extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates a dark, terrifying period in British colonial history.

Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era.

An examination of the literary marketplace''s central role in creating the Southern Literary Renaissance.

This book examines the various ways in which colonialism in Zimbabwe is remembered, looking both at how people analyse, perceive, and interpret the past, and how they rewrite that past, elevating some players and their historical agency.

This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emperors.

Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists analyzes the vibrant and often violent political culture of seventeenth-century America, exploring the relationship between early American and early modern British politics through a detailed study of colonial Maryland.

The Arab theatre and cinema are among the most neglected subjects in the studies of Oriental literature and research into the history of theatre.

The role of the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) has long been neglected by historians, in part because they have been viewed as a 'primitive' mass devoid of political consciousness.

In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa.

This book presents a comprehensive history of handloom weaving industry in India to challenge and revise the view that competition from machine-produced textiles destroyed the country's handicrafts as claimed by historians until recently.

Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice.

It is often said that the devil has all the best tunes.

No other decade evokes such contradictory images as the 1970s: reform and emancipation on the one hand, crisis and malaise on the other.

Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art.

On October 1922 Mussolini became head of the Italian government, a situation that would last for twenty years.

A collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field, In God's Empire examines the complex ways in which the spread of Christianity by French men and women shaped local communities, French national prowess, and global politics in the two centuries following the French Revolution.

Through a landmark court case in mid-nineteenth-century colonial India, this book investigates hierarchy and racial difference.

This book is the third in the trilogy of books looking at the comparatively less-known destinations of Sikh migration to non-English speaking countries.

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

This book critically examines the colonial dimensions of restorative justice through the lens of justice policy reform in Jamaica.

Feminism and Empire establishes the foundational impact that Britain's position as leading imperial power had on the origins of modern western feminism.

The concept of 'super-diversity' has received considerable attention since it was introduced in Ethnic and Racial Studies in 2007, reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social complexity.

This book explores the multifaceted experiences of British Turks, particularly focusing on how they navigate and negotiate Islamophobia in contemporary British society.

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This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the last decades of the 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.