Colonialism and imperialism

This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcutta, and at the Mughal court in Delhi in the late 1830s and 1840s.

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

The first major history of photography from coastal East AfricaThe ports of the Swahili coastZanzibar and Mombasa among themhave long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge.

This book provides an important study of a short-lived government making foreign policy in the shadow of an impending general election.

The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign.

Based on archival research covering more than two centuries and most former British colonies (West Indies, India, Singapore, Malaya, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to slow its eventual decline after World War II.

This book is a vivid history of Madagascar from the pre-colonial era to decolonization, examining a set of French colonial projects and perceptions that revolve around issues of power, vulnerability, health, conflict, control and identity.

This book offers an international breadth of historical and theoretical insights into recent efforts to "e;decolonise"e; legal education across the world.

The Japanese occupation of both British Borneo - Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo - and Dutch Borneo in 1941 to 1945 is a much understudied subject.

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

Speaking to a broader global preoccupation with the state of languages and language development, this book considers issues surrounding the diverse languages, linguistic communities, and cultures of Zimbabwe.

This book investigates the beginnings of Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the Spanish invasion of northern Morocco and the twenty-seven-month occupation of the city of Tetouan from 1859 to 1862.

Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World.

Der Bürgermeister von Jerusalem, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, schrieb 1899, beunruhigt über die Forderung nach einer jüdischen Heimstätte in Palästina, einen Brief an Theodor Herzl: Das Land habe eine einheimische Bevölkerung, die ihre Vertreibung nicht akzeptieren würde.

This is an authoritative companion that is global in scope, recognizing the presence of African Diaspora artists across the world.

Monsoon Voyagers follows the voyage of a single dhow, theCrooked, along with its captain and crew, from Kuwait to port cities around the Persian Gulf and Western Indian Ocean, from 1924 to 1925.

Since the partition of India in 1947, Jammu & Kashmir has been a site of frequent unrest and violence.

Joseph De Sapio examines how individuals not only understood their contacts with industrial modernity as distinct from the inherited traditional rhythms of the eighteenth century, but how they conceived of their own positions within the increasingly sophisticated political, social, and commercial paradigms of the Victorian years.

A dramatic illustrated exploration of the infamous massacre of 1622, and the events of a pivotal conflict in colonial American history.

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The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britains most humiliating defeat as an imperial power.

The causes of the First World War were disputed before the first shots had even been fired.

The political conflict during Mexico's Reform era in the mid-nineteenth century was a visceral battle between ideologies and people from every economic and social class.

Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence.

This book introduces non-specialist readers to the history of how human societies have sought to control, use and exploit our oceans, seas and shorelines over time in different geographical and cultural contexts.

In 1859 the British "e;imported"e; 445 German settler families to strengthen the colonial borders in British Kaffraria (now Eastern Cape) in South Africa.

Although there have been a number of studies on Black resistance, very few of these have focused exclusively on such a wide range of resistance campaigns and strategies within a single volume.

This volume focuses on the cultural memory and mediation of the 1964 Zanzibar revolution, analyzing it,s continuing reverberations in everyday life.

This edited volume is about the rekindled investment in the figure of the first president Julius K.

Sata was a giant figure in Zambia's political landscape for over thirty years.

Pio Gama Pinto was born in Kenya on March 31, 1927.

,It is my duty to take the message of revolt to other[s].

Kenya's War of Independence restores Kenya,s stolen history to its rightful place, stripped of colonial interpretations.

The concepts of democracy and good governance have been at the centre of criticism of governments all over the world.

Rwanda: Rebuilding of a Nation is a story that takes the reader through a sweeping panorama of Rwanda,s history, from its recent past as a nearfailed state to its present as a beacon of hope and successful innovations.

The dawn of the twenty-first century heralded an apparent change of fortunes for most sub-Saharan African economies, with annual growth averaging over 5% for fifteen years.

Whether Africa is developed or not, depends on how and what one addresses.

Words like ,colonialism, and ,empire, were once frowned upon in the U.

Africa,s Best and Worst Presidents seeks to deconstruct the current superstructure that colonialism created and maintains.

As Julius Nyerere once noted, Africa has largely been the continent of peace, though this fact has not been widely publicised.

Two volumes of school textbooks have notably led to self repulsion and attraction by the other peculiar to the black African elite.

Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years.

Professor Russell-Wood's detailed studies of Brazilian social history in the colonial era have long been recognised as model contributions to the history of class, race, gender and religion.

This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its benefits persist.

In this comprehensive, well-reasoned, critical, richly documented and boldly argued account on the Anglophone/Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia crisis, John Forje, a foremost scholar of identity politics in Cameroon, offers insightful explorations and explanations of histories and cultures of telling truth to power that have come to be associated with the people of the English-speaking region of Cameroon.

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