Colonialism and imperialism

This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides.

Punjab, 'the pride of British India', attracted the cream of the Indian Civil Service, many of the most influential of whom were Irish.

This book presents an innovative investigation of the policies of the Indian Congress during the late colonial period.

This book explores the complex relationship between nationalism and liberal thought in the Arab East during the first half of the twentieth century.

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

The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of cutting-edge research into the communities, cultures, and colonies that comprised colonial America, with a focus on the processes through which communities were created, destroyed, and recreated that were at the heart of the Atlantic experience.

For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia--the last British colony in what became the United States--enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid.

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Gold Dust (1980) looks at the adventures and ordeals, delusions and successes and catastrophes of the men and women - the forty-niners - caught up in the gold rush.

This volume deals mainly with Swann's life on and around Lake Tanganyika, a life that brought him knowledge of many African peoples living on the lake's shores.

Elections and Democratization in Ukraine analyses the role of competitive elections in the Ukraine's crucial democratic transition period of 1989 to 1998, focusing on how Ukrainian voters make vote choices and which electoral cleavages are most important.

Britannia's Auxiliaries provides the first wide-ranging attempt to consider the continental European contribution to the eighteenth-century British Empire.

Pedro de Alvarado is best known as the right-hand man of Hernando Cortes in the conquest of Mexico (1519-21) and the ruthless conqueror of Guatemala some years later.

In 1953, John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson shook the foundations of imperial history with their essay 'The Imperialism of Free Trade'.

Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine.

In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places of worship.

A radically revisionist account of the life and political career of Enoch Powell.

Is Stuart Hall a Cultural Studies Scholar or a Postcolonial Scholar?

The Ojibwe or Anishinaabe are a native American people of the northern Great Lakes region.

During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe.

Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today.

This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years.

The Americanization Syndrome (1987) examines the historical role of education in the process of 'Americanization'.

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.

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and Canadian rural communities.

This book draws on participatory ethnographic research to understand how rural Colombian women work to dismantle the coloniality of power.

After the oil discoveries of the early 1930s, Bahrain rapidly became an oil exporting country with a relatively high income per capita.

Africa's Slaves Today, first published in 1975, examines the question of the persistence of slavery in modern Africa.

This book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised.

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.

Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L.

This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names.

Clever, attractive and ambitious, intellectually daring and physically courageous, Cornelia Sorabji was a truly remarkable woman.

The essays in this volume, written by leading historians and a former British foreign secretary, survey the strategy, politics and personalities of British peacemaking in 1919.

Exploring the fascinating history behind Iranian-Jewish immigration to Israel, this book offers a rare and untold history of one of Israel's Middle Eastern Jewish populations.

This is the first book to examine the lives and works of women photographers active in the settler colonial nations of the Pacific Rim from 1857-1930.

The Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of Vietnamese migrations and diasporas, including the post-1975 diaspora, one of the most significant and highly visible diasporas of the late twentieth century.

During the First World War, Britain was the epicentre of global mass internment and deportation operations.

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United States.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

For more than 500 years, the Portuguese built or adapted fortifications along the coasts of Africa, Asia and South America.

On the eve of the twentieth century, Joseph Gallieni and Hubert Lyautey claimed to have devised a new approach to the consolidation of colonial acquisitions.

East Africa (1971) examines the century from 1870 that saw the emergence of East Africa from an ancient isolation into the modern world.

Reconsidering Interpretation of Heritage Sites chronicles and problematizes the representation of the eighteenth century in museums and heritage sites while also challenging public historians to alter their perceptions of what might be possible when interpreting such sites.

Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades.