Colonialism and imperialism

This book advances a new understanding of acculturation processes for older migrants, drawing on empirical data from migrants of Chinese heritage in Australia.

This volume analyzes the trial of Bahadur Shah, a watershed moment in the 19th-century colonial history of India.

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Building on archival work undertaken in France and fieldwork undertaken in Southeast Asia, Museum-Making in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia provides a critical analysis of museum histories and development in three former colonial territories.

This book examines the radical intervention of the German-Australian Lutheran missionary F.

Analysis of the American presence on the Isle of Pines illustrates how US influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba.

In the mid-twentieth century, the challenges raised by Africa's emergence into the modern world touched on every aspect of national and international life.

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.

This book combines an analysis of the ideas and policies that governed the British experience of decolonization.

This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 CE.

Regular commercial contacts between Europe and Asia date back to at least the early years of the Christian era, but the pattern of trade underwent a structural modification following the Portuguese discovery of a route to the East Indies via the Cape of Good Hope.

The First Imperial Age explores with subtlety and vigour the origins of Europe's rise to world hegemony in the early modern period, in a survey which brings together a huge range of Geoffrey Scammell's own and other recent research.

Fighting Rommel examines how and why some armies innovate under pressure while others do not.

This book challenges existing accounts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which political developments are explained in terms of the rise of the nation-state.

In 1961 a group of men arrived in Cambridge to join the Overseas Services Course before going on to work in the Provincial Administration of the Northern Rhodesia Government.

This book examines approaches to reconciliation and peacebuilding in settler colonial, post-conflict, and divided societies.

From the mid 18th century up till after memories of the Napoleonic wars and the glories of 'Nelson's navy' had faded, the Royal Navy was the bulwark of Britain's defence and the safeguard of trade and imperial expansion.

Divided societies, tormented pasts, and unrepentant perpetrators.

In this volume Gonzalez explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today, almost two centuries after the dismantling of colonialism proper.

In this book, influential development practitioners reflect on their careers by writing letters of advice to their younger selves.

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This book presents one of the first accounts of Christianity in colonial India by a nun.

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This book explores formations of oceanic kinship in transnational American literature and culture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Remembering Independence explores the commemoration and remembrance of independence following the great wave of decolonisation after the Second World War.

This book examines the relatively unknown history of movements for democratic rights in French colonies.

France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today.

An insider's account of the complex relations between the United States and post-Soviet UkraineThe Eagle and the Trident provides the first comprehensive account of the development of U.

This book delves into the history of the Horn of Africa diaspora in Italy and Europe through the stories of those who fled to Italy from East African states.

A study of the complex role of the seaside as a leisure space in colonial Hong Kong.

A compelling account of the establishment of Tanzania's stable and ambitious government in the face of external threats and internal turmoil.

What was the course and consequence of the British Empire?

Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile's expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed.

Beyond Macaulay provides a radical and comprehensive history of Indian education in the early colonial era - from the establishment of the Calcutta Madrasa in 1780 until the end of the East India Company's rule and the beginning of the administration by the crown in 1860.

American Foreign Relations: A New Diplomatic History is a compelling narrative history of American foreign policy from the early settlement of North America to the present.

This book offers an intellectual history of colonial Buganda, using previously unseen archives to recast the end of empire in East Africa.

The historian and founder of the Anglo-Zulu War Historical Society presents his groundbreaking account of the Battle of Isandlwana.

Drawing on the latest contemporary research from an internationally acclaimed group of scholars, Law, history, colonialism brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in a singular exploration of imperialism.

On March 5, 1770, after being harassed for two years during their occupation of Boston, British soldiers finally lost control, firing into a mob of rioting Americans, killing several of them, including Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave and sailor, the first African American patriot killed.

Der Alte sitzt am Ufer der Loire, wippt vor und zurück und murmelt monoton vor sich hin: Taba-Taba-Taba.

James William Newland's (1810-1857) career as a showman daguerreotypist began in the United States but expanded into Central and South America, across the Pacific to New Zealand and colonial Australia and onto India.

This book recasts one of the most well-studied and popularly-beloved eras in history: the tumultuous span from the 1485 accession of Henry VII to the 1603 death of Elizabeth I.

A new history of Loyalism using revolutionary New England as a case study.

This book presents a study of the role and functions of Camfranglais (CFrA) for diasporic Cameroonians living in the West, showcasing how closely language relates to identity and the role CFrA plays in negotiations of 'home' and 'belonging' for these diasporic Cameroonians.

How do you allow someone or something to become larger than life without knowing it?

This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean.

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

The Arab protest movements of 2010-2011 gave momentum and inspiration to unprecedented political mobilisations of migrants of Arab origin, whether first generation, second generation, or more, in Europe, North and South-America.