Colonialism and imperialism

This book explores the legal culture of the Parsis, an ethno-religious community unusually invested in the colonial legal system of British India and Burma.

A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific.

The Komagata Maru incident has become central to ongoing debates on Canadian racism, immigration, multiculturalism, citizenship and Indian nationalist resistance.

This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity in the Ottoman Empire.

Human Insufficiency argues that early modern writers depict the human political subject as physically vulnerable in order to naturalize slavery.

The volume explores the role religion had in charity and philanthropy in the long nineteenth-century.

This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the twentieth century.

Leprosy, widely mentioned in different religious texts and ancient scriptures, is the oldest scourge of humankind.

Local Government in West Africa (1964) examines colonial and independent local government in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

This collection contributes to emerging work in critical sociolinguistics, using a multidisciplinary and multiscalar approach to understanding the diasporic experience in the Russian-speaking world.

The newly discovered papers and colourfully-written letters of Anglo-Irish Sir Henry Dobbs, which form the backbone of this book, reveal his importance in the development of the modern Middle East.

This book offers a global history of civilian, military and gendarmerie-style policing around the First World War.

Britain and Nyasaland (1964) is a study of the political development of Nyasaland under British control.

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.

This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others.

First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch East and West India Companies.

In what are generally understood as unsettled times, this book explores the possibility and desirability of bringing integrated theory back into globalization research.

This book reconsiders the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the United States and its consequent cultural and literary histories.

In October of 1756 Sarah Folkes wrote home to her children in London from Jamaica.

American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history and development of literature in the United States, but also the national characteristics that have arisen out of America's unique background.

Museums and Atlantic Slavery explores how slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and enslaved people are represented through words, visual images, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in museums in Europe and the Americas.

As seen from the perspective of 1492, the medieval expansion of Latin Europe was nowhere as dramatic or enduring as in the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic.

Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create.

This book traces the emergence of wildlife policy in colonial eastern and central Africa over the course of a century.

This book is a critical reposition of the study of military regimes in Africa.

Geography & Ethnic Pluralism (1984) examines the debate around pluralism - the segmentation of population by race and culture - as a social and state issue, and explores this issue in Third World and metropolitan contexts.

Examining the widespread phenomenon of human trafficking in Vietnam during the period of French colonial rule, this book focuses on the practice of kidnapping or stealing Vietnamese women and children for sale in Chinese markets from the 1870s through to the 1940s.

Representations of indigenous peoples, while never static, have always served the interests of settler-colonialism.

How has the valley of Kashmir, famed for its beauty and tranquility, become the focus of a dispute with the potential for nuclear conflict?

Focusing on works by Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson, and Bernardine Evaristo, Katharine Burkitt investigates the relationship between literary form and textual politics in postcolonial narrative poems and verse-novels.

Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past.

At the start of the third Christian millennium we are aware of massive political, economic and ideological changes which condition the chances of liberty, wealth and equality.

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This book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries were said to be playing catch up with the West, and in the field of development cooperation, they were classified as 'new donors.

By the end of the 20th century, the ethnic question had resurfaced in public debate.

As South Africa moves towards majority rule, and blacks begin to exercise direct political power, apartheid becomes a thing of the past - but its legacy in South African history will be indelible.

Adopting a uniquely critical lens, this volume analyzes the relationship between forced migration, the migrations of people, and subsequent impacts on education.

This book analyses Rabindranath Tagore's contribution to Bengali drama and theatre.

An investigation of the Atlantic origins of the American Revolution, focusing on the British navy''s impressment of American ships and mariners.

Over the course of the nineteenth century, most of the Theravada world of Southeast Asia came under the colonial domination of European powers.

First published in 1907, this volume emerged in response to the migration of Indo-Chinese labourers within the British Empire.

Buildings of Empire takes the reader on an exciting journey through thirteen territories of the British Empire.

From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways.

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