Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy studies Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) in relation to maritime criticism.
Exploring the entwined histories of British royal visits to Southern Africa in the twentieth century, this book analyses the clashing voices of dissent and cheering crowds that accompanied royal tours, providing insight into the shifting nature of 'Black loyalism.
This edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today.
In nur wenigen Wochen niedergeschrieben, ist »Herz der Finsternis« Joseph Conrads literarische Bewältigung seiner eigenen Reise auf dem Kongo, von der ihm eine zeitlebens zerrüttete Gesundheit und alptraumhafte Erinnerungen geblieben waren.
Poststructuralism has long been acknowledged to offer a radical critique of the foundational subject as a precursor to affirming a constituted subject.
This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians' forum shopping, the legal practice which resulted in jurisdictional jockeying between an executive, the East India Company, and a judiciary, the King's Court.
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.
This book contributes to global history by examining the connected histories of German and United States colonial empires from the early nineteenth century to the Nazi era.
Based on five years of archival research, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of Britain and Spain's relationship during the growth, apogee and decline of the British Empire.
Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical "e;turn"e; known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lakes, etc.
This book examines the work of prominent South African geologist Alex Du Toit as a means of understanding the debate around continental drift both in segregation-era South Africa and internationally.
When the notion of 'alternative facts' and the alleged dawning of a 'postfactual' world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory.
Grounded in extensive and original ethnographic fieldwork, this book makes a novel contribution to migration studies by examining a European labour migration to the Global South, namely contemporary Portuguese migration to Angola in a postcolonial context.
This book considers three defining movements driven from London and within the region that describe the experience of the Church of England in New England between 1686 and 1786.
This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to explore the lives of indigenous patients and the Catholic women missionaries who nursed them.
Die Vergleichende Kolonialtoponomastik ist ein junger Zweig der Koloniallinguistik und befasst sich mit sämtlichen Fragen, die sich auf Ortsnamen in kolonialen Kontexten beziehen.
Die Vergleichende Kolonialtoponomastik ist ein junger Zweig der Koloniallinguistik und befasst sich mit sämtlichen Fragen, die sich auf Ortsnamen in kolonialen Kontexten beziehen.
This edited volume explores social, economic, political, and cultural practices generated by African, Asian, and Oceanic individuals and groups within the context and aftermath of German colonialism.
This edited volume explores social, economic, political, and cultural practices generated by African, Asian, and Oceanic individuals and groups within the context and aftermath of German colonialism.
This volume addresses the ways the 'native labour' question in the Portuguese late colonial empire in Africa became a recurrent topic of international and transnational debate and regulation after the Second World War.
This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions of 1848 up to the defeat and subsequent downfall of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires in 1918.
Die Studie wurde 2017 vom polnischen Historikerverband (Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne) für den Preis Pro Historia Polonorum als „bestes ausländisches Buch zur polnischen Geschichte der Jahre 2012-17" nominiert.
Die Studie wurde 2017 vom polnischen Historikerverband (Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne) für den Preis Pro Historia Polonorum als „bestes ausländisches Buch zur polnischen Geschichte der Jahre 2012-17" nominiert.
This book provides a long history of France's infamous indigenat regime, from its origins in Algeria to its contested practices and legacies in France's South Pacific territory of New Caledonia.
