Colonialism and imperialism

This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction.

This book explores the history of public land tenure records, which first began in colonial Massachusetts as English settlers and Native Americans tried to resolve differing ideas about rights to land in the seventeenth century.

This book examines literary representations of Sydney and its waterway in the context of Australian modernism and modernity in the interwar period.

This book explores national attitudes to remembering colonialism in Britain and France.

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.

This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1855 and held now by the British Museum.

This edited volume brings together essays that examine recent scholarship on the history of the Rio de la Plata region (present-day Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil) from the colonial period to the nineteenth century.

This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d'Angouleme, the duchesse de Berry, Queen of the French Marie-Amelie, and Adelaide d'Orleans.

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

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.

This book defies long standing assumptions about indigenous societies in the Americas and shows that non-heteronormative sexualities were already present among native peoples in different regions of what is now Latin America before the arrival of European colonizers.

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This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America.

This book presents knowledge from Indigenous women who enact decolonization and wellbeing through physical activity.

This book examines how the rulers in the Persian Gulf responded to the British announcement of military withdrawal from the Gulf in 1968, ending 150 years of military supremacy in the region.

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.

This book provides a new analysis of the contested history of one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century - the Algerian War/ the Algerian Revolution between 1954 and 1962.

This book explores the culture of migration that emerged in Malawi in the early twentieth century as the British colony became central to labour migration in southern Africa.

This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930.

This edited collection examines how Western European countries have responded and been influenced by the apartheid system in South Africa.

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.

"e;Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized and stored.

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.

This book will be the first to deeply analyze the Swedish court and monarchy through a longue duree perspective to show the crucial role of the court in maintaining a relationship between the monarchy and nobility throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the 'special relationship' between Southern Rhodesia and South Africa.

This book explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India.

This book offers a detailed investigation of George S.

This collection brings together a range of case studies by both established and early career scholars to consider the nexus between business and development in post-colonial Africa.

This book explores the life of Robert Lyall, surgeon, botanist, voyager, British Agent to the court of Madagascar.

This book examines Australian colonial and foreign aid policy towards Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia in the age of international development (1945-1975).

European colonization played a major role in the acquisition, formation, and destruction of different ways of knowing.

This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis.

This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland.

This book is a philosopher's view into the chaotic postcolony of Zimbabwe, delving into Robert Mugabe's Will to Power.

This book examines how the Crown has performed as Head of State across the UK and post war Commonwealth during times of political crisis.

This book traces American engagement in the English-speaking Caribbean from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, and is the first to examine the policies of Presidents George W.

This book offers an institutional history of the British Legation in Kabul, which was established in response to the independence of Afghanistan in 1919.

This edited collection draws together new historical writing on the Commonwealth.

This book is an innovative presentation of the way in which the descendants of Muslim immigrants from Algeria in France perceive and deal with multiple social identifications.

"e;This book provides a deep reading of Nikolai Karazin's works and his relationship with Central Asia.

This volume views the study of disease as essential to understanding the key historical developments underpinning the foundation of contemporary Indian Ocean World (IOW) societies.

This book explores concepts of decolonisation, identity, and nation in the white settler society of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between 1964 and 1979.

This book reconstructs the history of a group of British Quaker families and their involvement in the process of settler colonialism in early nineteenth-century Australia.

By the early twentieth century, consumers around the world had developed a taste for Ottoman-grown tobacco.

In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American women and white traders and trappers.

In the decades before colonial partition in Africa, the Church Missionary Society embarked on the first serious effort to evangelize in an independent Muslim state.

Now in its second edition, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism is the definitive reference work for students and scholars interested in the theory and history of imperialism and anti-imperialism from the sixteenth century to the present day.

This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspective, analysing how ideas and visions of empire took shape in imperial practice from the seventeenth century to the present day.

This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti.

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