Colonialism and imperialism

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were.

Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve.

Of the many European territorial recon?

Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development, but how do these ideals sit with the day-to-day reality of marginalised communities struggling with poverty, precarity, and the deprivation of human rights?

Masters and servants explores the politics of colonial mastery and domestic servitude in the neighbouring British colonies of Singapore and Darwin.

This volume explores the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa.

This book offers new insight into the end of the British Empire in the Middle East.

This volume explores how imperial powers established and expanded their empires through decisions that were often based on exaggerated expectations and wishful thinking, rather than on reasoned and scientific policies.

This book offers new insight into the end of the British Empire in the Middle East.

This volume explores the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa.

Masters and servants explores the politics of colonial mastery and domestic servitude in the neighbouring British colonies of Singapore and Darwin.

This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand.

Cultures of decolonisation combines studies of visual, literary and material cultures in order to explore the complexities of the 'end of empire' as a process.

This study examines the ritual space of nineteenth-century royal tours of empire and the diverse array of historical actors who participated in them.

This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong in the second half of the twentieth century.

This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932.

The First World War was the first 'total war'.

This volume explores how imperial powers established and expanded their empires through decisions that were often based on exaggerated expectations and wishful thinking, rather than on reasoned and scientific policies.

This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand.

This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932.

Cultures of decolonisation combines studies of visual, literary and material cultures in order to explore the complexities of the 'end of empire' as a process.

This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire.

What were the cultural factors that held the British world together?

This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong in the second half of the twentieth century.

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 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.

History, heritage, and colonialism explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin.

History, heritage, and colonialism explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin.

At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly connection.

At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly connection.

Engines for Empire examines the use of the railway by the British army from the 1830s to 1914, a period of domestic political strife and unprecedented imperial expansion.

On July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes and a ground invasion of Gaza, that lasted 51 days, leaving over 2,000 people dead, the vast majority of whom were Gazan civilians.

John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers.

For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the center of one of the world's most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises.

Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave.

In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo.

In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy.

The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders.

Cockburn was the first Western journalist to warn of the dangers posed by Islamic State.

From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance.

Much has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination.

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million displaced Gazans, tens of thousands of destroyed homes, and more than 2,000 deaths-and, yet, it was only the latest in a long series of assaults endured by Palestinians isolated in Gaza.

In this urgent response to violence, racism and increasingly aggressive methods of coercion, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of armed conflict, a process integral to how the West prosecutes its wars.

Maxwell Fox didn't know what he would witness in France.

"Para gran parte de la historiografía, la figura de José Celestino Mutis remite inmediatamente al proceso de Ilustración e incluso a la independencia de lo que hoy es Colombia.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.