Colonialism & Imperialism

Today, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment tha...

In Men at Home, Gyanendra Pandey offers a detailed exploration of mens comportment and conduct in the home and the implications of their ambiguous ...

Today, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment tha...

A panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialismAfricas long nineteenth century was a time of revolutionary ferment and cultural inno...

This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract imagined community, but that it...

In Men at Home, Gyanendra Pandey offers a detailed exploration of mens comportment and conduct in the home and the implications of their ambiguous ...

This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depi...

The remarkably creative life of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) has long been an area of scholarly enquiry. Yet, surprisingly, his role as the foun...

This book examines the complexities of womens lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works o...

Drawing on archival and ethnographic work, this book analyzes how indigeneity, Christianity and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Am...

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture...

This book presents the economic history of the English East India Companys trade as it functioned from Madras (Chennai) during the second half of t...

'Africa is a lost cause.' This is a cynical view held widely in the West, in much of the world and even in Africa. Many people in the old European ...

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotionsexistential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoe...

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotionsexistential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoe...

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After...

This book explores the formation of human capital in education, interrogating its social and ethical implications, and examining its role in genera...

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Sovie...

This book examines the connection between affects, mobilisation, and political transformation. Offering unique insights into the affective and emot...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan, China, and both Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Nort...

In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based...

In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based...

In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based...