Colonialism & Imperialism

In Primitive Normativity Elizabeth W. Williams traces the genealogy of a distinct narrative about African sexuality that British colonial authoriti...

Colonised subjects can play roles that sustain the power structure of coloniality. In this book, Morgan Ndlovu asks why people help support a syste...

In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and colon...

In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States’ acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary ...

The author draws on a dazzling variety of archival and printed sources.... The Dutch Moment is a signal contribution to the field.―Renaissance Quar...

"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia...

An empire invites local collaborators in the making and sustenance of its colonies. Between 1896 and 1910, Japan’s project to colonize Korea was de...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The world-historical significance...

Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, Brit...

With an eye to recovering the experiences of those in frontier zones of contact, Savage Worlds maps a wide range of different encounters between Ge...

Based on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global mi...

Stirring language and appeals to collective action were integral to the battles fought to defend empires and to destroy them. These wars of words u...

Recent scholarship in political thought has closely examined the relationship between European political ideas and colonialism, particularly the wa...

Frontiers of servitude explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery in little-examined printed and archival s...

The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also consistentl...

Cutting across academic boundaries, this volume brings together scholars from different disciplines who have explored together the richness and com...

Russia’s attempt to consolidate its authority in the North Caucasus has exerted a terrible price on both sides since the mid-nineteenth century. Mi...

Governor of the Cordillera tells the story of an American colonial official in the Philippines who took the unpopular position of defending the rig...

Hoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of Indigenous artifacts that serve as ...

After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples—a project they envisioned as spi...

After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples—a project they envisioned as spi...

The book explores a newly compiled corpus of American Gulf War captivity narratives, their claim to truth and their construction of identity and id...

From the Palestinian struggle against Israeli Apartheid, to First Nations' mass campaigns against pipeline construction in North America, Indigenou...

'Fantastic … the most important book on Black British history’ - Akala Black People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version o...

Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourt...

Shows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American history The Unite...

Passionate allegiances to competing theoretical camps have stifled dialogue among today's literary critics, asserts Françoise Lionnet. Discussing a...

In the decades following the era of decolonization, global Christianity experienced a seismic shift. While Catholicism and Protestantism have decli...

Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christ...

This is the first major attempt to view the break-up of Britain as a global phenomenon, incorporating peoples and cultures of all races and creeds ...