Colonialism & Imperialism

The history of the often-overlooked chewa Ethiopian warriors and their crucial role in defending their homeland against invasion, as well as their ...

Violence was prominent in Frances conquest of a colonial empire, and the use of force was integral to its control and regulation of colonial territ...

In 1912, Rash Behari Bose made his dramatic entrance into India's anti-colonial freedom movement when he orchestrated a bomb attack against the Bri...

Buildings provide tremendous insights into the character of imperialism, not least in the manner in which Western forms were spread across the glob...

Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the co...

Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years.'Masterful ... you won...

'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye for...

At the beginning of 2000, with the launch of the so-called Third Chimurenga, Zimbabwean nationalism revealed some of its most grotesque aspects, re...

On Shedding an Obsolete Past provides a much-needed and comprehensive critique of recent US national security policies in both the Trump and Biden ...

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the worlds first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to ...

The independence movements of Spanish America in the early nineteenth century constitute one of the main junctures in Latin American history. Not o...