Colonialism & Imperialism

'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.' Hobson-Job...

The Chilembwe (or Nyasaland) Rising of January 1915 is one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of resistance in southern Africa. A smal...

Andrew Thomson rethinks the history of US imperialism, from the Cold War to today, to reveal how paramilitaries, militias, mercenaries, private arm...

With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the gan...

From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV seri...

Mahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism...

The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, ma...

Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the coloniality of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino schol...

In Holy War, Mark Anderson shows how the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks is part of a long standing pattern that uses images of the outsider to u...

America's Forgotten Colony examines private US citizens' experiences on Cuba's Isle of Pines to show how American influence adapted and endured in ...

From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, railways became increasingly important in the lives of a growing number of Indians. While allowing million...

A detailed assessment of how Western thinking about India developed in the nineteenth century, focusing on the exceptionally full lives of the scho...

This is the first book to survey in comparative form the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries in the nineteenth a...

The First World War is a subject that has fascinated the public as well as the academic community since the close of hostilities in 1918. Over the ...

Mariano Azuela (Mexico, 18731952) was a medical doctor by profession, recipient of Mexicos Premio Nacional de Literatura (1949), a distinguished me...

The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by Americas systematic interference. Accra, 1958. Africas liberation ...