Colonialism & Imperialism

In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupati...

In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actua...

The historical relationship between Scotland and India is a relatively unexplored part of colonial history. This project seeks to re-examine the ...

'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation sur...

'Empire Building' is a new account of the East India Company's impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent's built environment i...

'Hilarious, heartbreaking and utterly extraordinary.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Books of the Year'Superbly entertaining.' Financial Times'Jaw...

Over several centuries, England imposed itself by force and by treaty on the other three nations of the Hiberno-British Isles to form its own Engli...

Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864-1944) was born to a prominent Coptic family on the eve of the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the British occupation ...

Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it m...

Effervescent Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It d...

How can we explain Britains long rule in India beyond the clichés of imperial versus nationalist interpretations? In this new history, Roderick Mat...

In Dangerous Intercourse, Tessa Winkelmann examines interracial social and sexual contact between Americans and Filipinos in the early twentieth ce...

Demolishing the myth that British rule was on the whole advantageous to India, Andrew Hyde shows how Britain''s pursuit of profit brought about the...

WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023 What does it mean to have 'heritage', and how do we perform or undo it? In these daring and sonorous poems,...

Unpacked offers a critical, novel perspective on the Caribbean's now taken-for-granted desirability as a tourist's paradise. Dreams of a tropical v...