Colonialism & Imperialism

The apparent glamour of the Indian Raj continues to fascinate long after the British quit the subcontinent. But along with the beauty of the Indian...

It is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire's historic responsibility for P...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING 2023The late nineteenth century witnessed a rapid increase in colo...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. This book represents th...

Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and popular texts to ephemer...

A compelling exploration of one of the most ill-advised and calamitous interventions in colonial development history. As colonial development to...

George C. Daughan''s magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War ...

Demonstrates, through an investigation of material culture, the complexity of the relationship between rulers and ruled in early nineteenth-century...

As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In ...

Having succeeded in establishing themselves in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, in the early 16th century Spain and Portugal became the first...

With the summer of 2012 marking half a century of independence for Algeria, the Algerian War has been brought into discussions in France once more,...

The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not been res...

A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloa...

A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.Until 1893, Mar...

This study recounts the reasons why the order for the Herero genocide was very likely issued by the Kaiser himself, and why proof of this has not e...

'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of ...

In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950...