Colonialism & Imperialism

Informed by critical race theory and based on a wide range of sources, including official sources, memoirs, and anthropological studies, this book ...

In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the mur...

From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, British women started travelling in any numbers to the East Indies, mostly to accompany husbands, brothers...

This book looks at how Islamic law was practiced in Russia from the conquest of the empire''s first Muslim territories in the mid-1500s to the Russ...

This book, the first of its kind in English, examines the reinvention of loyalism in colonial Taiwan through the lens of literature. It analyzes th...

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgen...

The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of Sou...

When Great Britain took the moral high ground and banned its lucrative export of opium from Imperial India to China, it unleashed a century of crim...

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year A stimulating work on the politics of language. LA Review of Books As globalisa...

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

In The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic? David Ray Griffin traces the trajectory of the American Empire from its founding through to the end ...

A highly illustrated study of the First Afghan War, a bitter setback for British forces in the Great Game played out in the 19th century. In 1839 ...

Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a 'marchlands' in which violen...

This is the story of Southern Rhodesia, from a time of its earliest known inhabitants, the Bushmen, to their displacement by the Bantu; the invasio...

Over the last seven hundred years the United Kingdom has acquired a staggering array of treasures as a direct result of its military activities fr...

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

In The Mau Mau Rebellion, the author describes the background to and the course of a short but brutal late colonial campaign in Kenya. The Mau Mau...

From Mark Twain to the movement against the war in Vietnam, this is the story of ordinary Americans challenging empire. Author Richard Seymour alle...