Colonialism & Imperialism

Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the beg...

Via rigorous study of the legal arguments Spain developed to justify its acts of war and conquest, The Other Side of Empire illuminates Spain's exp...

Freedom Incorporated demonstrates how anticommunist political projects were critical to the United States' expanding imperial power in the age of d...

The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and nor...

What were the cultural factors that held the British world together? How was Britishness understood at home, in the Empire, and in areas of informa...

Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century...

In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the plane...

This is the first major attempt to view the break-up of Britain as a global phenomenon, incorporating peoples and cultures of all races and creeds ...

Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engageme...

In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australias Northern Territory. By the late 193...

Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the 'barbarians' at the gate; or do they also function as comp...

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval ...

A study of the material culture of Egypt during the period of Achaemenid Persian rule, c. 526-404 BCEProvides a clear overview of the archaeologica...

After 'How David Cameron Saved Scotland', satirical author Owen Dudley Edwards comes back with a new book, 'Nations and Nationalisms'. This is a co...

A sweeping overview of world affairs and, especially having come across the name of William Yandell Elliott, Professor of Politics at Harvard throu...

A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan Eloquently discusses the making o...

A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of t...

When Governor John White sailed for England from Roanoke Island in August 1587, he left behind more than 100 men, women and children. They were ...

In the last decade an Iraqi Army and an Afghan National Army were created entirely from scratch, the founding of which was deemed to be a crucial m...

Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spains long presence in? the Pacific Ocean (15211898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growi...

Between 1788 and 1850, more than 1500 Jewish men and women were either transported to Australia as convicts or arrived as free settlers. This imp...