Colonialism & Imperialism

The essays in this collection show how histories written in the past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or avoided and disavowe...

Frances presence on the African continent has often been presented as cooperation and part of French cultural policy by policy-makers in Paris and...

Emperor of the World, traces the curious history of the story of the alliances forged by Charlemagne while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople, r...

Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs als...

This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably ...

A war that has killed more than a million Iraqis was a humanitarian intervention, the US army is a force for liberation, and the main threat to wor...

In the twenty years after Ireland joined the UN in 1955, one subject dominated its fortunes: Africa. The first detailed study of Irelands relations...

This volume examines and compares the colonial experiences in the two countries, India and Korea. It juxtaposes some of the common issues faced by ...

The age of steam was the age of Britains global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas. The world see...

This unique collection of essays is the first book to explore the many relationships that developed between Wales and the British overseas empire b...

The Spaniards typically portrayed the conquest and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native peoples in colonial Mesoamerica continue...

In an era of commemoration, France's Colonial Legacies contributes to the debates taking place in France about the place of empire in the contempor...

Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army w...

George Washington Prize FinalistWinner of the Society of the Cincinnati PrizeFascinating Hinderakers meticulous research shows that the Boston Mass...

Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven AwardFew books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.Ari Kel...

WINNER OF THE 2021 DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020From an acclaimed military historian, the de...

In 2005 the Danish government obliged the wish of the Greenlandic Home Rule to commission a historical report on the circumstances surrounding the ...

Most discussions of India's First War of Independence from British colonial rule in 1857 have centered on the role played by the Mughal emperor, th...

Discusses how Britain replicated the Singapore model - the use of imported industrious Chinese labour - to other parts of its empire, with varying...

Todays arguments over Britains relationship with Europe and its place in the world are shaped by its imperial history. The nineteenth century is to...