Colonialism & Imperialism

On 28 June 1914, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated on a visit to Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist called Gavrilo Princip. T...

The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial crisis Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their ch...

The British Empire was the most powerful empire known to the modern world, but power and confidence were ebbing by the mid-20th century. Aspects of...

With an empire stretching across central Mexico, unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs seemed poised on the brink of a golden age in...

When it comes to American Indian treaties, the American polity too often forgets the realities of history. Prevailing perceptions are often not onl...

This book is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance t...

European colonial conquest included many instances of indigenous peoples being exterminated. Cases where invading commercial stock farmers clash...

Memoirs of the B?dsh?h? Mosque is an unconventional attempt to bring together diverse aspects of the B?dsh?h? Mosque in a single narrative-aspects ...

William Bartram denied their existence; history buried their stories.In his famous and influential book Travels, the naturalist William Bartram des...

This volume contains translationsmany appearing for the first time in the English languageof major literary, critical, and historical essays from t...

In 1878, H.M. High Commissioner for Southern Africa and the Lieut. General Commanding H.M. Forces, clandestinely conspired to invade the Zulu Kingd...

Shaping Modern Shanghai provides a new understanding of colonialism in China through a fresh examination of Shanghai's International Settlement. Th...

Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, ...

There is still a great fascination with the British Empire. Opinions vary widely about Great Britains imperial past, and about the extraordinary ch...

The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain''''s bestselling transport historian.''''Christian Wolmar i...