Colonialism & Imperialism

The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast. Yet Spanis...

In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his ret...

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in Colonial M...

At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of th...

Just as America was observed in French literary and political commentary, we find representations of America in French music, dance, and theatre wh...

In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon a...

The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British imperialism - its information system and the close links ...

Since the second half of the twentieth century, there has been a commitment on the part of women writers and scholars to revise and rewrite the his...

This book situates its contemplation of the nineteenth-century Trinidadian landscape in the context of an emerging sub-field of Caribbean postcolon...