An Historical Introduction
Author: Robert Young
This innovative book by one of the leading exponents in the field introduces 'postcolonialism' in both theoretical and historical terms. Robert Young provides a wide-ranging analysis of postcolonial theory's emergence fr ... |
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Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town
Author: Heather McDonald
In this fascinating and beautifully written book, Heather McDonald examines Aboriginal people's experiences of colonialism and post-colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Blood, Bones and Spirit analyses ... |
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Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier
Author: Brigid Hains
The Ice and the Inland is a fascinating study of how the frontier became etched in the Australian imagination in the early twentieth century in the image of folk heroes such as Douglas Mawson, legendary Antarctic explore ... |
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The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833
Author: H.V. Bowen
Study of the impact in Britain when the East India Company acquired a South Asian 'empire' . |
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The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834
Author: Cambridge Studies in Economic History
From the mid-seventeenth century to the 1830s, successful gentry capitalists created an extensive business empire centered on slavery in the West Indies, but inter-linked with North America, Africa, and Europe. S. D. Smi ... |
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The Indian Problem in British Politics 1757-1773
Author: H.V. Bowen
Revenue and Reform offers a reappraisal of British imperial politics in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. It is traditional to regard the 1760s as a time when British politicians were preoccupied with the cris ... |
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Markets, Society and the Colonial State in Bihar
Author: Anand A. Yang
The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast I ... |
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Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840
Author: Kathleen Wilson
This pioneering collection of essays charts an exciting new field in British studies, 'the new imperial history'. Leading scholars from history, literature and cultural studies tackle problems of identity, modernity and ... |
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Colonialism in Bone, 1870-1920
Author: David Prochaska
Making Algeria French relates the history of the pieds noirs and Algerians in colonial Bone, renamed Annaba in 1962. Located in eastern Algeria, this Mediterranean port city staked an early claim to world historical fame ... |
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Imperialism, National Identity and Political Values
Author: John Gillingham
Six of the greatest twelfth-century historians - William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Geoffrey Gaimar, Roger of Howden, and Gerald of Wales - are analysed in this collection of essays, focusi ... |
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Author: John Taylor & Martin Bell
For population analysts, two of the most difficult issues to grapple with are Indigenous populations and mobility. Indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States comprise those descendents of ... |
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Author: NEWITT M
Over a period of 250 years Portuguese became the global language of maritime trade, and Iberian silver circulated as a world trading currency. A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 provides an accessible s ... |
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Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914-1923
Author: Aviel Roshwald
Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empire examines the critical dilemmas of nationalist politics in the first world war. The book focuses on a selection of case-studies drawn from events in the Habsburg, Romanov and Otto ... |
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Author: Ania Loomba
Recommended on courses across academic disciplines and around the world, Ania Loomba's Colonialism/Postcolonialism has for some years been accepted as the essential introduction to this vibrant and politically charged ar ... |
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Author: J.H. Parry
The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 149 ... |
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Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America
Author: Claudio Veliz
Claudio Veliz adopts the provocative metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers. Applying this metaphor to modern culture, economic systems, and the history of the New ... |
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Author: William R. Pinch
In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yi ... |
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Science, British Imperialism and the Improvement of the World
Author: Richard Drayton
'Nature's Government' is a daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism. It shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the twentieth century, led to com ... |
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Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, 1492-1830
Author: A.R. Pagden
This book, the first to compare theories of empire as they emerged in, and helped to define, the great colonial powers-Spain, Britain, and France-describes the different ways and arguments these countries used to legitim ... |
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The Story of the Anglo Indian Community
Author: Frank Anthony
Frank Anthony's 'The Story of the Anglo Indian community', is the first book in the Anglo Indian Heritage series. This famous book is often cited by researchers and writers on the community, it consists of 512 pages of ... |
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