Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial presen…
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Based on five years of archival research, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of Britain and Spains relationship during the growth, apogee and decline of the British Empire. It shows that from the early nineteenth century Britain turned Spain into an informal colony, usi…
"Paradise Overseas" presents a tour around the main themes of Dutch Caribbean history and its contemporary legacies. Drawing on wide expertise in Caribbean and Latin American studies, Gert Oostindie strongly posits a refreshing analysis of the Dutch Caribbean in a comparative fr…
This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the author demonstrates the racial ineq…
This book contributes to the growing literature on the role of the British non-settler empire in the Great War by exploring the service of the Cypriot Mule Corps on the Salonica Front, and after the war in Constantinople.
Ornamentalism is a vividly evocative account of a vanished era, a major reassessment of Britain and its imperial past, and a trenchant and disturbing analysis of what it means to be a post-imperial nation today.
Ornamentalism is a vividly evocative account of a vanished era, a major reassessment of Britain and its imperial past, and a trenchant and disturbing analysis of what it means to be a post-imperial nation today.
Weaving together the varied and complex strands of anti-colonial nationalism into one compact narrative, Christhu Doss takes an incisive look at the deeper and wider historical process of decolonization in India.In India after the 1857 Revolt, Doss brings together some of the mo…
1) This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Santal rebellion in British India (1855-1856). 2) The book proposes an independent theoretical argument against the founder of the Subaltern School, Ranajit Guha's Gramscian interpretation of the rebellion. 3) This book will …
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How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in …
How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in …
<I>Creating the Opium War</i> examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War - a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next centu…
"This open access book asks how have auditory environments in different contexts contributed to understanding imperial occupation, and how has it given rise to historical music cultures? How are sound and music implicated in the state control and discipline of people? Exploring …
Medicine, ' declared a French imperialist, is the 'sole excuse for colonialism.' If colonial rule had its harsh and negative side, the work of the doctor ennobled and justified it. Historians, even nationalist writers, have echoed this view. The white man's medicine at least was…
This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual …
Explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510-1961). This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnogr…
Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors including royals, politicians and indigenous people in order to demonstrate how a multi-valent British culture was createdthroughout the empire.
Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors - including royals, politicians and indigenous people - in order to demonstrate how a multi-valent British culture was created throughout the empire. Royal tourists, colonial subjects …