Publisher's summary: A Search for Sovereignty maps a new approach to world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and tha…
This work examines the relation of law and geography in European empires. It explores spatial patterns of treason, piracy, convict transportation, and martial law in European empires between 1400 and 1900.
From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the way in which scientific research has been implicated in the worst excesses of imperialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized pe…
Women's social status, womens rights, international division of labour, capitalist country, socialist country, developing country - womens organization, trends, historical, USA and Western Europe, cultural factors, political aspects, woman workers, capitalism, feudalism, sexual …
by Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice
fromStudies in social discontinuity
Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the six…
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading…
From postcolonial, interdisciplinary, and transnational perspectives, this collection of original essays looks at the experience of Spain's empire in the Atlantic and the Pacific and its cultural production --
"This book merges bioarchaeology and historical archaeology to examine changes to diet, mortuary practices, and diseases in post-fifteenth century colonialism from a global perspective"--Provided by publisher.
An examination of the role of the French Army in French West Africa and its relations with its African soldiers from the end of World War II to the final demobilization of African troops from the French Army in 1964."--Provided by publisher
A collection of papers on new dimensions in the study of the social history of the Middle East delivered at Cairo Papers Eighth Annual Symposium by Horst Unbehaun, Joseph Massad, Martina Rieker, Khaled Fahmy, Judith Tucker, and Peter Gran.
This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and dev…
Monograph on forced labour, expropriation of indigenous landowners and the evolution of the African worker in colonial French-speaking Africa. Covers historical and sociological aspects of colonialism and capitalism in Central Africa, economic and social implications of the Cong…
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? This title explores how the British organized the process of "islanding," aiming to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethno…
Examines treaties between European colonists and Native people often negotiated on Indian terms but scrutinized by foreign powers against a background of English, Spanish, French, and Dutch imperial rivalries.
The fragmentation of the former Somali Democratic Republic into three distinctive entities, together with the events that have ensued since then, make for a complex Political puzzle that raises a plethora of questions. M.J. Fox explores some of the most fundamental of those ques…
Postcolonial theory has enjoyed wide influence in the humanities but for social science, and in particular sociology, its implications remain elusive. This special volume brings together leading sociologists to explore the concept of "postcolonial sociology," with brand new post…
