Part one: The right of conquest in traditional international law and 1. The theoretical background to the right of conquest 2. The right of conquest in relations between European states and 3. The right of conquest in relations between states comprising 4. Conditions for the…
With Calcutta as the hub, eastern India was the gateway of technology transmission to India. This book explores the social history of this transmission, from the colonial metropolis to the interior, and analyses the context and results of technology induction to the villages. Ba…
A portrait of the Iroquois nation during America's colonial period offers insight into their influence over regional politics, their active participation in period trade, and their neutral stance throughout the Anglo-French imperial wars. "More than perhaps any other Native Ame…
The Cambridge survey of world migration
Oversigtsværk/ håndbog, der dækker ind- og udvandringen over hele Verden begyndende med den europæiske etablering af kolonier i 16. århundrede. Værket omfatter indvandring, udvandring, flygtninge, legale og illegale m.v. samt en analyse af de politiske, regionale og etniske kons…
The Cambrigde Survey or World Migration begins in the sixteenth century with the establishment of European colonies overseas and covers the history of migration to the late twenthieth century, when political conflict, global communications and transport systems stimulated immens…
"What is the just measure of Western obligations to Africa? As Africans and their supporters mark the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the United States and Great Britain, the question becomes increasingly salient. Calls for reparations for the ev…
Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. He shows tha…