In the summer of 1629, John Winthrop described a series of epidemics that devastated Native American populations along the eastern seaboard of New England as a "miraculous plague." Winthrop was struck by the providential nature of these epidemics, which fit neatly within the set…
This book brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story, in the second volume of a unique history of Australia.
This book explores the extraordinary surviving archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive account of Jamaican society during Queen Victoria's reign over the British Empire, from 1837 to 1901. In their analyses of material ranging from photog…
This book explores the extraordinary surviving archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive account of Jamaican society during Queen Victoria's reign over the British Empire, from 1837 to 1901. In their analyses of material ranging from photog…
La 4ème de couv. indique :"Plus de 100 cartes, plans et schémas pour comprendre les origines et les implications de l'impérialisme romain. Par quels moyens politiques, économiques et culturels les Romains sont-ils parvenus à étendre leur territoire sur les pourtours de la Médite…
"The essays in this volume confront the assimilationist agendas in settler-colonial states around the world that seek to erase the distinct histories and current status of Indigenous peoples as sovereign peoples. In the introduction, editor Patrick Wolfe provocatively asks wheth…
Compares and contrasts aspects of Aboriginal economy and society across seven different regions. It reconstructs and explores the relationships between land and technologies.
Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya's 'white insane' to focus not on the 'great white hunters' and heroic pioneer farmers, but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important ne…
"In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions, identities, and values upon the New World societies being created during the colonization process. He shows how transplanted Old World components -- political, legal, and social -- were adapted to mee…