This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain's overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw our picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the lineages of the novel, and…
The East India Company at Home 1757-1857
The East India Company at Home, 1757?1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organi…
Walter Pohl and Rutger Kramer, Introduction: Empires and communities in the post-Roman and Islamic world -- Hugh Kennedy, The emergence of new polities in the break-up of the Abbasid Caliphate -- Walter Pohl, The emergence of new polities in the break-up of the Western Roman Emp…
Histoire de la colonisation du monde et son exploitation par les Européens, du XVe au début du XIXe siècle, à travers des cartes et des graphiques. (Renaud-Bray).
Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiou…
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of 'late colonial shift' after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors toge…
