Abigail L. Swingen's insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England's original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on t…
This title explores the connections between the origins of the English empire and unfree labour by exploring how England's imperial designs influenced contemporary politics and debates about labour, population, political economy, and overseas trade. It pays particular attention …
Based on personal letters and diaries and collective records, explores how two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire grounded themselves within the landscapes of Victoria and New South Wales, and how spatially-constructed colonial identi…
Based on personal letters and diaries and collective records, explores how two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire grounded themselves within the landscapes of Victoria and New South Wales, and how spatially-constructed colonial identi…
Based on personal letters and diaries and collective records, explores how two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire grounded themselves within the landscapes of Victoria and New South Wales, and how spatially-constructed colonial identi…
The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorist…
This work looks at the problematic relationship between the Philippines and the US. It argues that when faced with a national crisis or a compelling need to reestablish its autonomy, each nation paradoxically turns to its history with the other to define its place in the world.
"This is a study of the intense, complex, and escalating debate over sexuality and sexual morality that roiled politics in Germany between 1880 and 1914. That debate was grounded in the rapid evolution and growing complexity of German society - the multiplication of cultural gro…
"For one hundred years, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European imperialism in Africa upon its publication in 1899, more recently it has been repeatedly denounced as racist and …
Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, approached not theoretically but …
