In a wide-ranging account of the development of ideas about human difference, Nicholas Thomas challenges reigning theories that portray colonialism as monolithic in character, purpose, and efficacy throughout the world. Taking issue with such writers as Edward Said, Homi Bhabha,…
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This text traces the historically changing image of non-white people in British advertising during the colonial period. It reveals the historical and production context of many advertising icons and also develops a detailed textual analysis of the images.
"Guardians of empire explores the ways in which armies and armed forces were involved in the making, the maintenance and the loss of overseas empire." "The volume ranges widely in time and space. Besides chapters on the British Empire in Africa, Asia and Oceania, there are also …
"This book is an ethnographic account of colonialism in the Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal, India. It examines the links between colonialism and development under British and Indian administrations, and analyses how the different indigenous groups (the Andamanese, the Onge, the …
Paper by Bruce Kercher traces the legal origins of the doctrine of terra nullius in early court cases in New South Wales.
Paper by Bruce Kercher traces the legal origins of the doctrine of terra nullius in early court cases in New South Wales.
The first English translation of Professor Locher-Scholten's 1994 Dutch text, a study of the reaction to Dutch colonial expansion by the Sumatran sultanate of Jambi. The Dutch text has been called "an excellent teaching tool for work on the Netherlands imperial project " [Locher…
Portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations