This book is a critical biography of Baba Padmanji (1831-1906), a firebrand native Christian missionary, ideologue, and litterateur from 19th-century Bombay Presidency. Though Padmanji was well-known, and a very influential figure among Christian converts, his contributions have…
Introduction: Imagining America's imperial-revolutionary moment -- Empire and provincials -- The baubles of America: object lessons from the eclectic empire of Peter Williamson / Timothy J. Shannon -- Imperial vineyards: wine and politics in the early American South / Owen Stanw…
Born of clashing visions of empire in England and the colonies, the American Revolution saw men and women grappling with power-- and its absence--in dynamic ways. On both sides of the revolutionary divide, Americans viewed themselves as an imperial people. This perspective condi…
Introduction: Between colonialism and coloniality : colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies today / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias -- Race and domination in colonial Latin American studies / Daniel Nemser -- Self-representation and self-governance in early Lat…
The colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian J. Peterson considers for the first time how and why rural peoples in …
Moving the debate beyond the place of tactical intelligence in counterinsurgency warfare, this book considers the view from Whitehall, where the biggest decisions were made. It reveals the evolving impact of strategic intelligence upon government understandings of, and policy re…
The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of 18th-century British liberalism. This title expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived.
The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of aboli…
'Envisioning an English Empire' brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it.
Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated d…
Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated d…
