Colonialism and imperialism Books

Book SynopsisSpencer Mawby is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Nottingham, UK.Trade Review'Methodologically sophisticated but accessibly written, Mawby's account brims with insights about the processes that drove British imperial decline. The thematic focus and impressive command of the specialist literature make this an obvious first choice for students new to British imperial history.' - Martin Thomas, University of Exeter, UK 'Were this simply a thoughtful and lucid guide through a dynamic and complex area of history, the reader would have much for which to be thankful. But Dr Mawby's work is more than that. In its critical engagement with the literature, it also invites the reader into a direct conversation with these texts. It simultaneously equips and provokes us to think with care about how we write about some of the most important events of the recent past.' - Christopher Prior, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface 1. Introduction 2. Anti-Colonialism in the British Empire 3. Britain and Britishness 4. Migration 5. Counterinsurgency, Intelligence and Propaganda 6. Capital and Labour 7. Conclusion Chronology Notes Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries.Table of ContentsTable Of Contents 1. Experiments In Modernity: The Making Of The Atlantic World Economy; A.B. Leonard And David Pretel 2. From Seas To Ocean: Interpreting The Shift From The North Sea-Baltic World To The Atlantic, 1650-1800; David Ormrod 3. On The Rocks: A New Approach To Atlantic World Trade, 1520-1890; Chuck Meide 4. Commerce And Conflict: Jamaica And The War Of The Spanish Succession; Nula Zahedieh 5. Baltimore And The French Atlantic: Empires, Commerce, And Identity In A Revolutionary Age, 1783-1798; Manuel Covo 6. Modernity And The Demise Of The Dutch Atlantic, 1650-1914; Gert Oostindie 7. From Local To Transatlantic: Insuring Trade In The Caribbean; A.B. Leonard 8. Slavery, The British Atlantic Economy, And The Industrial Revolution; Knick Harley 9. Commodity Frontiers, Spatial Economy, And Technological Innovation In The Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1783-1878; Dale W. Tomich 10. From Periphery To Centre: Transatlantic Capital Flows, 1830-1890; Martín Rodrigo Y Alharilla 11. Baring Brothers And The Cuban Plantation Economy, 1814-1870; Inés Roldán De Montaud 12. Circuits Of Knowledge: Foreign Technology And Transnational Expertise In Nineteenth-Century Cuba; David Pretel And Nadia Fernández-De-Pinedo 13. Afterword: Mercantilism And The Caribbean Atlantic World Economy; Martin Daunton

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt.Trade Review“This work situates children’s lives and agency within the local frame of Egypt and in so doing contributes to a growing body of work on ‘non-western childhoods.’ … this is a pioneering work on a highly important and much-neglected topic. No doubt Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt will pave the way for what may very well blossom into a new school for childhood studies in Egypt and the wider region of the Middle East and North Africa.” (Linda Herrera, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol.10 (1), 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Reforming Childhood in the Context of Colonialism 2. Nation-Building and the Redefinition of the Child 3. Child-Rearing and Class 4. Girls and the Building of Modern Egypt 5. Constructing National Identity through Autobiographical Memory Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisUnder Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous national identity. This book examines novels and films of the period, showing that their attempts at stigmatization were self-undermining, forcing audiences to reassess their collective identity.Trade Review“This study contributes substantially to critical texts on Italian colonialism, Fascism, and postcolonial Italy, and to studies of racial identity in Italy by considering the role of hybrid individuals and the way in which they directly challenged … . The valuable, and timely, historical lesson contained in this book—particularly in light of the current migration crisis in the Mediterranean—is twofold: Italian national and racial identities are contested and fluid, and borders and boundaries are not fixed.” (Meriel Tulante, gender/sexuality/italy, gendersexualityitaly.com, Issue 05, 2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Meticci and Levantines in Literary and Cinematic Representations of Colonial Experience in Africa 1. Art of Darkness: The Aestheticization of Black People in Fascist Colonial Novels 2. The Dissident Literature of Enrico Pea and Fausta Cialente 3. Fade to White: Cinematic Representations of Italian Whiteness 4. Levantines and Biracial Offspring in Postwar Italy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.Trade Review“Hunting Africa is a valuable tool for scholars who study late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. … Hunting Africa adds to the field of scholarship on imperial masculinity and femininity. Moreover, Thompsell’s thorough investigation of personal accounts, social contracts, and violence deepens our understanding of the fraught and complex relationship between colonizers and colonized.” (Precious Mckenzie, American Historical Review, February, 2017)“Angela Thompsell’s Hunting Africa is relatively short at just over 150 pages of text … . The book touches on themes of gender, the social history of both African and colonial communities, the economics of hunting, and the image of Africa in British culture. … Hunting Africa was published by Palgrave Macmillan in conjunction with the British Scholar Society, which indicates that the audience is specialist historians of empire and gender … .” (Toby Harper, H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, May, 2016)Table of Contents1. Real Men / Savage Nature: The Rise of African Big Game Hunting 2. 'The Bitter Thraldom of Dependence': Negotiating the Hunt 3. Guns and Reeds: Africanizing British Big Game Hunting 4. Lady Lion Hunters: An Imperial Femininity 5. 'To Make a Fetish of Roughing It': Reimagining Hunting in the Age of Safaris, 1900-1914

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing factors.Trade Review“The well-written introduction by Rebekah Higgitt and Richard Dunn provides a good overview, and even readers who are not specialists will profit from studying the contents of this important contribution. It opens up many highly interesting research perspectives and can be recommended wholeheartedly.” (Günther Oestmann, ISIS, Vol. 108 (4), December, 2017)“The editors declare an aim of giving depth to the British story by describing analogous activity in other European countries and the transnational linkages that facilitated progress in the theory and practice of navigation. … This volume must find a place in university libraries. It is essential reading for any serious student of the development of marine navigation.” (M. K. Barritt, The Mariner’s Mirror, Vol. 102 (2), April, 2016)“This collection of essays deals with the development and introduction of methods for finding longitude at sea between 1730 and 1850, mainly by non-British nations. … Approaching the issue from a non-British perspective considerably broad-ensour understanding and is no doubt the book’s strongest point. … this volume deserves a place in the bookcase of everyone interested in or studying the history of navigation and astronomy.” (W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns, The Northern Mariner, Vol. 26 (1), March, 2016)“It has achieved a set of original perspectives on the Board and its work, that were not accessible from the internal study, as well as a rich series of accounts that are valuable in their own right. … Taken together, these papers form an excellent book, which demonstrates that the study of navigation in the period, and perhaps particularly of the longitude problem, has resumed its serious engagement with historical work.” (Jim Bennett, The International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 28 (4), 2016)Table of Contents1. Introduction; Rebekah Higgitt and Richard Dunn 2. A Southern Meridian: Astronomical Undertakings in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire; Juan Pimentel 3. The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, c.1750-1850; Karel Davids 4. From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 1742-85; Guy Boistel 5. The Bureau des Longitudes: An Institutional Study; Martina Schiavon 6. Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London's Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759-60; Jacob Orrje 7. 'Perfectly Correct': Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy; Simon Werrett 8. A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology and Conventions of Location by Geodesy; Michael Kershaw 9. Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France; Danielle M. E. Fauque 10. Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d'Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766-1840; John Gascoigne 11. Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens?; Jane Wess 12 . Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement 'in the Wild', 1770-1840; David Philip Miller

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which emotions were conceptualised and practised in Christian mission contexts from the 17th-20th centuries. The authors show how emotional practices such as prayer, tears, and Methodist 'shouting', and feelings such as pity, joy and frustration, shaped relationships between missionaries and prospective converts.Table of ContentsContents Faith through Feeling: An Introduction; Claire McLisky and Karen Vallgarda 1. 'What Do You Mean by Prayer?': Emotion and Devotion in Thomas Wilson's Essay Towards an Instruction of the Indians (1740); Laura M. Stevens 2. German 'Shouting Methodists': Religious Emotion as a Transatlantic Cultural Practice; Monique Scheer 3. Neuendettelsau Missionaries, Objectivity and the Ethno-musicological Study of Papuan Emotions; Daniel Midena 4. Errant Hearts: Missionary Melancholy and Consolation in the Spanish Philippines; Maria Cecilia Holt 5. A Complicated Pity: Emotion, Missions and the Conversion Narrative; Elizabeth Elbourne 6. Affective Circuits: Emotional transfer and Christian mission in Early Colonial Greenland and Australia; Claire McLisky 7. Converting Emotions: Domesticity and Self-Sacrifice in Female Missionary Writing; Angharad Eyre 8. The Evocation of Emotions in a Swedish Missionary Periodical; Hanna Acke 9. 'I feel that we belong to the one big family': Protestant Childhoods, Missions and Emotions in British World Settings, 1870s-1930s; Hugh Morrison Emotions, Missions and Colonial Histories: An Epilogue; Jacqueline Van Gent

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Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1967. Using a number of original sources of newspapers, rare documents, magazines and records this book offers the history of Liverpool privateering and the delicate subject of the Liverpool slave trading.Table of ContentsPart I History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque; Chapter I A Peep Behind the Scenes—the Ancient Mariner and the Ancient Merchant; Chapter II The Story of Captain Fortunatus Wright and Selim the Armenian Captive; Chapter III Privateers of the Seven Years’ War; Chapter IV Privateers of the American War of Independence; Chapter V Liverpool Privateers and Letter of Marque Ships during the Wars of the French Revolution; Chapter VI Liverpool Privateers During the Second War with America; Part II The Liverpool Slave Trade; Chapter VII How It Originated and Thrived; Chapter VIII Captain John Newton; Chapter IX The Massacre at Old Calabar; Chapter X The Abolition Movement; Chapter XI Horrors of the Middle Passage; Chapter XII Emoluments of the Traffic—A Millionaire’s Ventures; Chapter XIII The Corporation and the Slave Trade; Chapter XIV Captain Hugh Crow;

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Book SynopsisPostcolonialism, Decoloniality and Development is a comprehensive revision of Postcolonialism and Development (2009) that explains, reviews and critically evaluates recent debates about postcolonial and decolonial approaches and their implications for development studies. By outlining contemporary theoretical debates and examining their implications for how the developing world is thought about, written about and engaged with in policy terms, this book unpacks the difficult, complex and important aspects of the relationships between postcolonial theory, decoloniality and development studies.The book focuses on the importance of development discourses, the relationship between development knowledge and power, and agency within development. It includes significant new material exploring the significance of postcolonial approaches to understanding development in the context of rapid global change and the dissonances and interconnections between postcolonial theory Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Histories and geographies of postcolonialism 3 A postcolonial history development 4 Discourses of development and the power of representation 5 Critiquing development knowledge and power 6 Agency in development 7 Towards a postcolonial development agenda 8 Beyond Development and decolonizing life in the ‘Anthropocene’? 9 Conclusions

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Book SynopsisWhile scholarship on migration has been thriving for decades, little attention has been paid to professionals from Europe and America who move temporarily to destinations beyond âthe Westâ. Such migrants are marginalised and depoliticised by debates on immigration policy, and thus there is an urgent need to develop nuanced understanding of these more privileged movements. In many ways, these are the modern-day equivalents of colonial settlers and expatriates, yet the continuities in their migration practices have rarely been considered.The New Expatriates advances our understanding of contemporary mobile professionals by engaging with postcolonial theories of race, culture and identity. The volume brings together authors and research from across a wide range of disciplines, seeking to evaluate the significance of the past in shaping contemporary expatriate mobilities and highlighting postcolonial continuities in relation to people, practices and imaginations. AcknowlTable of ContentsForeword Alan Lester 1. Examining ‘Expatriate’ Continuities: Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals Anne-Meike Fechter and Katie Walsh 2. ‘New Shanghailanders’ or ‘New Shanghainese’: Western Expatriates’ Narratives of Emplacement in Shanghai James Farrer 3. ‘Realising the Self and Developing the African’: German Immigrants in Namibia Heidi Armbruster 4. Work, Identity and Change? Post/Colonial Encounters in Hong Kong Pauline Leonard 5. Institutionalising the Colonial Imagination: Chinese Middlemen and the Transnational Corporate Office in Jakarta, Indonesia William H. Leggett 6. Gender, Empire, Global Capitalism: Colonial and Corporate Expatriate Wives Anne-Meike Fechter 7. A Postcolonial Imagination? Westerners Searching for Authenticity in India Mari Korpela 8. From ‘Trucial State’ to ‘Postcolonial’ City? The Imaginative Geographies of British Expatriates in Dubai Anne Coles and Katie Walsh 9. ‘They Called Them Communists Then. . ./ What D’You Call ’Em Now?. . ./ Insurgents?’ Narratives of British Military Expatriates in the Context of the New Imperialism Ben Rogaly and Becky Taylor

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Book SynopsisThe memsahibs' of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also visited and resided in India in this earlier period, witnessing first-hand the tumultuous, expansionist decades in which the East India Company established British control over the subcontinent. Some of these travellers produced highly regarded accounts of their experiences, thereby inaugurating a rich tradition of women's travel writing about India. In the process, they not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent, they also contributed to them, helping to shape opinion and policy on issues such as colonial rule, religion, and social reform.This new set in the Chawton HouTable of ContentsIntroductionAnn Deane, A Tour Through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan (1823)Julia Maitland, Letters from Madras (1846)Editorial Notes

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Book SynopsisIn this new edition of The Global Seven Years War, Daniel Baugh emphasizes the ways that sea power hindered French military preparations while also furnishing strategic opportunities. Special attention is paid to undertakings always French that failed to receive needed financial support.From analysis of original sources, the volume provides stronger evidence for the role and wishes of Louis XV in determining the main outline of strategy. By 1758, the French government experienced significant money shortage, and emphasis has been placed on the most important consequences: how this impacted war-making and why it was so worrying, debilitating and difficult to solve. This edition explains why the Battle of Rossbach in 1757 was a turning point in the Anglo-French War, suggesting that Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick's winter campaign revitalized the British war effort which was, before that time, a record of failures. With comprehensive discussion of events outside ofTrade Review‘Daniel Baugh’s book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the global dimensions of this pivotal conflict between Britain and France. Meticulously researched and based on an impressively wide range of evidence, Baugh’s engaging and accessible account charts the war across continents and oceans, offering penetrating insight and acute analysis of this global contest and its long-lasting ramifications.’ John Mcaleer, University of Southampton, UK‘Especially strong on the global dimensions of the conflict, with in-depth attention to North America, the Caribbean, the high seas, and India, Baugh narrates the campaigns lucidly and examines the strategic, diplomatic, logistical, and financial contexts that shaped the war’s course. An accessible and lively introduction to the Seven Years’ War for students, the book engages experts with arguments on key points of interpretation. This new edition provides fuller attention to the role of Louis XV and to the crucial financial dimensions of the war. The best, one-volume account of the Seven Years’ War available today.’ John Shovlin, New York University, USATable of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Statesmen and regimes 3. Origins: the contested regions, 1748-54 4. Risking war, 1754–55 5. War without declaration: North America, 1755 6. Indecision in Europe: May to December 1755 7. French triumphs, British blunders, 1756 8. France’s European war plan, 1756–57 9. The tide turns, 1758 10. The Atlantic and North America, 1758 11. The West Indies and North America, 1759 12. The British victory at sea, 1759 13. Britain conquers afar, disunity looms at home 14. The chance of peace, 1761 15. Peacemaking 1762: concessions before conquests 16. Conclusion and aftermath

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the causes, course and consequences of warfare in twentieth century Africa, a period which spanned colonial rebellions, both World Wars, and the decolonization process. Timothy Stapleton contextualizes the essential debates and controversies surrounding African conflict in the twentieth century while providing insightful introductions to such conflicts as: African rebellions against colonial regimes in the early twentieth century, including the rebellion and infamous genocide of the Herero and Nama people in present-day Namibia; The African fronts of World War I and World War II, and the involvement of colonized African peoples in these global conflicts; Conflict surrounding the widespread decolonization of Africa in the 1950s and 1960s; Rebellion and civil war in Africa during the Cold War, when American and Soviet elements often intervened in efforts to turn African battlegrounds into Cold War Table of ContentsPart One: Introduction Part Two: War and Conflict in Africa (1900-1945) Chapter 1: Wars of Colonial Conquest (1900-36) Chapter 2: Africa and the World Wars (1914-18 and 1939-45) Part Three: War and Conflict in Africa (1945-2000) Chapter 3: Decolonization Wars (1947-90) Chapter 4: Civil Wars (1955-2000) Chapter 5: Inter-state Wars (1960-2000) Part Four: Documents Timeline Glossary Who’s who? Select Documents Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this era of intense migration, the topic of the foreigner is of paramount importance. Joanne Wieland-Burston examines the question of the foreign and foreigner from multiple perspectives and explores how Jung and Freud were more interested in the wide phenomenon of the foreign in the unconscious rather than in their own personal lives. She analyses cultural approaches to the archetype of the foreigner throughout history using literary, cultural (as seen in mythological texts and fairy tales) and psychological references, and interprets the scapegoating of foreign minorities as a projection of the monster onto the foreigner. The book includes contemporary perspectives on immigration and displacement throughout, from analysing patient case material, the archetypal needs of people who join terrorist groups, feelings of alienation, and the work of Palestinian-German psychologist Ahmad Mansour. Throughout this personal and highly topical study, Wieland-Burston questions and Trade Review"Joanne Wieland-Burston offers us a book that is quite clear, profound, and excellently documented, on our relationship with the foreigner within us, around us, and afar. It provides observation, investigation, analysis, and personal experience that are of practical use to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, researchers in the social sciences, and each one of us." - Christian Gaillard, Dr. Psy., training psychoanalyst and supervisor; former President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, former Professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Paris, and author of The Soul of Art: Analysis and Creation, Texas AM University Press"In this impressive and thoughtful book, Joanne Wieland-Burston helps us come to terms with the "other" in ourselves and in the world around us. This is a most timely and useful book, full of essential insights into the times we live in." - Murray Stein, PhD, author of Jung’s Map of the Soul"Joanne Wieland-Burston having been herself involved with migration and alienation explores the theme of the foreigner from manifold angles based on her background as a Jungian analyst and her studies in literature and art history. Her fascinating and differentiated work centers mainly on the modern faces of the foreigner. Giving deep insight in the dominant topic of our culture she deals with the archetypal roots, cultural complexes, scapegoating, alienation of the self and brings all the aspects down to the practical work in psychotherapy. A truly wonderful and inspiring book!" -Kathrin Asper, PhD, supervisor, training analyst and lecturer at ISAPZURICH"Joanne Wieland-Burston offers us a book that is quite clear, profound, and excellently documented, on our relationship with the foreigner within us, around us, and afar. It provides observation, investigation, analysis, and personal experience that are of practical use to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, researchers in the social sciences, and each one of us." - Christian Gaillard, Dr. Psy., training psychoanalyst and supervisor; former President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, former Professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Paris, and author of The Soul of Art: Analysis and Creation"In this impressive and thoughtful book, Joanne Wieland-Burston helps us come to terms with the 'other' in ourselves and in the world around us. This is a most timely and useful book, full of essential insights into the times we live in." - Murray Stein, PhD, author of Jung’s Map of the Soul"Joanne Wieland-Burston having been herself involved with migration and alienation explores the theme of the foreigner from manifold angles based on her background as a Jungian analyst and her studies in literature and art history. Her fascinating and differentiated work centers mainly on the modern faces of the foreigner. Giving deep insight in the dominant topic of our culture she deals with the archetypal roots, cultural complexes, scapegoating, alienation of the self and brings all the aspects down to the practical work in psychotherapy. A truly wonderful and inspiring book!" -Kathrin Asper, PhD, supervisor, training analyst and lecturer at ISAPZURICHTable of ContentsList of figuresPreface Introduction 1. Deconstructing the archetype of the foreigner 2. The archetypal experience of meeting the foreigner and being one in early cultures, mythologies and literary texts 3. Monster making/scapegoating: one way of dealing with the foreigner 4. Alienation in the modern world: feeling foreign 5. The encounter with the foreigner in the psychotherapeutic context PostscriptIndex

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Book SynopsisPostcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to films of that period. Towards the century's end and at the dawn of the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges from and reflects that nation's unique postcolonial situation. This analysis of one nation's struggle with its coloniality allows each essay tTrade Review"This volume of essays brilliantly creates the groundwork for a truly international discussion. Film and its centrality to the ongoing colonial and postcolonial debates in and between countries across the globe is its focus. The many scholarly and accessible essays here will open readers’ eyes to the truly global reach of film, and to the urgency of creating equitable postcolonial cultures." – Lyn McCredden, Deakin University, Australia"This collection of essays engages with traditional discourses in postcolonial studies in the light of recent developments pertaining to globalization, a post-9/11 security planet, Islamic terrorism, infra-nationalisms, and intense nomadism of populations. It is long awaited." – Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: New Perspectives on Postcolonial Film Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Part I: New Readings of Twentieth Century Anti-Colonial Resistance Narratives 1. Yesterday’s Mujahiddin: Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966) Nicholas Harrison 2. The Sound of Broken Memory: Assia Djebar’s The Nuba of the Women of Mount Chenoua (1977) Sarah E. Mosher 3. Approximate Others: Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (1977) Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield 4. Life as an Ocean: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Puppetmaster (1993) Stephen Spence Part II: Millennial Tropes of NeoEmpire 5. Shifting Sands, Imaginary Space, and National Identity: Cédric Klapisch’s Peut-être (1999) Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 6. No Chains on Feet or Mind: Jean-Claude Flamand Barny’s Nèg Maron (2005) Meredith Robinson 7. A Cinema of Conviviality: Ray Lawrence’s Jindabyne (2006) Corinn Columpar 8. Déjà vu All Over Again: Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007) Cynthia Sugars Part III: New Imaginations of Neo-Postcolonialism 9. Identity and The Politics of Space: Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven (2007) Vuslat Demirkoparan 10. Space and Cultural Memory: Te-Shen Wei’s Cape No.7 (2008) Yu-wen Fu 11. The Postcolonial Hybrid: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 (2009) Rebecca Weaver-Hightower 12. The Marginal Interventionist Cinema of Budhan Theatre: Dakxin Bajrange Chhara’s The Lost Water (2008/2010) Henry Schwarz 13. Afterword: History, Empire, Resistance Ella Shohat and Robert Stam

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Book SynopsisChallenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our towns and cities have shaped and been shaped by cultural, spatial and gendered influences. This volume discusses gender in an urban context in European, North American and colonial towns from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, casting new light on the development of medieval and modern settlements across the globe.Organised into six thematic parts covering economy, space, civic identity, material culture, emotions and the colonial world, this book comprises 36 chapters by key scholars in the field. It covers a wide range of topics, from women and citizenship in medieval York to gender and tradition in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South African cities, reframing our understanding of the role of gender in constructing the spaces and places that form our urban environment.Interdisciplinary and transnational in scope, thisTrade Review'In a rich super-collection of 36 essays plus introductions, this Routledge History Handbook offers exciting fare for readers of diverse geographical and temporal interests. Sweeping across Europe, including several of its less familiar northern domains, and reaching out to some of its distant colonies, the anthology spans six centuries. Fruitful coherence and lots of striking fresh insights emerge from the sustained focus on a novel intersection of two themes: gender, both as ideas and in persons, and urban experiences and spaces.'Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University, Canada 'In a rich super-collection of 36 essays plus introductions, this Routledge History Handbook offers exciting fare for readers of diverse geographical and temporal interests. Sweeping across Europe, including several of its less familiar northern domains, and reaching out to some of its distant colonies, the anthology spans six centuries. Fruitful coherence and lots of striking fresh insights emerge from the sustained focus on a novel intersection of two themes: gender, both as ideas and in persons, and urban experiences and spaces.'Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University, Canada 'Simonton ... presents an exciting body of work that simultaneously offers broad overviews and detailed microâ-studies.'Jennifer Aston, The Economic History Review'Overall, the Handbook is a vast and empirically rich collection of essays, which is a valuable resource for researchers, and will undoubtedly be informative for both scholarship and teaching. Students interested in gender, urban history and their relationship will also find much here, and will particularly benefit from the helpful advice for further reading included at the end of the book. The collection makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the gendering of urban experiences, spaces, and places, and what ultimately resonates throughout the volume is the exciting range and variety of current work on gender in an urban context.'Laura Harrison, Women's History ReviewTable of ContentsGender and the Urban Experience – Introduction PART I Economy, Circulations and Exchanges – Introduction Anne Montenach1 Patterns of Transmission and Urban Experience – When Gender Matters Anna Bellavitis2 Women, Gender and Credit in Early Modern Western European Towns Cathryn Spence3 Toleration, Liberty and Privileges – Gender and Commerce in Eighteenth-century European Towns Deborah Simonton4 Gender and Business during the Industrial Revolution Hannah Barker5 Poverty, Family Economies and Survival Strategies in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries – A Gender ApproachMontserrat Carbonell-Esteller6 Gendered Experiences of Work and Migration in Western Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Manuela MartiniPART II Space, Place and Environment – Introduction Elaine Chalus7 Male Servants, Identity and Urban Space in Eighteenth-Century England Amanda Flather8 Mapping the Spaces of Seduction– Morality, Gender and the City inEarly Nineteenth-Century Britain Katie Barclay9 Painting the Town – Portrayals of Change in Urban Riversides, London and the Thames, a Case Study Kemille S. Moore10 Modernity and Madrid – The Gendered Urban Geography of Carmen de Burgos’ La rampa Rebecca M. Bender11 Home, Urban Space and Gendered Practices in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Turku Riitta Laitinen12 The Gendered Geography of Violence in Bologna, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Sanne Muurling and Marion PluskotaPART III Civic Identity and Political Culture – Introduction Nina Javette Koefoed13 Women and Citizenship in Later Medieval York Sarah Rees Jones14 Civic Identity, ‘Juvenile’ Status and Gender in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Italian TownsEleonora Canepari15 ‘We Had a Row on the Politics of the Day’ – Gender and Political Sociability of the Elites in Stockholm, c. 1770–1800 My Hellsing16 Gender, Philanthropy and Civic Identities in Edinburgh, 1795–1830 Jane Rendall17 Negotiating Respectable Citizenship – Homosexual Emancipation Struggles in Early Twentieth-Century Copenhagen Niels Nyegaard18 Voting as an Act of Estate or Voting as an Act of Class? – Voting Women in Swedish Towns, c. 1720–1920 Åsa Karlsson SjögrenPART IV Material Culture in Gendered Urban Settings – Introduction Marjo Kaartinen19 Gender, Material Culture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Rome Renata Ago20 The Changing Objects of Civic Devotion – Gender, Politics and Votive Commissions in a Late Medieval Dalmatian ConfraternityAna Marinković21 Caring and Healing – Women, Bodies and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century French Cities Anne Carol22 Architectural Language and Mistranslations – A Comparative Global Approach to Women’s Urban Spaces Despina Stratigakos23 Shoes and the City – Shoes and their Sphere of Influence in Colonial America, 1740–1789 Kimberly Alexander24 Gendering the Automobile – Men, Women and the Car in Helsinki, 1900–1930 Teija Försti PART V Intimacy and Emotion – Introduction Katie Barclay25 Shaping London Merchant Identities – Emotions, Reputation and Power in the Court of Chancery Merridee L. Bailey26 Love Thy Neighbour? – The Gendered, Emotional and Spatial Production of Charity and Poverty in Sixteenth-Century France Susan Broomhall27 The Emotional Life of Boys in Eighteenth-Century Mexico CitySonya Lipsett-Rivera28 Emotions, Gender and the Body – The Case of Nineteenth-Century German Spa Towns Heikki Lempa29 Feeling Modern on the Russian Street – From Desire to Despair Mark D. Steinberg30 Risk! Pleasure! Affirmation! – Navigating Queer Urban Spaces in Twentieth-Century ScotlandJeff MeekPART VI The Colonial Town – Introduction Nigel Worden31 A Gendered History of Colonial Spanish American Cities and Towns, 1500s–1800 Leo J. Garofalo32 Gender in Batavia – Asian City, European Company TownJean Gelman Taylor33 Cities at Sea – Gender and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century British Colonial City, Philadelphia, Kingston, Madras and Calcutta Clare A. Lyons34 Gender, Race and the Spatiality of the Colonial Town in India Mary Hancock35 Gender and Urban Experience in Nineteenth-Century Australasian Towns Penny Russell36 South African Cities, Gender and Inventions of Tradition in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Vivian Bickford-Smith

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Book SynopsisA milestone in the understanding of British history and imperialism, this ground-breaking book radically reinterprets the course of modern economic development and the causes of overseas expansion during the past three centuries. Employing their concept of ''gentlemanly capitalism'', the authors draw imperial and domestic British history together to show how the shape of the nation and its economy depended on international and imperial ties, and how these ties were undone to produce the post-colonial world of today. Containing a significantly expanded and updated Foreword and Afterword, this third edition assesses the development of the debate since the book's original publication, discusses the imperial era in the context of the controversy over globalization, and shows how the study of the age of empires remains relevant to understanding the post-colonial world. Covering the full extent of the British empire from China to South America and taking a broad chronological view Trade Review"Cain and Hopkins’ British Imperialism reinvigorated the debate about the ‘Expansion of England’ over twenty years ago, and today its argument is as ambitious, intriguing, and provocative as ever. A triumph of scholarly synthesis that spans centuries and continents, it remains one of the truly indispensable texts for understanding the origins of empire."Allan Allport, Syracuse University, USA"British Imperialism still stands as expansive imperial history at its best: simultaneously methodical yet bold, detailed yet clear, its main arguments sparkle with a subversive revisionism that makes it fully deserving of its continuing position as essential reading on Britain’s global relationships in the modern age."Christopher Prior, University of Southampton, UK"The work of Cain and Hopkins is essential for understanding the scope and strength of the British Empire. While no one frame of analysis is sufficient to encompass the full complexity of the British Empire, finance capital was critical to its influence, expansion, and power relative to other contemporary states and empires. No work explains the scope of British financial power or its role in determining global relationships in the modern period better than British Imperialism."Charles Upchurch, Florida State University, USA"Cain and Hopkins’ British Imperialism reinvigorated the debate about the ‘Expansion of England’ over twenty years ago, and today its argument is as ambitious, intriguing, and provocative as ever. A triumph of scholarly synthesis that spans centuries and continents, it remains one of the truly indispensable texts for understanding the origins of empire."Allan Allport, Syracuse University, USA"British Imperialism still stands as expansive imperial history at its best: simultaneously methodical yet bold, detailed yet clear, its main arguments sparkle with a subversive revisionism that makes it fully deserving of its continuing position as essential reading on Britain’s global relationships in the modern age."Christopher Prior, University of Southampton, UK"The work of Cain and Hopkins is essential for understanding the scope and strength of the British Empire. While no one frame of analysis is sufficient to encompass the full complexity of the British Empire, finance capital was critical to its influence, expansion, and power relative to other contemporary states and empires. No work explains the scope of British financial power or its role in determining global relationships in the modern period better than British Imperialism."Charles Upchurch, Florida State University, USAPraise for previous editions:"A magisterial account of 300 years of British history, properly putting the empire right at the centre." Will Hutton, The Guardian "A stunning mixture of narrative, analysis and brillian historiographical deconstruction." Denis MacShane, New Statesman "As erudite as it is stimulating."Le Monde Diplomatique "Essential reading for anyone working in the City." Sunday TelegraphTable of ContentsForeword: The Continuing Debate on Empire. Part 1. 1. Introduction: 1688-1914. 1. The Problem and Context 2. Prospective: Aristocracy, Finance and Empire, 1688-1850 Part 2. The Gentlemanly Order: 1850-1914.. 3. ‘Something Peculiar to England’: The Service Sector, Wealth and Power, 1850-1914 4. Gentlmanly Capitalism and Economic Policy: City, Government and the ‘National Interest’, 1850-1914 5. ‘The Great Emporium’: Foreign Trade and Invisible Earnings, 1850-1914 6. Two Nations? Foreign Investment and the Domestic Economy. 1850-1914 7. Challenging Cosmopolitanism: The Tariff Problem and Imperial Unity, 1880-1914 Part 3. The Wider World: 1850-1914. 8. ‘An Extension of the Old Society’: Britain and the Colonies of Settlement, 1850-1914 9. Calling the New World into Existence: South America, 1815-1914 10. ‘Meeting her Obligations to her English Creditors’: India, 1858-1914 11. ‘The Imperious and Irresistable Necessity’: Britain and the Partition of Africa, 1882-1902 12. ‘We Offer Ourselves as Supporters’: The Ottoman Empire and Persia, 1838-1914 13. ‘Maintaining the Credit-Worthiness of the Chinese Governmant’: China, 1839-1911 Part 4. Redividing the World. 14. Britain, Germany and ‘Imperialist’ War, 1900-1914 15. Retrospect: 1688-1914 Part 5. The Empire in the Twentieth Century 16. The Imperialist Dynamic: From World War I to Decolonisation Part 6. The Gentlemanly Order, 1914-39. 17. ‘The Power of Constant Renewal’: Services, Finance and the Gentlemanly Elite, 1914-39 18. Industry, the City and the Decline of the International Economy, 1914-39 19. Upholding Gentlemanly Values: The American Challenge, 1914-31 20. ‘A Latter-Day Expression of Finanial Imperialism’: TheOrigins of the Sterling Area, 1931-39 Part 7. The Wider World, 1914-49 21. Maintaining Financial Discipline: The Dominions, 1914-39 22. ‘A New Era of Colonial Ambitions’: South America, 1914-39 23. ‘Financial Stability and Good Government’: India, 1914-47 24. ‘Playing the Game’ in Tropical Africa, 1914-40 25. ‘The only Great Undeveloped Market in the World’: China, 1911-49 Part 8. Losing an Empire and Finding a Role, 1939-2000 26. The City, the Sterling Area and Decolonisation 27. Conclusion: 1688-2000 Afterword:Empires and Globalization. Maps. Further Reading. 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Book SynopsisLonglisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction “Rebel historian” Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of US history in this ground breaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.Trade Review"There is no Hollywood movie about the magonistas, although reading “Bad Mexicans” is like watching one....Like Flores Magón, Lytle Hernández’s pen is her sword; her writing is a monument to the belief that language can change the world." -- Geraldo Cadava - The New Yorker"An award-winning, internationally acclaimed scholar, Kelly Lytle Hernández delivers historical analysis with clear relevance in today’s sociopolitical climate. A leading voice on issues ranging from immigration to policing to the criminal justice system more broadly, her work is known for empowering a wide range of communities, providing the necessary historical framing to build synergy among some of today’s most daring social movements." -- Heather Anne Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water"Kelly Lytle Hernández is one of the most compelling historians in her field. Synthesizing the complexities of race, gender, and ethnicity into the fabric of living history, her work sheds light on today’s crucial issues and her passion has the capacity to not only inform but to change minds." -- Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times best-selling author of What Truth Sounds Like"Kelly Lytle Hernández writes history and makes history. She is one of the most admired and respected historians of Mexican-American history and the United States. Conveying deep archival research in a compelling, accessible narrative, she breathes life in" -- Vicki Lynn Ruiz, winner of the National Humanities Medal

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Book SynopsisAndrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the occasionally imperialistic politic of finance which pervaded the British World at this time.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Graphs Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Dramatis Personae Introduction PART I: THE ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS OF CAPITAL EXPORT Capital Imports and Economic Development in Two Settler Societies Australian and Canadian Borrowing in the Edwardian City PART II: THE CITY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND SETTLER SOCIETIES The Rules of the Game Risk, Empire, and Britishness PART III: THE POLITICS OF FINANCE Canadian Politics and London Finance, 1896-1914 The Politics of Finance in Three Australian States: Victoria, New South Wales, and Western Australia, 1901-1914 Influence Stumped? The Commonwealth and the City, 1901-1913 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA major historical study of the global arms trade, revolving around the transfer of small arms from metropolitan Europe to the turbulent frontiers of Indian Ocean societies during the ''long'' nineteenth century (c.1780-1914).Trade Review'It is difficult to imagine a historical subject with a deeper resonance for our present age than the development of the global arms trade. In this book, Emrys Chew presents an essential and deeply researched analysis of the arms industry and the arms trade in Europe and Asia during the nineteenth century.' - C.A. Bayly, University of Cambridge, UK 'Arming the Periphery brilliantly reveals that the trade in small arms and the arms transfer system it engendered between Europe and the Indian Ocean region were fundamental to the development both of empire and, paradoxically, of state formation in the region. To help us fully understand the likely impact of the international small arms trade of the present and future, we need to understand its past patterns and structure. This book provides a uniquely valuable guide to the past, and by extension, to the future too.' - Geoffrey Till, King's College London, UK 'As the Indian Ocean returns to the centre-stage of world politics, Arming the Periphery offers a deep insight into the historic evolution of the region's security order. Emrys Chew's fascinating story on the arms trade between the European centre and the Asian periphery in the long nineteenth century will uniquely enrich the twenty-first century debates on the Indian Ocean amidst the unfolding redistribution of power in the littoral.' - C. Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and Foreign Affairs Columnist for The Indian Express '...well-researched, wide-ranging study...' - Highly recommended by ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Maps Preface Introduction The Arms Trade and Global Empire in the Indian Ocean The Arms Trade in the Metropolis The Arms Trade in the Western Indian Ocean The Arms Trade in the Eastern Indian Ocean The Arms Trade and War in the Indian Ocean Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an overview of critical developments surrounding the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. Major dilemmas are addressed in the economic, political, legal, social and diplomatic life of the territory, which remain in many cases unresolved and pressing as Hong Kong enters the new century.Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE: THE HONG KONG BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Hong Kong: The Business Environment in the New Special Administrative Region; E.V.Roberts & D.Petersen Changing Government-Business Relations and the Governance of Hong Kong; T.Ngo Hong Kong, China and the Handling of the Financial Crisis; P.Ferdinand Like Fish Finding Water: Economic Relations between Hong Kong and China; R.Ash Hong Kong and its Intermediate Role in Cross-Strait Economic Relations; T.Lin PART TWO: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS Hong Kong under Chinese Sovereignty; A Preliminary Assessment; B.Hook Beijing's Fifth Column and the Transfer of Power in Hong Kong, 1983-1997; Y.Qian Power as Non-Zero Sum? Central-Local Relations between the Hong Kong SAR and Beijing; L.C.Li The Hong Kong Public Service in Transition: Sustaining Administrative Capacity and Administrative Neutrality; I.Scott Constitutional Dilemmas in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; P.Wesley-Smith Towards a Democratic Audit in Hong Kong: Some Issues and Problems; R.Porter PART THREE: SOCIAL DISCOURSE Reflections on the Hong Kong Discourse on Human Rights; S.Weigelin-Schwiedrzik Church-State Relations in the Transition: An Historical Perspective; B.Leung Migration and Identities in Hong Kong's Transition; J.Salaff PART FOUR: EXTERNAL RELATIONS: The External Relations of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; M.S.Neves Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on multi-archival research in Korean, Russian and English, this book looks at the complexity and changes in Stalin''s policy toward Korea for answers about the division of Korea in 1945 and the failure of reunification between 1945 and 1948. Lee argues that the trusteeship decision is key to the division''s origins and permanency.Trade Review"Relying on both primary and secondary sources, notably newly accessible Soveit archives, Lee meticulously goesw over major wartime conferences and decisions among the Allied powers concerning the future shape of Korea. . .this book is an illuminating addition to scholarship on modern Korean history." - Vipan Chandra, Pacific Affairs"Jongsoo Lee's The Partition of Korea after World War II is an outstanding achievement. Lee provides a comprehensive and complex account of Korea's partition using an astonishingly impressive array of American, Russian, and Korean archival sources. His thorough and subtle analysis has set a new and very high standard for the subject. Many diplomatic historians aspire to write history from a multinational and multiarchival perspective but fall short: Jongsoo Lee, however, has not. His book is properly subtitled A Global History." - John Earl Haynes, author of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America "[A] close and thoughtful analysis of one of the most long-lasting and troublesome elements of Stalin's postwar foreign policy... This book provides the most extensive examination of this subject yet published and is particularly valuable for charting simultaneously the development of Soviet and American policy toward the peninsula together with the actions of Korean political leaders." - The Russian ReviewTable of ContentsPART 1: US AND SOVIET POLICIES TOWARDS KOREA, 1945-1948 US and Soviet Policies towards Korea until August 1945 US and Soviet Policies in August - December 1945 US and Soviet Policies, December 1945 - August 1948 PART 2: US AND SOVIET OCCUPATION POLICIES IN KOREA AND THE KOREAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, 1945-1948 US and Soviet Occupation Policies and the Korean Responses The Korean Actors and Their Policies on Korean Reunification

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Book SynopsisEuropean unity is a dream that has appealed to the imagination since the Middle Ages. Its motives have varied from a longing for peace to a deep-rooted abhorrence of diversity, as well as a yearning to maintain Europe's colonial dominance. This book offers a multifaceted history that takes in account the European imagination in a global context.Trade Review“Its critical meta-narrative stressing the dark sides and shortcomings attending the imaginings of European unity appears both timely and empirically sound. … this book without doubt not only sets new accents for European studies but also qualifies as an introductory textbook for students.” (Florian Greiner, European History Quarterly, Vol. 48 (1), 2018)“A strikingly rich and nuanced picture of the political and intellectual historical pedigree of European integration … .” (R. Lesaffer, American Historical Review, February, 2017)“It brilliantly shows that, beyond irenic discourses which present Europe as a land of freedom, tolerance, and diversity, there is another reality and another history of violence, exclusion, and obsession with uniformity” (Carl Bouchard, Peace & Change, Vol. 42 (1), January, 2017)“Historians have rarely offered such a well-balanced and well informed history of (Anti-)Europeanism … .” (Peter Pichler, History, Vol. 102 (349), January, 2017)“It is learned, impressively so, without being boring for even a single page, and it is subversive since it shows the dark sides of the noble quest for peace – an inbuilt tendency of the integration project to suppress diversity and to dominate. The current circumstance of Europe gives it a particularly sharp edge”. (J. H. H. Weiler, European Journal of International Law, Vol. 28 (1), 2017)“The period of time covered is, certainly, wide and multifaceted, and the nine chapters that make up the book are densely filled with historical details and information. … Imagining European Unity since 1000 AC encourages a reflection on the lessons from the past, illuminating the understanding of the present.” (Marta Postigo Asenjo, Global Intellectual History, Vol. 1 (2), 2017)“Pasture’s complex analysis works against the historiographic grain for studies on Europeans search for unity. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper division undergraduates and above.” (P. G. Wallace, Choice, December, 2015)Table of Contents1. 'Peace for our time': The European Quest for Peace 2. Peace in Christendom? 3. Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Evaporating Dream of a Perpetual Peace 4. Peace during the Concert 5. Between Empire, Market and Nation 6. The Long War 7. Hope and Deception 8. Pacification by Division 9. Epilogue: The EC's Colonial Empire

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Book SynopsisThe Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in the study of European empires and provides new perspectives on European colonialism and the challenges to it. With a post-1800 focus and extensive background coverage tracing the subject to the early 1700s, the book charts the rise and eclipse of European empires. Robert Aldrich and Andreas Stucki integrate innovative approaches and findings from the ''new imperial history'' and look at both the colonial era and the legacies it left behind for countries around the world after they gained independence. Dividing the text into three complementary sections, Aldrich and Stucki offer an original approach to the subject that allows you to explore: - Different eras of colonisation and decolonisation from early modern European colonialism to the present day - Overarching themes in colonial histoTrade ReviewA valuable book, one worthy of a place on the shelves of libraries in secondary schools and tertiary education colleges and universities. It is a book that knocks on doors and demands we open them. * ColdType *A masterly account full of fresh insights and engaging arguments. Their innovative structure enables Aldrich and Stucki to wield the historical lens with enviable flair. The vast topic of European empire is telescoped into comprehensible trends and themes, while still allowing for the precise focus on distinct times and places that brings the past alive. This is a history of the colonial world for the here and now. * Kirsten McKenzie, Professor of History, University of Sydney, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Writing (and Reading) of Colonial History Part I. Chronologies 2. Early Modern European Colonialism, 1490s-1815 3. The Making of Overseas Empires in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914 4. Colonial Rule and Misrule, 1914-1940 5. The Unmaking of Overseas Empires, 1940-1975 Part II. Themes 6. Land and Sea: Colonialism and the Environment 7. Crossed Destinies: The People of Empire 8. Slavery, Indentured Migration and Empire 9. Settler Colonialism: The British Dominions 10. Colonialism and the Body 11. Colonialism and the Mind 12. Colonialism and the Soul 13. Representations of Colonialism Part III. Cases 14. The Spanish Andes, 1780 15. Mauritius, 1810 16. Cuba, 1812 17. India, 1876 18. Burma and Vietnam, 1883-1885 19. Global Conflict, 1900 20. The South Pacific, 1903 21. Ceylon, 1907 22. German Southwest Africa, 1908 23. Ethiopia, 1936 24. The Dutch East Indies, 1938 25. Palestine and the Middle East, 1946 26. Algeria, 1962 27. The Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1971 28. Western Sahara, 1975 29. Belgium and the Congo, 1897 and 2018 30. Epilogue: The Legacies of Empires Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisThis major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original ''Opium War''. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to ''Mother China'', the most powerful Communist state in the world.

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Book SynopsisThis book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia from the late 19th century to the 1930s. Contending that labour conflicts in the Bengal jute industry must be understood against the backdrop of a radical change in the organisation of work in this period, Sailer shows how this led to a rupture in worker's relations in the workplace and beyond. Moving away from polarities such as class/culture or modernity/tradition and reconsidering the context around industrial conflicts in this period, Workplace relations in Colonial Bengal offers a new framework to analyse the changing organisation of work in colonial India, and identifies the implications for worker relations both inside and outside the factory. Focusing on a major colonial era industry, this book opens up new perspectives n the history of workers and colonial capitalism in modern India.Trade ReviewThis book reminds us that we must know what happens on the shop-floor to understand the factory. In South Asian labour historiography, we have theorized capitalist strategy without paying sufficient attention to the actual work process. It is also blindingly obvious, as the author of this book points out, that workers’ everyday experience of work is critical to their politics. * Samita Sen, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Cambridge University, UK *[This book] highlights the importance of work relations and the organisation of work – conventionally known as labour process theory – in our understanding of the Jute Industry, its working population and its political economy between the 1870s and the 1940s in Calcutta…The discussion presented in the monograph is illuminating and analytically valuable. * Dhiraj Kumar Nite, Social Scientist, Ambedkar University Delhi, India *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sets, Squads, and Shifts: The Emergence and Development of the 'Multiple Shift' System 2. Uninterrupted hours of work and frequent breaks: The modalities of shared work and excess employment at the shopfloor 3. Defending the spaces and rhythms of the workplace: Labour conflicts over the change in shift systems 4. ‘Various Paths Are Today Opened’: Working class politics and the General strike of 1929 5. 'Fight to finish': Labour Conflicts in the Bengal Jute Belt in the 1930s

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Book SynopsisOnyeka Nubia is a pioneering and internationally renowned historian, writer and presenter committed to the study of comparative histories and intersectionalism. Nubia has been a keynote presenter at numerous venues including the Houses of Parliament and the National Portrait Gallery, and has been a consultant and presenter for television programmes including BBC Two's History Cold Case and Channel 4's London's Lost Graveyard. He is the writer of Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England (2013) and Young Othello (2015).Trade ReviewOne of the most moving aspects of the book is its presentation of ordinary black Tudor lives, in country villages as well as the metropolis. Nubia seeks to restore their place in the story and in the nation. * Ewan Fernie, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham (Stratford-upon-Avon) *An exciting work, well-researched and well-written, and offering a new perspective. It provides evidence not only of the African presence but also demonstrates that Africans were a normal and integrated part of English society. * Hakim Adi, University of Chichester *A fascinating, rigorously researched and readable book restoring the Black presence to early modern British history. Onyeka offers a bold interpretation with significant repercussions for understanding Tudor society, revealing much too about our own times. * Paul Ward, Edge Hill University *Table of ContentsPreface Note on the Text Introduction 1. Imagining Tudor England 2. Beyond our Imaginations 3. Pathology of the Curse of Ham 4. Painting the Blackamoore Black 5. Black Strangers and Slaves turn’d African Neigbours Conclusion

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Book SynopsisCarlos F. Noreña is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is author of Imperial Ideals in the Roman West (2011), co-editor of From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World (Brill, 2018) and The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual (2010). He is currently working on a book on law, empire and political culture in the Roman Republic.Trade ReviewEach volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty * CHOICE *Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Introduction, Carlos F. Noreña, (University of California Berkeley, USA) 1. War, Michael Taylor, (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 2. Trade, Sitta von Reden, (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany) 3. Natural Worlds, Nicholas Purcell, (University of Oxford, UK) 4. Labor, Elio Lo Cascio, (Universita di Roma, Italy) 5. Mobility, Sailakshmi Ramgopal, (University of Chicago, USA) 6. Sexuality, Caroline Vout, (University of Cambridge, UK) 7. Resistance, Lisa Pilar Eberle, (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Race, Emma Dench, (Harvard University, USA) Notes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMatthew Gabriele is Professor of medieval studies and chair of the Department of Religion & Culture at Virginia Tech, USA. He is the author of An Empire of Memory: The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the First Crusade (2011), many articles on medieval Europe and the memory of the Middle Ages, and most recently with David M. Perry The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe (2021).Trade ReviewEach volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Introduction, Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech, USA) 1. War, Marcus Bull (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA) 2. Trade, Anne E. Lester (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) 3. Natural Worlds, Vicki Szabo (Western Carolina University, USA) 4. Labor, Martha Newman (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 5. Mobility, Shayne Legassie (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA) 6. Sexuality, Patricia Skinner (Swansea University, UK) 7. Resistance, Brett Whalen (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA) 8. Race, Cord J. Whitaker (Wellesley College, USA Notes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAnia Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism and Feminism in India (2018); Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (2002); ColonialismPostcolonialism (1998, 2005, 2015); Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (1989, 1992), and numerous articles on early modern studies, race, colonial histories, and feminism.Trade ReviewEach volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Introduction, Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 1. War, Thomas James Dandelet (University of California Berkeley, USA) 2. Trade, Dan Vitkus (University of California San Diego, USA) 3. Natural Worlds, Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex, UK) 4. Labor, Michael Guasco (Davidson College, USA) 5. Mobility, Jonathan Gil Harris (Ashoka University, India) 6. Sexuality, Valerie Traub (University of Michigan, USA) 7. Resistance, Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech, USA) 8. Race, Jonathan Burton (Whittier College, USA) Notes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIan Coller is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is the author of Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831 (2010) winner of the Australian Historical Association's W.K. Hancock award, and Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics and the French Revolution (2020).Trade ReviewEach volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty * CHOICE *Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Introduction, Ian Coller (La Trobe University, Australia) 1. War, Christopher Tozzi (Howard University, USA) 2. Trade, Junko Thérèse Takeda (Syracuse University, USA) 3. Natural Worlds, Laura J. Mitchell (University of California Irvine, USA) 4. Labor, Abigail Swingen (Texas Tech University, USA) 5. Mobility, Michael H. Fisher (Oberlin College, USA) 6. Sexuality, Merry E.Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA) 7. Resistance, Karwan Fatah-Black (University of Leiden, Netherlands) 8. Race, Vanita Seth (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) Notes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisKirsten McKenzie is Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Imperial Underworld: An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order (2016); A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty (2009) and Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Cape Town 1820 1850 (2004).Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Introduction, Kirsten McKenzie (University of Sydney, Australia) 1. War, Susan K. Kent (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) 2. Trade, Robert Aldrich (University of Sydney, Australia) 3. Natural Worlds, Ruth A. Morgan (Monash University, Australia) 4. Labor, Utathya Chattopadhyaya (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) 5. Mobility, Miranda Spieler (The American University of Paris, France) 6. Sexuality, Esme Cleall (University of Sheffield, UK) 7. Resistance, Jennifer Sessions (University of Iowa, USA) 8. Race, Matthew Fitzpatrick (Flinders University Adelaide, Australia) Notes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPatricia M.E. Lorcin is the Samuel Russell Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA. She is the author of Imperial Identities (1995; revised edition 2014), Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia: European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present (2013), and numerous edited and co-edited volumes on Western empires. She is currently working on a project tentatively entitled: The Cold War, Art, Politics and Transnational Activism during the period of Decolonization.Trade ReviewEach volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty * CHOICE *Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Introduction, Patricia Lorcin, (University of Minnesota-twin cities, USA) 1. War, Richard Fogarty, (University at Albany, SUNY, USA) 2. Trade, David Lynch, (Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, USA) 3. Natural Worlds, Robert Rouphail, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) 4. Labor, Daniel Bender, (University of Toronto, Canada) 5. Mobility, Jessica Namakkal, (Duke University, USA) 6. Sexuality, Anna Clark & Elizabeth Williams, (University of Minnesota and University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) 7. Resistance, Roland Burke, (La Trobe University, Australia) 8. Race, Bruce Hall, (University of California Berkeley, USA) Notes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDecolonizing Bodies offers novel theorizations of how racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchal violence erode the bodily schema and experiences of racialized and colonized populations, profoundly constraining their being in the world. The book invigorates embodiment studies by centering the experiences and struggles of Black, Indigenous, colonized, disabled, queer, and racialized subjects, showing how they live these displacements and disintegrations. The volume powerfully demonstrates how racism and colonialism sediment in bodily and habitual registers that are active, ongoing, made and remade. Bodies, the contributors argue, powerfully register the impacts of colonial and racialized violence, but through practices of embodiment, they also digest, expel, and transform them. In centering non-normative subjective experiences and making space for different kinds of embodied knowledge, Decolonizing Bodies also takes a step toward decolonizing academic kn

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Book SynopsisExploring the professional and political ideas of Newfoundland naval governors during the French Wars, this book traces the evolution of the Naval Governorship and administration of the region, shedding a light on a critical period of its early modern history. Contextualising Newfoundland as part of Britain's broader Atlantic Empire, Morrow focuses on the years 1793-1815 as it transitioned from a largely migratory fishery and nursery of seaman' to a colonial settlement with a resident British and Irish population. With a diversifying economy and growing demography amidst the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the governors of Newfoundland faced a unique set of challenges. Drawing upon various primary and secondary sources, Morrow provides a comprehensive account of their responses to the perceived needs of those they governed - both settler and indigenous - and reveals the professional attitudes and attributes they brought to bear on both their civil and military responsibilitieTrade Review“This is a well-researched, detailed and original study, and a major contribution to its field. In this groundbreaking and well researched study, Professor Morrow does an excellent job of outlining the role of naval officers in governing Newfoundland, shedding light not just on the history of the province but on its place in the wider world during a turbulent and crucially important period.” * Martin Wilcox, University of Hull, UK *“An excellent study that places Newfoundland into context with the 18th century British Atlantic Empire and demonstrates the great difficulty Naval Governors faced in balancing the needs and comfort of the residents with the requirements of a nation at prolonged war.” * J. Ross Dancy, Associate Professor, U.S. Naval War College, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Appointing Wartime Naval Governors 2. The Routine of Naval Command 3. The Routine of Civil Government 4. Authority, Discipline and Public Order 5. Public Welfare and Measures of Civic Improvement 6. Naval Government, the Indigenous People and the Failure of ‘Conciliation’ 7. Reforming the Framework of Naval Government Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisQuah Ee Ling is Associate Professor, Culture & Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is the author of Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism (Bloomsbury, 2025), Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore (2020) and Perspectives on Marital Dissolution: Divorce Biographies in Singapore (2015).

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