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  • - India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65
    af S. Amrith
    1.578,95 kr.

    This book offers a history of international public health spanning the colonial and post-colonial eras. The volume focuses on India and the transnational networks connecting developments in India with Southeast Asia, and the wider world and contributes to debates on nationalism, internationalism and science in an age of decolonization.

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    1.210,95 kr.

    'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. The volume advances our understanding of the rise of modern psychiatry as it collided with the psychology of colonial rule.

  • - Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion
     
    1.205,95 kr.

    Ireland in an Imperial World interrogates the myriad ways through which Irish men and women experienced, participated in, and challenged empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  • - Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
     
    1.966,95 kr.

    This book argues that the history of colonial empires has been shaped to a considerable extent by negative emotions such as anxiety, fear and embarrassment as well as by the regular occurrence of panics.

  • - Empire of Dissent
    af Valerie Wallace
    1.389,95 - 1.396,95 kr.

    This book offers a new interpretation of political reform in the settler colonies of Britain's empire in the early nineteenth century. It re-evaluates five notorious Scottish reformers and unpacks the Presbyterian foundation to their political ideas: Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), a poet in Cape Town;

  • - The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth
     
    1.595,95 kr.

    This book examines how the Crown has performed as Head of State across the UK and post war Commonwealth during times of political crisis. It explores the little-known relationships, powers and imperial legacies regarding modern heads of state in parliamentary regimes where so many decisions occur without parliamentary or public scrutiny.

  • af Neelam Srivastava
    1.391,95 kr.

    This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism.

  • af W. McIntyre
    748,95 - 822,95 kr.

    This book takes a new look at the Commonwealth from the founding of the Secretariat in 1965 to the 14th Commonwealth Games in 1990. The final part, on Functioning, looks at regionalism, functional organisations, professional linkages, peoples, sport and the role of the Queen as Head of the Commonwealth.

  • - A Study of Empire and Expansion
    af R. Hyam
    671,95 kr.

    The undisputed best introduction to the history of the world-wide pattern of British activity in the nineteenth century, embracing its expansive spirit as well as its formal territorial empire.

  • - Studies Presented to John Hargreaves
     
    1.100,95 kr.

    Three studies concern imperial questions in Africa in the nineteenth century (the Krio and the British, the kingdom of Asante and the prelude to the partition of East Africa) and two more discuss international aspects of decolonization in the twentieth century in relation to the French in Africa and the British in the Middle East.

  • af Paul Robertson & J. Singleton
    1.102,95 - 1.108,95 kr.

    In the early postwar era, Britain enjoyed a very close economic relationship with Australia and New Zealand through their common membership of the Sterling Area and the Commonwealth Preference Area. Special emphasis is given to the implications for Australia and New Zealand of Britain's growing interest in European integration.

  • - Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India
    af K. Wagner
    1.103,95 - 1.201,95 kr.

    Based largely on new material, this book examines thuggee as a type of banditry, emerging in a specific socio-economic and geographic context. The British usually described the thugs as fanatic assassins and Kali-worshippers, yet Wagner argues that the history of thuggee need no longer be limited to the study of its representation.

  • - Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal
    af Javed Majeed
    575,95 kr.

    This book examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of individual selfhood, and how the writing of autobiography, fused with the genre of the travelogue, played a key role in formulating the complex tie between interiority and nationality in South Asia.

  • - India, 1770-1880
    af M. Dodson
    856,95 kr.

    Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orientalism in India was also an inherently complex and unstable enterprise, predicated upon the cultural authority of the Sanskrit pandits.

  • af B. Hopkins
    615,95 - 990,95 kr.

    Examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain's imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century, and challenges the staid assumptions that the Afghans were little more than pawns in a larger Anglo-Russian imperial rivalry known as the 'Great Game'.

  • - Nationalism, Empire and Memory
    af M. Silvestri
    1.103,95 - 1.195,95 kr.

    Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as imperial heroes, and the commemoration of an Irish regiment's mutiny in India.

  • - Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c.1930-64
    af Larry Butler
    1.108,95 - 1.119,95 kr.

    This is a study of the evolving relationship between the British colonial state and the copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia, from the early stages of development to decolonization, encompassing depression, wartime mobilization and fundamental changes in the nature and context of colonial rule.

  • - Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830-1960
    af N. Chatterjee
    576,95 - 990,95 kr.

    A unique study of how a deeply religious country like India acquired the laws and policies of a secular state, highlighting the contradictory effects of British imperial policies, the complex role played by Indian Christians, and how this highly divided community shaped its own identity and debated that of their new nation.

  • af C. A. Bayly & Peter Fibiger Bang
    1.303,95 - 1.393,95 kr.

    A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. Leading interdisciplinary thinkers study tributary empires from diverse perspectives, illuminating the importance of these earlier forms of imperialism to broaden our perspective on modern concerns about empire and the legacy of colonialism.

  • af Jonathan Curry-Machado
    661,95 - 692,95 kr.

    The papers presented in this collection offer a wide range of cases, from Asia, Africa and the Americas, and broadly cover the last two centuries, in which commodities have led to the consolidation of a globalised economy and society - forging this out of distinctive local experiences of cultivation and production, and regional circuits of trade.

  • - Policy-Makers, Strategy and Diplomacy, 1945-55
    af W. McIntyre
    1.280,95 kr.

    This book contains a detailed analysis of American, British, Australian and New Zealand strategic planning during the early years of the Cold War, including their plans for fighting World War III in the Middle East, and the diplomatic negotiations leading up to the security treaty signed by Australia, New Zealand and the United States in 1951.

  • - Corruption in Burma c.1900
    af J. Saha
    559,95 - 944,95 kr.

    In this original study British rule in Burma is examined through quotidian acts of corruption. Saha outlines a novel way to study the colonial state as it was experienced in everyday life, revealing a complex world of state practices where legality and illegality were inseparable: the informal world upon which formal colonial power rested.

  • - Race, Violence, and Global Spectacle
    af R. Bright
    751,95 - 839,95 kr.

    This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the reconstruction period and places localised issues within a wider historiography.

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    568,95 kr.

    Port cities were the means through which cultural and economic exchange took place between continental societies and the maritime world. In examining the ports of Brazil, the Caribbean and West Africa, this volume will provide fresh insight into the meaning of the 'First Globalisation'.

  • - Reframing Decolonisation and Development
    af Tim Livsey
    1.359,95 kr.

    This book explores the world of Nigerian universities to offer an innovative perspective on the history of development and decolonisation from the 1930s to the 1960s.

  • - Britain, the Sterling Area, and Malaya 1945-1960
    af Alex Sutton
    874,95 kr.

    The Political Economy of Imperial Relations offers a much needed historical and theoretical intervention into the relationship between Britain and Malaya after the Second World War. It challenges existing accounts and details a strong continuity in this relationship from 1945 until 1960.

  • af G. Barton
    743,95 - 944,95 kr.

    Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world. This book traces the broad outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is western and how formal empire describes only the tip of the iceberg of British and American power.

  • af Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo & Antonio Costa-Pinto
    1.102,95 - 1.198,95 kr.

    This book provides an historical, critical analysis of the doctrine of 'civilising mission' in Portuguese colonialism in the crucial period from 1870 to 1930. Exploring international contexts and transnational connections, this 'civilising mission' is analysed and assessed by examining the employment and distribution of African manpower.

  • - French Policy and the Anglo-American Response in Tunisia and Morocco
    af Ryo Ikeda
    681,95 kr.

    This book examines French motivations behind the decolonisation of Tunisia and Morocco and the intra-Western Alliance relationships. It argues that changing French policy towards decolonisation brought about the unexpectedly quick process of independence of dependencies in the post-WWII era.

  • - Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World
     
    786,95 kr.

    Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues. With obvious literary appeal, these soon became stock figures. This is the first study to take deviance seriously, bringing together histories that reveal the complexity of a phenomenon that remains only dimly understood.