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  • af Bronwen Everill
    1.255,95 - 1.260,95 kr.

    Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia to understand their role in the anti-slavery colonization movements of Britain and America.

  • - Cases and Comparisons
     
    1.076,95 kr.

    This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking into account diverse chronologies of decolonization, and evaluating the specificities of each imperial configuration under appreciation (Portuguese, Belgian, French, British, Dutch).

  • - The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation
    af Julia Tischler
    1.167,95 - 1.437,95 kr.

    'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Focusing on a case study of the Kariba Dam in central-southern Africa and based on an array of primary sources and interviews the book provides a nuanced understanding of development in the turbulent late 1950s, a time when most colonies moved towards independence.

  • af Jerome Teelucksingh
    550,95 - 556,95 kr.

    This book provides evidence that Labour in Trinidad and Tobago played a vital role in undermining British colonialism and advocating for federation and self-government. Furthermore, there is emphasis on the pioneering efforts of the Labour movement in party politics, social justice, and working class solidarity.

  • - Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World
     
    1.168,95 kr.

    The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the 19th century has been much studied. But there have been few accounts of what this meant for the Indigenous populations. This book shows that Indigenous communities tenaciously held land in the midst of dispossession, whilst becoming interconnected through their struggles to do so.

  • - Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization
     
    1.076,95 kr.

    Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark six-week African tour, presaged the end of the British Empire in Africa. This book, the first to focus on Macmillan's 'Wind of Change', comprises a series of essays by leading historians in the field.

  • af Ellen R. Feingold
    883,95 - 1.178,95 kr.

    This book is the first study of the development and decolonization of a British colonial high court in Africa. Colonial Justice and Decolonization in the High Court of Tanzania is a powerful reminder of the crucial roles played by common law courts in the operation and legitimization of both colonial and post-colonial states.

  • - The Forgotten History
    af Anna Greenwood & Harshad Topiwala
    552,95 - 558,95 kr.

    This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940. The story of these important Indian professionals presents a rare social history of an important political minority.

  • - Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk
    af Sandhya L. Polu
    553,95 - 557,95 kr.

    Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.

  • - Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India
    af K. Wagner
    1.075,95 - 1.171,95 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.

  • - Regulating Consumption in British Burma
    af A. Wright
    1.065,95 - 1.070,95 kr.

    This study investigates the connections between opium policy and imperialism in Burma. It examines what influenced the imperial regime's opium policy decisions, such as racial ideologies, the necessity of articulating a convincing rationale for British governance, and Burma's position in multiple imperial and transnational networks.

  • af Kit Candlin
    1.074,95 - 1.075,95 kr.

    The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Caribbean, the role of 'free people of colour' and the nature of slavery.

  • af Jonathan Curry-Machado
    557,95 - 559,95 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.

  • af Marc Frey & Jost Dulffer
    559,95 kr.

    Decolonization changed the spatial order of the globe, the imagination of men and women around the world and established images of the globe. Both individuals and social groups shaped decolonization itself: this volume puts agency squarely at the centre of debate by looking at elites and leaders who changed the course of history across the world.

  • - Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830-1960
    af N. Chatterjee
    561,95 - 562,95 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.

  • - Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900-1955
    af R. Berger
    550,95 - 556,95 kr.

    This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a 'modern' medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in late colonial India.

  • - A Theoretical Overview
    af Lorenzo Veracini
    1.349,95 kr.

    A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects tried to establish ideal and regenerated political bodies.

  • - Colonialism, Memory and Resistance
    af B. Ireland
    556,95 - 558,95 kr.

    An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for the benefits of militarism in the islands.

  • - Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835
    af Jon E. Wilson
    1.066,95 - 1.072,95 kr.

    Offering a major new interpretation of the transformation of political thought and practice in colonial India, The Domination of Strangers traces the origins of modern ideas about the state and Indian civil society to the practical interaction between the British and their south Asian subjects.

  • af B. Hopkins
    560,95 - 599,95 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'.

  • - The Politics of Preference
    af F. McKenzie
    1.075,95 - 1.086,95 kr.

    This work is a path-breaking study of the changing attitudes of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to Britain and the Commonwealth in the 1940s and the effect of those changes on their individual and collective standing in international affairs.

  • - Aryanism in the British Empire
    af Tony Ballantyne
    1.068,95 - 1.077,95 kr.

    This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The global reach of the Aryan idea reflected the complex networks that enabled the global reach of British Imperialism.

  • - From Anti-Imperialism to Cultural Colonialism and Complicity
     
    1.084,95 kr.

    Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empires of Europe - Finland.

  • - Judicial Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century
    af Haruki Inagaki
    1.259,95 kr.

    This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians' forum shopping, the legal practice which resulted in jurisdictional jockeying between an executive, the East India Company, and a judiciary, the King's Court.

  • - Maritime competition and Imperial Power
    af Bert Becker
    1.562,95 kr.

    This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930.

  • - Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge
     
    1.364,95 kr.

    This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean. They also reveal the agency of healers, sufferers and local societies, in encounters with modernising imperial states, medical science and commercialisation.

  • - Nationalism, Empire and Memory
    af M. Silvestri
    1.076,95 - 1.165,95 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.

  • - Tradition, Governance and Legacy
    af Soren Rud
    975,95 - 1.069,95 kr.

    This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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    698,95 kr.

    This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspective, analysing how ideas and visions of empire took shape in imperial practice from the seventeenth century to the present day.