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Making of Modern Afghanistan
AvB. Hopkins
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
576 kr
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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'.
Asian Empire and British Knowledge
China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion
AvU. Hillemann
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
569 kr
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British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China.
Empires of Religion
AvH. Carey
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
1 131 kr
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A sparkling new collection on religion and imperialism, covering Ireland and Britain, Australia, Canada, the Cape Colony and New Zealand, Botswana and Madagascar. Bursting with accounts of lively characters and incidents from around the British world, this collection is essential reading for all students of religious and imperial history.
Ireland and India
Nationalism, Empire and Memory
AvM. Silvestri
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
1 131 kr
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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.
Making of Indian Secularism
Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830-1960
AvN. Chatterjee
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
553 kr
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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.
Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire
Ireland, India and the Politics of Alfred Webb
AvJ. Regan-Lefebvre
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
593 kr
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The first biography of Alfred Webb, Irish nationalist and president of the 1894 Indian National Congress. The biography explores how Webb viewed nationalism as a vehicle for global social justice. Drawing on archives in Britain, Ireland and India the author reveals how Irish and Indians used cosmopolitan London to create networks across the Empire.
Settler Colonialism
A Theoretical Overview
AvL. Veracini
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 640 kr
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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.
Finance, Politics, and Imperialism
Australia, Canada, and the City of London, c.1896-1914
AvA. Dilley
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
569 kr
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Andrew 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.
Headhunting and Colonialism
Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870-1930
AvR. Roque
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 535 kr
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An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually dependent interaction between indigenous peoples and colonial powers, and how collected remains became regarded as objects of wider significance.
US Military in Hawai’i
Colonialism, Memory and Resistance
AvB. Ireland
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
569 kr
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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.
Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World
AvS. Reinert,P. Røge
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
569 kr
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This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth century, from the East to the West Indies.
Bengal Delta
Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840–1943
AvI. Iqbal
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 126 kr
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With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.
Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture
AvG. Barton
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
569 kr
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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.
Engaging Colonial Knowledge
Reading European Archives in World History
AvR. Roque,K. Wagner
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
569 kr
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Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
AvJost Dülffer,Marc Freym. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
569 kr
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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.
Domination of Strangers
Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835
AvJ. Wilson
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
1 131 kr
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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.
Ayurveda Made Modern
Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900-1955
AvR. Berger
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
569 kr
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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.
Tributary Empires in Global History
AvPeter Fibiger Bang,C. A. Baylym. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 356 kr
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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.
Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia
Regulating Consumption in British Burma
AvA. Wright
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 131 kr
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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.
Missionary Discourses of Difference
Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900
AvE. Cleall
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
559 kr
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Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged.
Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire 1759-1808
AvG. Paquette
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
625 kr
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This book offers a new interpretation of political reform in Spain and its American empire in the second half of the Eighteenth century. It examines the intellectual foundation of commercial, administrative and colonial policy during the tumultuous reigns of Charles III and Charles IV.
Making of Modern Afghanistan
AvB. Hopkins
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
464 kr
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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'.
Chinese Labour in South Africa, 1902-10
Race, Violence, and Global Spectacle
AvR. Bright
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
569 kr
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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.
Tributary Empires in Global History
AvPeter Fibiger Bang,C. A. Baylym. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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1 468 kr
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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.
Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815
AvK. Candlin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 131 kr
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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.
Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk
AvS. Polu
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
569 kr
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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.
Law, Disorder and the Colonial State
Corruption in Burma c.1900
AvJ. Saha
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
576 kr
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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.
Wind of Change
Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization
AvL. Butler,S. Stockwell
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 131 kr
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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.
Orientalism and Race
Aryanism in the British Empire
AvT. Ballantyne
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
1 131 kr
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This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding into debates in Britain, Ireland, India, and the Pacific. The global reach of the Aryan idea reflected the complex networks that enabled the global reach of British Imperialism. Tony Ballantyne charts the shifting meanings of Aryanism within these 'webs' of Empire.
Thuggee
Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India
AvK. Wagner
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 244 kr
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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.

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies – serie

Making of Modern Afghanistan

Asian Empire and British Knowledge

Empires of Religion

Ireland and India

Making of Indian Secularism

Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire

Settler Colonialism

Finance, Politics, and Imperialism

Headhunting and Colonialism

US Military in Hawai’i

Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World

Bengal Delta

Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture

Engaging Colonial Knowledge

Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century

Domination of Strangers

Ayurveda Made Modern

Tributary Empires in Global History

Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia

Missionary Discourses of Difference

Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire 1759-1808

Making of Modern Afghanistan

Chinese Labour in South Africa, 1902-10

Tributary Empires in Global History

Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815

Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940

Law, Disorder and the Colonial State

Wind of Change

Orientalism and Race

Thuggee