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Making of Modern Afghanistan
Av B. Hopkins
Inbunden, 2008
567 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 …
British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Connected Empires across the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Inbunden, 2019
1693 kr
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This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often frères ennemis. It argues that in crucial ways the British and French colonial empires influenced each …
Asian Empire and British Knowledge
China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion
Av U. Hillemann
Inbunden, 2009
568 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 …
Empires of Religion
Av H. Carey
Inbunden, 2008
1128 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 …
Ireland and India
Nationalism, Empire and Memory
Av M. Silvestri
Inbunden, 2009
1128 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 …
Making of Indian Secularism
Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830-1960
Inbunden, 2011
551 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 …
Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire
Ireland, India and the Politics of Alfred Webb
Inbunden, 2009
585 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 …
Settler Colonialism
A Theoretical Overview
Av L. Veracini
Inbunden, 2010
1684 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 …
Finance, Politics, and Imperialism
Australia, Canada, and the City of London, c.1896-1914
Av A. Dilley
Inbunden, 2011
568 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 …
Headhunting and Colonialism
Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870-1930
Av R. Roque
Inbunden, 2010
1531 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 …
US Military in Hawai’i
Colonialism, Memory and Resistance
Av B. Ireland
Inbunden, 2010
568 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
Av S. Reinert, P. Røge
Inbunden, 2013
568 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 …
Bengal Delta
Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840–1943
Av I. Iqbal
Inbunden, 2010
1128 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 …
Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture
Av G. Barton
Inbunden, 2014
568 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 …
Engaging Colonial Knowledge
Reading European Archives in World History
Inbunden, 2011
568 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 …
Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
Av Jost Dülffer, Marc Frey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
568 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 …
Domination of Strangers
Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835
Av J. Wilson
Häftad, 2008
1128 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
Av R. Berger
Inbunden, 2013
568 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
Av Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1352 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 …
Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia
Regulating Consumption in British Burma
Av A. Wright
Inbunden, 2013
1128 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 …
Missionary Discourses of Difference
Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900
Av E. Cleall
Inbunden, 2012
551 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 …
Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire 1759-1808
Av G. Paquette
Häftad, 2008
624 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
Av B. Hopkins
Häftad, 2008
479 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 …
Chinese Labour in South Africa, 1902-10
Race, Violence, and Global Spectacle
Av R. Bright
Inbunden, 2013
568 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 …
Tributary Empires in Global History
Av Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
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1464 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 …
Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815
Av K. Candlin
Inbunden, 2012
1128 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' …
Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk
Av S. Polu
Inbunden, 2012
568 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 …
Law, Disorder and the Colonial State
Corruption in Burma c.1900
Av J. Saha
Inbunden, 2013
568 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 …
Wind of Change
Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization
Inbunden, 2013
1128 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 …
Orientalism and Race
Aryanism in the British Empire
Häftad, 2001
1128 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 …
