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Scandal of Colonial Rule
Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution
Häftad, 2012
389 kr
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In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating account of the unfolding of this colonial …
The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland
Inbunden, 2011
1291 kr
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This book is a major study of the cultural foundations of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism more generally. John Patrick Montaño traces the roots of colonialism in the key relationship of cultivation and civility in Tudor England and shows the central role this …
Intimate Strangers
Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters
Inbunden, 2010
1391 kr
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When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against …
An Empire of Facts
Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914
Inbunden, 2009
1677 kr
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An Empire of Facts presents a fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in France's largest and most important colony. During the period from 1870 to 1914, travelers, bureaucrats, scholars, and writers formed influential and long-lasting misconceptions about Islam that …
Ocean of Letters
Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
Inbunden, 2009
1928 kr
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Ocean of Letters is a remarkable history of imperialism, language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of the Indian Ocean in the early modern period. Ranging from Madagascar to the Mascarenes, the Comores, and South Africa, Pier M. Larson sheds new light on the roles of slavery, …
Drawing the Global Colour Line
White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality
Av Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds
Häftad, 2008
552 kr
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In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined their studies of race-relations to a national …
Ocean of Letters
Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
Häftad, 2009
687 kr
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Ocean of Letters is a remarkable history of imperialism, language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of the Indian Ocean in the early modern period. Ranging from Madagascar to the Mascarenes, the Comores, and South Africa, Pier M. Larson sheds new light on the roles of slavery, …
Violence and Colonial Order
Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940
Inbunden, 2012
1610 kr
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This is a pioneering, multi-empire account of the relationship between the politics of imperial repression and the economic structures of European colonies between the two World Wars. Ranging across colonial Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, Martin Thomas explores the structure of local …
Drawing the Global Colour Line
White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality
Av Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds
Inbunden, 2008
1320 kr
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In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined their studies of race-relations to a national …
Lucky Valley
Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism
Inbunden, 2024
577 kr
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Why does Edward Long's History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long's History, that most 'civilised' of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deployed natural history and social theory, carefully mapping the island, and drawing on poetry and …
Lucky Valley
Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism
Häftad, 2025
432 kr
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Why does Edward Long's History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long's History, that most 'civilised' of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deployed natural history and social theory, carefully mapping the island, and drawing on poetry and …
The Overseer State
Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812-1916
Häftad, 2026
592 kr
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In this compelling work, Sascha Auerbach offers a bold new historical interpretation of late-stage slavery, its long-term legacies, and its entanglement with the development of the modern state. In the wake of abolition, from the Caribbean to southern Africa to Southeast Asia, a fusion of …
Overseer State
Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812–1916
Inbunden, 2025
1777 kr
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In this compelling work, Sascha Auerbach offers a bold new historical interpretation of late-stage slavery, its long-term legacies, and its entanglement with the development of the modern state. In the wake of abolition, from the Caribbean to southern Africa to Southeast Asia, a fusion of …
Soldiers of Uncertain Rank
The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture
Inbunden, 2024
1442 kr
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The West India Regiments were an anomalous presence in the British Army. Raised in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean in an act of military desperation, their rank-and-file were overwhelmingly men of African descent, initially enslaved. As such, the regiments held a unique but ambiguous place in …
Colonial Caregivers
Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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Colonial Caregivers offers a compelling cultural and social history of ayahs (nannies/maids), by exploring domestic intimacy and exploitation in colonial South Asia. Working for British imperial families from the mid-1700s to the mid-1900s, South Asian ayahs, as Chakraborty shows, not only provided …
Unsettled Subjects
Race, Mobility and Colonial Citizenship in the Australian Settler Colonies
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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Lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia served as a crossroads for trade and migration across the British Empire. Australia's settler colonies were not only subject to British immigration but were also the destination of emigration from Asia and 'Asia Minor' on terms of both …
Scandal of Colonial Rule
Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution
Inbunden, 2012
1341 kr
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In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating account of the unfolding of this colonial …
The Body of the Conquistador
Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700
Inbunden, 2012
1677 kr
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This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas …
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance
Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Inbunden, 2014
1526 kr
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How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian …
Subaltern Lives
Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920
Inbunden, 2012
938 kr
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Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, …
The Cultural Politics of Obeah
Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World
Av Diana Paton
Inbunden, 2015
1928 kr
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An innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean spiritual healing techniques known as obeah and their place in everyday life in the region. Spanning two centuries, the book results from extensive research on the development and implementation of anti-obeah legislation. It …
Imperial Russia's Muslims
Islam, Empire and European Modernity, 1788-1914
Av Mustafa Tuna
Inbunden, 2015
1526 kr
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Imperial Russia's Muslims offers an exploration of social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia from the late eighteenth century through to the outbreak of the First World War. Drawing from a wealth of Russian and Turkic sources, Mustafa Tuna surveys the roles of …
Decolonisation and the Pacific
Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire
Inbunden, 2016
1641 kr
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This book charts the previously untold story of decolonisation in the oceanic world of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, presenting it both as an indigenous and an international phenomenon. Tracey Banivanua Mar reveals how the inherent limits of decolonisation were laid bare by the historical …
Colonial Relations
The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World
Av Adele Perry
Inbunden, 2015
1626 kr
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A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The prominent colonial governor James Douglas was born in 1803 in what is now Guyana, probably to a free woman of colour and an …
Imperial Underworld
An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order
Inbunden, 2016
1408 kr
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During a major overhaul of British imperial policy following the Napoleonic Wars, an escaped convict reinvented himself as an improbable activist, renowned for his exposés of government misconduct and corruption in the Cape Colony and New South Wales. Charting scandals unleashed by the man known …
Taking Liberty
Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890
Av Ann Curthoys, Jessie Mitchell
Inbunden, 2018
1928 kr
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At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent …
To Be Free and French
Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire
Inbunden, 2017
1277 kr
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The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of color for rights under the French …
The Anticolonial Front
The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945-1960
Av John Munro
Inbunden, 2017
653 kr
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This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black …
Protecting the Empire's Humanity
Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830-1870
Inbunden, 2021
1761 kr
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Rooted in the extraordinary archive of Quaker physician and humanitarian activist, Dr Thomas Hodgkin, this book explores the efforts of the Aborigines' Protection Society to expose Britain's hypocrisy and imperial crimes in the mid-nineteenth century. Hodgkin's correspondents stretched from Liberia …
Taking Liberty
Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890
Av Ann Curthoys, Jessie Mitchell
Häftad, 2020
672 kr
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At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent …
