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Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887
Häftad, 2021
725 kr
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In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This was part of a larger story of Empire and East Asian geopolitics involving China, Japan, Korea and Russia. At the time Britain and Russia seemed …
Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions
The Zanzibar Sultanate, Britain, and France in the Indian Ocean, 1862–1905
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism met in the most …
British Imperialism and Turkish Nationalism in Cyprus, 1923-1939
Divide, Define and Rule
Av Ilia Xypolia
Häftad, 2019
949 kr
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As Cyprus experienced British imperial rule between 1878 and 1960, Greek and Turkish nationalism on the island developed at different times and at different speeds. Relations between Turkish Cypriots and the British on the one hand, and Greek Cypriots and the British on the other, were often …
Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian physicists Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974), Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) and Meghnad Saha (1893-1956). The analytical category "bhadralok …
Discourse of British and German Colonialism
Convergence and Competition
Av Felicity Rash, Geraldine Horan
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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This volume compares and contrasts British and German colonialist discourses from a variety of angles: philosophical, political, social, economic, legal, and discourse-linguistic. British and German cooperation and competition are presented as complementary forces in the European colonial project …
Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia
Av Gareth Knapman, Anthony Milner m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
605 kr
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This collection of essays collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question: what was the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia? The empire builders in Southeast Asia: Lord Minto, William Farquhar, John Leyden, …
Outskirts of Empire
Studies in British Power Projection
Av John Fisher
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britain’s interests in the Near East and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Essays address themes in British power projection in a geographically wide area encompassing parts of the Ottoman …
Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions
The Zanzibar Sultanate, Britain, and France in the Indian Ocean, 1862–1905
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism met in the most …
Colonialism, China and the Chinese
Amidst Empires
Av Peter Monteath, Matthew Fitzpatrick
Häftad, 2021
725 kr
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This book explores the place of China and the Chinese during the age of imperialism. Focusing not only on the state but also on the vitality of Chinese culture and the Chinese diaspora, it examines the seeming contradictions of a period in which China came under immense pressure from imperial …
First World War, Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India, 1914-1924
Häftad, 2021
725 kr
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Between 1914, when the Great War began, and 1924, when the Ottoman Caliphate ended, British and Indian officials and activists reformulated political ideas in the context of total war in the Middle East, Gandhian mass mobilisation, and the 1919 Amritsar massacre. Using discussions on travel, …
History of Italian Colonialism 1900-1914
The Promised Land: Volume I
Inbunden, 2025
2190 kr
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This book examines Italy’s colonial history from the turn of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War.This first volume engages with a period of huge social, political and cultural change in Italy resulting in a new dynamism on the African and expansionist front. Offering a …
History of Italian Colonialism 1914-1919
The Promised Land: Volume II
Inbunden, 2025
2578 kr
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This book examines Italy’s colonial history from the outbreak of the First World War to the first stirrings of Fascism in 1919.Offering a sweeping account of events and a vast array of characters, this second volume moves between Rome and the Alps, Libya, East Africa and beyond to tell of an Italy …
Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia
Av Gareth Knapman, Anthony Milner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2190 kr
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This collection of essays collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question: what was the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia? The empire builders in Southeast Asia: Lord Minto, William Farquhar, John Leyden, …
Secularism, Islam and Education in India, 1830–1910
Häftad, 2017
500 kr
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During the nineteenth century British officials in India decided that the education system should be exclusively secular. Drawing on sources from public and private archives, Ivermee presents a study of British/Muslim negotiations over the secularization of colonial Indian education and on the …
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870
John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality
Inbunden, 2016
2818 kr
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The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also one of the …
British Imperialism and Turkish Nationalism in Cyprus, 1923-1939
Divide, Define and Rule
Av Ilia Xypolia
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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As Cyprus experienced British imperial rule between 1878 and 1960, Greek and Turkish nationalism on the island developed at different times and at different speeds. Relations between Turkish Cypriots and the British on the one hand, and Greek Cypriots and the British on the other, were often …
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870
John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality
Häftad, 2018
844 kr
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The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also one of the …
History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907
Europe’s Last Empire
Häftad, 2018
785 kr
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This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in …
Discourse of British and German Colonialism
Convergence and Competition
Av Felicity Rash, Geraldine Horan
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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This volume compares and contrasts British and German colonialist discourses from a variety of angles: philosophical, political, social, economic, legal, and discourse-linguistic. British and German cooperation and competition are presented as complementary forces in the European colonial project …
First World War, Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India, 1914-1924
Inbunden, 2019
2578 kr
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Between 1914, when the Great War began, and 1924, when the Ottoman Caliphate ended, British and Indian officials and activists reformulated political ideas in the context of total war in the Middle East, Gandhian mass mobilisation, and the 1919 Amritsar massacre. Using discussions on travel, …
Colonialism, China and the Chinese
Amidst Empires
Av Peter Monteath, Matthew Fitzpatrick
Inbunden, 2019
2578 kr
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This book explores the place of China and the Chinese during the age of imperialism. Focusing not only on the state but also on the vitality of Chinese culture and the Chinese diaspora, it examines the seeming contradictions of a period in which China came under immense pressure from imperial …
Outskirts of Empire
Studies in British Power Projection
Av John Fisher
Inbunden, 2018
2578 kr
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Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britain’s interests in the Near East and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Essays address themes in British power projection in a geographically wide area encompassing parts of the Ottoman …
Australian Between Empires: The Life of Percy Spender
The Life of Percy Spender
Av David Lowe
Häftad, 2016
870 kr
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Part biography, part transnational history, this study details the life and career of Percy Spender, one of Australia's most prominent twentieth-century political figures.
Theatre of Empire
Frontier Performances in America, 1750–1860
Häftad, 2016
844 kr
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Focusing on the years between 1750 and 1860, this study follows the creation and perpetuation of an imperial culture, from the London metropole to the Great Plains.
British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914
Häftad, 2016
844 kr
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Using a wide range of primary sources that include correspondence, diaries, technical reports, institutional minutes and periodicals, Andersen reconstructs the networks and activities of Britain’s engineers while focusing on London as a centre of imperial expansion.
Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia
Häftad, 2016
844 kr
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This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin’s scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the reconstruction of the voyage during the expedition’s stay in colonial Sydney and how this sheds new light on our understanding of French society, …
Race and Identity in the Tasman World, 1769–1840
Häftad, 2016
844 kr
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British imperial encounters with indigenous cultures created perceptions and stereotypes that still persist today. The initial creation of racial images in relation to violence had particular consequences for land ownership. Standfield examines these differences and how they occurred.
Quest for the Northwest Passage
Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576–1806
Av Frédéric Regard, Frédéric Regard
Häftad, 2016
844 kr
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These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage – the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century.
Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century
Discovering the Northwest Passage
Av Frédéric Regard, Frédéric Regard
Häftad, 2016
949 kr
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Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture.
Empire of Political Thought
Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government
Av Bruce Buchan
Häftad, 2016
844 kr
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A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms of Western political thought. It emphasises how the framework of ideas drawn from the traditions of Western political thought was employed in the …
