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Britain in China
Häftad, 1999
382 kr
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This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait …
Breakup of India and Palestine
The Causes and Legacies of Partition
Häftad, 2025
367 kr
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This book is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw attention to the pathways of peoples, geographic spaces, colonial policies, laws, and institutions that …
Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism
The Empire of Clouds in North-East India
Av Andrew May
Inbunden, 2012
1263 kr
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In 1841, the Welsh sent their first missionary, Thomas Jones, to evangelise the tribal peoples of the Khasi Hills of north-east India. This book follows Jones from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, the wettest place on earth and now one of the most Christianised parts of India. As colonised colonisers, …
Imperialism and Popular Culture
Häftad, 1987
382 kr
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Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalist …
Propaganda and Empire
The manipulation of British public opinion, 1880–1960
Häftad, 1986
382 kr
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It has been said that the British Empire, on which the sun never set, meant little to the man in the street. Apart from the jingoist eruptions at the death of Gordon or the relief of Mafeking he remained stonily indifferent to the imperial destiny that beckoned his rulers so alluringly. Strange, …
Empire and sexuality
Av Ronald Hyam
Häftad, 1991
382 kr
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Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as it did on the subordinate societies, the "Studies in Imperialism" series seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular …
Science, Race Relations and Resistance
Britain, 1870–1914
Inbunden, 2013
1263 kr
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By exploring the dimensions of race, race relations and resistance, this book offers a new account of the British Empire’s greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then …
Air Empire
British Imperial Civil Aviation, 1919–39
Av Gordon Pirie
Inbunden, 2009
1263 kr
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Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain’s development of international air …
Gender and imperialism
Häftad, 1998
382 kr
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This book marks an important new intervention into a vibrant area of scholarship, creating a dialogue between the histories of imperialism and of women and gender. By engaging critically with both traditional British imperial history and colonial discourse analysis, the essays demonstrate how …
empire of nature
Häftad, 1997
382 kr
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This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the 19th and early-20th centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between …
British culture and the end of empire
Av Stuart Ward
Häftad, 2001
382 kr
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This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound …
Reporting the Raj
The British Press and India, c.1880–1922
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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This book is the first analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British Government to manipulate press coverage as part of a strategy of imperial control. The press was an important forum for debate over the future of India and was used by …
Imperial persuaders
Images of Africa and Asia in British advertising
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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The first book to provide an historical survey of images of black people in advertising during the colonial period. Analyses the various conflicting, and changing ideologies of colonialism and racism in British advertising. Reveals the historical and production context of many well known …
Female imperialism and national identity
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
Häftad, 2009
382 kr
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Through a study of the British Empire’s largest women’s patriotic organisation, formed in 1900, and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws new light on women’s involvement in imperialism; on the history of ‘conservative’ …
Engendering whiteness
White women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627–1865
Av Cecily Jones
Häftad, 2014
382 kr
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Engendering whiteness represents a comparative analysis of the complex interweaving of race, gender, social class and sexuality in defining the contours of white women’s lives in Barbados and North Carolina during the era of slavery. Despite their gendered subordination, their social location …
West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Av Bill Schwarz
Häftad, 2003
371 kr
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The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain. Written in an accessible, lively style, with a range of wonderful and distinguished authors. Key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain; study thus far has concentrated on Caribbean …
Imperial cities
Landscape, display and identity
Av Felix Driver, David Gilbert
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. Examines large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in …
French Empire at War, 1940–1945
Häftad, 2007
382 kr
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The French empire at war draws on original research in France and Britain to investigate the history of the divided French empire – the Vichy and the Free French empires – during the Second World War.What emerges is a fascinating story. While it is clear that both the Vichy and Free French colonial …
Gender, crime and empire
Convicts, settlers and the state in early colonial Australia
Av Kirsty Reid
Häftad, 2012
374 kr
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Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen’s Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depict convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group, Gender, crime and empire argues that convict men and women in fact shared much in common. Placing men …
Silk and empire
Av Brenda King
Häftad, 2008
382 kr
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In this book, Brenda M. King challenges the notion that Britain always exploited its empire. Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship were all part of the Anglo-Indian silk trade and were nurtured in the era of empire through mutually beneficial collaboration. The trade operated within and …
Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness
Av Dana Arnold
Häftad, 2004
371 kr
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Considers how notions of Britishness were constructed and promoted through architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature. Maps important moments in the self-conscious evolution of the idea of ‘nation’ against a broad cultural historical framework. An important addition to the field of …
Colonial connections, 1815–45
Patronage, the information revolution and colonial government
Av Zoë Laidlaw
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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This groundbreaking book challenges standard interpretations of metropolitan strategies of rule in the early nineteenth century. After the Napoleonic wars, the British government ruled a more diverse empire than ever before, and the Colonial Office responded by cultivating strong personal links …
Martial races
The military, race and masculinity in British imperial culture, 1857–1914
Häftad, 2010
374 kr
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This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire’s fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As ‘martial races’ these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural disposition to the racial …
Sex, Politics and Empire
A Postcolonial Geography
Inbunden, 2006
1263 kr
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Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines …
Emigrant homecomings
The return movement of emigrants, 1600–2000
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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Emigrant homecomings addresses the significant but neglected issue of return migration to Britain and Europe since 1600. While emigration studies have become prominent in both scholarly and popular circles in recent years, return migration has remained comparatively under-researched, despite …
Human Capital and Empire
Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British Imperialism in Asia, C.1690–C.1820
Inbunden, 2021
1263 kr
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Human capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c. 1820. It focuses on why the three groups developed such distinctive and different profiles within the corporation and its wider colonial activities in Asia. Besides …
Human Capital and Empire
Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British Imperialism in Asia, C.1690–C.1820
Häftad, 2023
382 kr
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Human capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c. 1820. It focuses on why the three groups developed such distinctive and different profiles within the corporation and its wider colonial activities in Asia. Besides …
At the End of the Line
Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame 1945–80
Inbunden, 2006
1156 kr
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Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain’s long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict.The Colonial Police Service was created in 1936 …
At the end of the line
Colonial policing and the imperial endgame 1945–80
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain’s long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict.The Colonial Police Service was created in 1936 …
Race and empire
Eugenics in colonial Kenya
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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Race and empire tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. …
