Colonialism & imperialism books

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Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630–1860

Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa...

Author: Angus E. Dalrymple-Smith
ISBN: 9789004460898
Format: Paperback
$155.76

Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630–1860 by Angus Dalrymple-Smith offers a new interpretation...  Read More >>

Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition

Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction...

Author: David Arnold
ISBN: 9780520379343
Format: Hardback
$115.95

Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and...  Read More >>

Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism

Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism...

Author: Meg Brayshaw
ISBN: 9783030644253
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book examines literary representations of Sydney and its waterway in the context of Australian modernism and...  Read More >>

Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America

Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early...

Author: Claire Priest
ISBN: 9780691158761
Format: Hardback
$72.99

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven before the...  Read More >>

Identities, Histories and Values in Postcolonial Nigeria

Identities, Histories and Values in Postcolonial Nigeria...

Author: Adeshina Afolayan
ISBN: 9781786615626
Format: Hardback
$285.00

This collection offers new perspectives that explore and reshape new directions around which postcolonial Nigeria...  Read More >>

Conferencia Mundial dos Povos: Acao Mundial dos Povos

Conferencia Mundial dos Povos: Acao Mundial dos Povos...

Author: Prof Silva Rocha
ISBN: 9798720138578
Format: Paperback
$23.76

IPEA - TPP / UnB MsC. autor . Com as exclusoes do PT, Psol, Pstu, Pco UNE, vieram apoiar e coordenar as maifestacoes:...  Read More >>

Scripting Shame in African Literature

Scripting Shame in African Literature

Author: Stephen L. Bishop
ISBN: 9781800348431
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book locates the frequent expressions of shame in sub-Saharan African literature and shows how its diverse...  Read More >>

Instruments of Empire: Colonial Elites and U.S. Governance in Early National Louisiana, 1803-1815

Instruments of Empire: Colonial Elites and U.S. Governance...

Author: Michael K. Beauchamp
ISBN: 9780807174289
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Examines the challenges that resulted from US territorial expansion through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. In doing...  Read More >>

The Begums of Bhopal: A Dynasty of Women Rulers in Raj India

The Begums of Bhopal: A Dynasty of Women Rulers in Raj...

Author: Shaharyar M. Khan
ISBN: 9781350180277
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Between 1819 and 1926 four Muslim women rulers reigned over Bhopal, the second largest Muslim state of India, despite...  Read More >>

Development Governor: Sir Geoffrey Colby - A Biography

Development Governor: Sir Geoffrey Colby - A Biography...

Author: Colin Baker (University of Glamorgan, UK)
ISBN: 9781350183940
Format: Paperback
$64.99

"A biography of Sir Geoffrey Colby ""development governor"" in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in the period leading up to...  Read More >>

Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in India, 1819-1835

Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison...

Author: Professor Douglas M. Peers (University of Waterloo, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350183858
Format: Paperback
$64.99

While popular images of the British Raj are saturated with images and memories of military campaigns, remarkably...  Read More >>

Colonial Educators: The British Indian and Colonial Education Service 1858-1983

Colonial Educators: The British Indian and Colonial...

Author: Clive Whitehead
ISBN: 9781472982421
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Education and the British Empire: cultural imperialism or vital preparation for independence and nationhood? This...  Read More >>

Strangers in the Land: The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire

Strangers in the Land: The Rise and Decline of the British...

Author: Roderick Cavaliero (Independent Historian)
ISBN: 9781350179974
Format: Paperback
$64.99

The Indian Empire was the jewel in the crown and Queen Victoria was Empress of India. But the end came with Indian...  Read More >>

German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires

German and United States Colonialism in a Connected...

Author: Janne Lahti
ISBN: 9783030532055
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book contributes to global history by examining the connected histories of German and United States colonial...  Read More >>

British Legacy in Nigeria: A Bondage That Demands Freedom

British Legacy in Nigeria: A Bondage That Demands Freedom...

Author: Julius Afolalu
ISBN: 9798718523317
Format: Paperback
$25.08

"Britain, the most powerful country in Europe and, at the height of her power, in the entire world, annexed the...  Read More >>

Black Resettlement and the American Civil War

Black Resettlement and the American Civil War

Author: Sebastian N. Page (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107141773
Format: Hardback
$131.94

Black Resettlement and the American Civil War is the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World

India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World...

Author: Jagjeet Lally
ISBN: 9781787383265
Format: Hardback
$139.00

India's caravan trade with central Asia was at the heart of the complex web of routes making up the Silk Roads....  Read More >>

Journey which Father António Gomes made to the Empire of Manomotapa

Journey which Father António Gomes made to the Empire...

Author: Malyn Newitt (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780197266793
Format: Hardback
$153.95

Gomes's Viagem..., written in 1648, presents in rare detail the relations of the Portuguese creole community with...  Read More >>

South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives

South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law,...

Author: Neilesh Bose (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350124677
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This collection explores how South Asian migrations in modern history have shaped key aspects of globalization since...  Read More >>

The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination and its Consequences

The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination...

Author: Avraham Faust (Professor of Archaeology, Professor of Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University)
ISBN: 9780198841630
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Using one of the world's richest archaeological datasets, Avraham Faust reconstructs the outcomes of the Assyrian...  Read More >>

The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism

The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological...

Author: Markus Wissen ,  Ulrich Brand
ISBN: 9781788739122
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Our Unsustainable Life: Why We Can't Have Everything We Want  Read More >>

The Travels of Robert Lyall, 1789–1831: Scottish Surgeon, Naturalist and British Agent to the Court of Madagascar

The Travels of Robert Lyall, 1789–1831: Scottish Surgeon,...

Author: Gwyn Campbell
ISBN: 9783030516475
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book explores the life of Robert Lyall, surgeon, botanist, voyager, British Agent to the court of Madagascar....  Read More >>

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