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  • av Charles Ivar McGrath
    840 - 2 170,-

    Historians often view early modern Ireland as a testing ground for subsequent British colonial adventures further afield. McGrath argues against this passive view, suggesting that Ireland played an enthusiastic role in the establishment and expansion of the first British Empire. He focuses on two key areas of empire-building: finance and defence.

  • av USA) Roy Chowdhury & Sharmishtha (University of Connecticut
    640 - 1 970,-

    "This book presents a multifaceted picture of Indian politics at a time when total war and resurgent anticolonial activism were reshaping assumptions about state power, culture, and resistance"--

  • - Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa
     
    466,-

    Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.

  • - Discovering the Northwest Passage
    av Frederic (Sorbonne University Regard
    936 - 2 350,-

  • - Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576-1806
    av Frederic (Sorbonne University Regard
    840 - 2 170,-

  • av Rachel Standfield
    840 - 2 170,-

  • av Nicole Starbuck
    840 - 2 170,-

    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, politics and science in the era of Bonaparte.

  • av Casper Andersen
    840 - 2 170,-

    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.

  • - Frontier Performances in America, 1750-1860
    av Douglas S. Harvey
    840 - 2 100,-

    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.

  • - The Life of Percy Spender
    av David Lowe
    840 - 2 100,-

  • - Peripheral Voices, 1754-1815
    av Kate Marsh
    840 - 2 026,-

  • - Beyond Jamestown
    av L. H. Roper
    840 - 2 170,-

    This study situates the colonization of Virginia, the centrepiece of early English overseas settlement activity, in the social and political landscape of the early seventeenth century.

  • - National Identity and Empire, 1760-1835
    av Nigel Little
    840 - 2 026,-

  • - Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government
    av Bruce Buchan
    840 - 2 170,-

    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 imperial government of Indigenous peoples.

  • - Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition
    av Christer Petley
    840 - 2 170,-

  • - A Life of Sidney Bunting, 1873-1936
    av Allison Drew
    840 - 2 100,-

  • - Alfred Milner and the British Empire
    av J. Lee Thompson
    840 - 2 100,-

  • av Rebecca Ard Boone
    840 - 2 170,-

    As Grand Chancellor to the Holy Roman Emperor, Mercurino di Gattinara (1465-1530) shaped the administration and aims of the Spanish Empire. Ard Boone situates Gattinara at the heart of Renaissance politics and propaganda and provides the first English translation of his autobiography in full.

  • - Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa
     
    1 436,-

    Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.

  • av Sarah Irving
    840 - 2 026,-

    Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.

  • - Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England
    av Preeti Nijhar
    840 - 2 186,-

  • - Serving the King
    av David Barry (Duke University Gaspar
    1 936,-

    During the Seven Years¿ War (1756¿63) the Caribbean region became the setting for major naval and military operations in which Britain engaged its imperial rivals, France and Spain. This book focuses primarily on the context of British recruitment of slaves in its Caribbean colonies and illustrates the significant contribution that these colonies made, beyond supplying slave labor, to the conquests of Guadeloupe and Martinique and of Havana in Cuba in an important theatre of the conflict.

  • av Giuseppe Finaldi
    1 996,-

    This book, part two of Giuseppe FinaldiΓÇÖs sweeping account of Italian colonialism studies its history from the turn of the 20th century to the early 1930s. The book engages with a period of huge social, political and cultural change resulting in a new dynamism on the African and expansionist front. The period saw an economic leap forward, an extension of ItaliansΓÇÖ political engagement ΓÇô through new forces such as popular socialism, social Catholicism and the ΓÇÿnewΓÇÖ nationalism ΓÇô as well as a huge surge in the number of people leaving Italy for new lives in the Americas while expansionism made its mark in Libya, the horn of Africa and elsewhere.

  • - Race, Law and Citizenship in the German Empire, 1884-1914
    av Dominik Nagl
    1 790,-

  • - Convergence and Competition
     
    2 090,-

    This volume compares and contrasts British and German colonialist discourses from a variety of angles: philosophical, political, social, economic, legal, and discourse-linguistic. The title will prove invaluable for students and researchers working on British colonial history, German colonial history and postcolonial studies.

  • av Robert Ivermee
    490 - 1 846,-

    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 changing nature of secularism across space and time.

  • av Ben Maddison
    780 - 2 170,-

    Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a few celebrated explorers. Maddison presents a study of Antarctic exploration, telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, he argues that Antarctic exploration can be seen as an offshoot of European colonialism.

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