Télécharger le livre :  Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World

This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-17
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The 'Mere Irish' and the Colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641

This book examines the native Irish experience of conquest and colonisation in Ulster in the first decades of the seventeenth century. Central to this argument is that the Ulster plantation bears more comparisons to European expansion throughout the Atlantic than (as...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-10
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Steam Power and Sea Power

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-25
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives

This book explores the forces that impelled China, the world’s largest socialist state, to make massive changes in its domestic and international stance during the long 1970s. Fourteen distinguished scholars investigate the special, perhaps crucial part that the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-17
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Enlightened Colonialism

This book further qualifies the postcolonial thesis and shows its limits. To reach these goals, it links text analysis and political history on a global comparative scale. Focusing on imperial agents, their narratives of progress, and their political aims and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-11
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Colonialism in Greenland

This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two competing narratives of colonialism dominate in Greenland as well as Denmark. One narrative portrays the Danish colonial project...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-08
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Kenya and Britain after Independence

This book explores British post-colonial foreign policy towards Kenya from 1963 to 1980. It reveals the extent and nature of continued British government influence in Kenya after independence. It argues that this was not simply about neo-colonialism, and Kenya’s elite...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-06-30
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Decolonisations Compared

This book offers an analysis of the decolonisation process across three different regions around the world: Central America, Southeast Asia and the Caucasus. It explores how the nature of previous imperial systems shaped the nation states that were created in their...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-05-18
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Ireland in an Imperial World

Ireland in an Imperial World interrogates the myriad ways through which Irish men and women experienced, participated in, and challenged empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most importantly, they were integral players simultaneously managing and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-20
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Chinese in Colonial Burma

Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-25
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings

This book argues that the history of colonial empires has been shaped to a considerable extent by negative emotions such as anxiety, fear and embarrassment as well as by the regular occurrence of panics. The case studies it assembles examine the various ways in which...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-23
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present

This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-22
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Tributary Empires in Global History

A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. Leading interdisciplinary thinkers study tributary empires from diverse perspectives, illuminating the importance of these earlier forms of imperialism to broaden our...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-30
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850

This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-19
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ends of European Colonial Empires

This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking into account diverse chronologies of decolonization, and evaluating the specificities of each imperial configuration under...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-16
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures

The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Decolonization and the French of Algeria

In 1962, almost one million people were evacuated from Algeria. France called these citizens Repatriates to hide their French Algerian origins and to integrate them into society. This book is about Repatriation and how it became central to France's postcolonial...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Imperialism of French Decolonisaton

This book examines French motivations behind the decolonisation of Tunisia and Morocco and the intra-Western Alliance relationships. It argues that changing French policy towards decolonisation brought about the unexpectedly quick process of independence of dependencies...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy

This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940

This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940. The story of these important Indian professionals presents a rare social history of an important...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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