Imperial & Colonial History

Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's journey to Athens, Mahn offers a genealogy of British women's travel literature about Greece. Her fascinating and historically contextualized study examines first-hand accounts by archaeol..

During World War II, Churchill engaged in propaganda in the United States to persuade the American public and President Roosevelt that India should not be granted self-government at that time. Weigold unravels the reasons why this propaganda campaign was deemed necessary by Churchill, revealing the ..

The book provides an analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century...

The book provides an analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century...

Weaving together the complex strands of history and politics into one compact narrative, this book addresses the key theories of colonialism, examining them against contemporary realities.  It goes on to looks at how the different policies of colonisers have had profoundly contradictory effects on t..

Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the Nor..

The post-colonial afterlives of imperial heroes are studied in this book, from a variety of perspectives. It reveals that the reputations of some heroic figures of ‘New Imperialism’ have remained alive and often rejuvenated after decolonisation. It was first published as a special issue of the Journ..

The post-colonial afterlives of imperial heroes are examined for the first time in this book, from a variety of vantage points in both the former metropoles and the former colonies. Benefiting from a Franco-British analytical framework, Decolonising Imperial Heroes reveals that the reputations of so..

Dickens and Empire offers a reevaluation of Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with the British Empire throughout his career. Employing postcolonial theory alongside readings of Dickens's novels, journalism and personal correspondence, it explores his engagement with Britain's imperial holding..

Dickens and Empire offers a reevaluation of Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with the British Empire throughout his career. Employing postcolonial theory alongside readings of Dickens's novels, journalism and personal correspondence, it explores his engagement with Britain's imperial holding..

This volume broadens and reinvigorates the debate about the connections which link enlightenment thought and government reform in the eighteenth century. In order to complement, expand and rejuvenate the debate which has so far concentrated largely on Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, this volum..

This volume broadens and reinvigorates the debate about the connections which link enlightenment thought and government reform in the eighteenth century. In order to complement, expand and rejuvenate the debate which has so far concentrated largely on Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, this volum..