Imperial & Colonial History

Innovatively looking at the complex interactions between indigenous peoples and modern imperialism in Arabia and Balkans, Foundations of Modernity challenges previous analytical models that attempt to capture the complexity of human interactions during the1800-1912 period in ways that instigates the..

Innovatively looking at the complex interactions between indigenous peoples and modern imperialism in Arabia and Balkans, Foundations of Modernity challenges previous analytical models that attempt to capture the complexity of human interactions during the1800-1912 period in ways that instigates the..

How did free communities of color protect their social status and economic gains in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions? This book highlights the complications of civil rights and abolition in the late-colonial era Caribbean. This book was first published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies...

This volume offers the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary assessment of the career of the 19th century comparative philologist Friedrich Max Müller...

Originally published in 1969, Gladstone and Kruger examines British reactions to the Afrikaner nationalism. Beginning with the first Anglo-Boer war of 1880-81, it examines the formulation of policy after the British defeat at Majuba Hill...

A collection of essays exploring the issues surrounding Hong Kong's position in the move from British colony to a Chinese Special Administration Region. Among issues considered are: relations between mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong; Americanisation vs Asianisation; strategies to emigrate overse..

A collection of essays exploring the issues surrounding Hong Kong's position in the move from British colony to a Chinese Special Administration Region. Among issues considered are: relations between mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong; Americanisation vs Asianisation; strategies to emigrate overse..

Imperial Networks reveals how British colonialism of the Xhosa to the east of the nineteenth century Cape colony was informed by, and itself informed, imperial ideas and activities, in Britain and in other colonies...

This book examines the impact of railways on colonial Indian society in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century. It contributes to the wider debates on how far technology can propel social change, regardless of the political context of transmission. The author finds that the impact of railway..

This account of imperialism explores recent intellectual, theoretical and conceptual developments in imperial history, including interdisciplinary and post-colonial perspectives. Exploring the links between empire and domestic history, it looks at the interconnections and comparisons between empire ..

This account of imperialism explores recent intellectual, theoretical and conceptual developments in imperial history, including interdisciplinary and post-colonial perspectives. Exploring the links between empire and domestic history, it looks at the interconnections and comparisons between empire ..

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...