Imperial & Colonial History

General Charles Napier kept the peace in England during the Chartist protests in 1839. Then he conquered Sind. In this careful, well-written biography of Napier, Beasley shows that both the peacemaking and the warmongering came from Napier's liberal universalism, imposing on Islamic Sind the freedom..

Taking an original, thematic approach, Geoffrey Scammell demonstrates the roots and ambiguity of Europe's triumphant rise to wealth and power...

Marcus Tomalin probes the relationships between language and literature during the Romantic period by exploring how Tobias Smollett, Maria Edgeworth, William Wordsworth, John Keats, William Cobbett, William Hazlitt, and others, used and abused the French language. Informed by recent research into li..

This book is a global microhistorical examination of the Balfour Declaration, the document that set the stage for the creation of the state of Israel. The book demonstrates that the Declaration developed and contributed to a juncture in a global dialogue about the nature and definition of nation at ..

Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this book brings together a very distinguished set of contributors to explore and debate the relationship between globalization processes and world order in light of recent controversies over the return of ‘empire’...

First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This paperback reader provides the student and general reader with easy access to the major issues of the Hong Kong transition crisis. Contributors include both editors, along with a range of specialist writers...

This wide ranging book explores the Pacific Ocean’s place in human history, drawing together its long and varied physical, economic, cultural and political history, from Prehistory through to the present day...

This volume examines the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries...

This volume examines the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries...

This collection brings together articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Covering not only western European nations but also the Ottomans, Russians and Japanese, whose empires are less frequently addressed in collections, this volume shows ..

This volume reproduces key historical texts concerning `colonial knowledges’. The use of the adjective 'colonial' indicates that knowledge is shaped by power relationships, while the use of the plural form, ’knowledges’ indicates the emphasis in this collection is on an interplay between different, ..