This book explores life in Africa in the colonial era, showing how people navigated the boundaries between the spaces of the colonial world. This book was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Studies.
This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that..
General Charles Napier kept the peace in England during the Chartist protests in 1839. Then he conquered Sind. In this careful, well-written biography..
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 genea..
Resilient Cultures examines the character of the indigenous cultures of the Americas before European contact and then considers the impact of coloniza..
The study of the eighteenth century has been transformed by the writings of John Brewer. In this book Lawrence Stone and other leading historians of t..
Presents a ground-breaking exploration of the imagining of masculinities in adventure stories, considering such great hero-figures as T.E. Lawrence an..
This study integrates the recent political, economic and social history of the Caribbean Basin with its military and diplomatic past. It charts this z..
Imperial Networks reveals how British colonialism of the Xhosa to the east of the nineteenth century Cape colony was informed by, and itself informed,..
The wide array of contributions to this book draws on the rapidly growing body of post-colonial studies to critique both orthodox and heterodox econom..
Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this book brings together a very distinguished set of contributors to explore and debate th..
This book explores the impact Muscular Christianity’s ethos has had an on English-speaking modern civil society. The papers include fascinating global..