Imperial & Colonial History

This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in Afr..

This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in Afr..

Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 is the first textbook that specifically addresses the history of this empire on this continent. Written by two experts in the field, one on British imperial history and one on African history, the book offers a uniquely balanced look at both the ..

Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 is the first textbook that specifically addresses the history of this empire on this continent. Written by two experts in the field, one on British imperial history and one on African history, the book offers a uniquely balanced look at both the ..

This book examines the histories of the local militias who joined the counter-insurgency campaigns of the European powers after 1945 to fight against nationalists. Their histories reveal the close connections between the process of decolonization and the Cold War. It was originally published as a sp..

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 the eighteenth century put the Brewer thesis under the spotlight...

Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts explores the ways in which childhood was imagined and the experiences of the young were shaped under colonialism in Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and India. The essays also explore the ways in which the interplay of Atlantic and Global dynamics influenced y..

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 examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American, W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans, Marcus Garvey and George Padmore, and the Francophone West Africans, Kojo Tovalou-Houénou, Lamine Senghor, and Léopold Sédar Senghor, developed during th..

This book examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American, W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans, Marcus Garvey and George Padmore, and the Francophone West Africans, Kojo Tovalou-Houénou, Lamine Senghor, and Léopold Sédar Senghor, developed during th..

Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume I..

Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume II..