Télécharger le livre :  Labour and the Decolonization Struggle in Trinidad and Tobago
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This book provides evidence that Labour in Trinidad and Tobago played a vital role in undermining British colonialism and advocating for federation and self-government. Furthermore, there is emphasis on the pioneering efforts of the Labour movement in party politics,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-18
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe's Modern Past
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Through a range of case studies from eastern and western Europe, this book breaks new ground in investigating the extent to which European peoples living within Europe were also subjected to the ideologies and practices of colonialism.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-28
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  George Padmore and Decolonization from Below
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This book argues that the rising tide of anti-colonialism after the 1930s should be considered a turning point not just in harnessing a new mood or feeling of unity, but primarily as one that viewed empire, racism, and economic degradation as part of a system that...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Vice in the Barracks
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Shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author.Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-03-26
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia
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This study investigates the connections between opium policy and imperialism in Burma. It examines what influenced the imperial regime's opium policy decisions, such as racial ideologies, the necessity of articulating a convincing rationale for British governance, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-21
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World
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This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-09-24
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Wind of Change
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Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark six-week African tour, presaged the end of the British Empire in Africa. This book, the first to focus on Macmillan's 'Wind of Change', comprises...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-06-27
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Law, Disorder and the Colonial State
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In this original study British rule in Burma is examined through quotidian acts of corruption. Saha outlines a novel way to study the colonial state as it was experienced in everyday life, revealing a complex world of state practices where legality and illegality were...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-02-04
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815
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The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Caribbean, the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-28
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of Indian Secularism
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A unique study of how a deeply religious country like India acquired the laws and policies of a secular state, highlighting the contradictory effects of British imperial policies, the complex role played by Indian Christians, and how this highly divided community shaped...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-01-26
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Settler Colonialism
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A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-10
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The US Military in Hawai'i
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An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for the benefits of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-29
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bengal Delta
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With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-20
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Headhunting and Colonialism
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An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually dependent interaction between indigenous peoples and colonial powers, and how...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-01-22
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Asian Empire and British Knowledge
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British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes inBritish understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at howBritish imperial networks in India and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-10-15
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Empires of Religion
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A sparkling new collection on religion and imperialism, covering Ireland and Britain, Australia, Canada, the Cape Colony and New Zealand, Botswana and Madagascar. Bursting with accounts of lively characters and incidents from around the British world, this collection is...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-11-13
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Domination of Strangers
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Offering a major new interpretation of the transformation of political thought and practice in colonial India, The Domination of Strangers traces the origins of modern ideas about the state and Indian civil society to the practical interaction between the British and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-10-31
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of Modern Afghanistan
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Examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain's imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century, and challenges the staid assumptions that the Afghans were little more than pawns in a larger Anglo-Russian...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-10-24
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Psychiatry and Empire
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'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. The volume advances our understanding of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-11-28
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Thuggee
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Based largely on new material, this book examines thuggee as a type of banditry, emerging in a specific socio-economic and geographic context. The British usually described the thugs as fanatic assassins and Kali-worshippers, yet Wagner argues that the history of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-07-12
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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