Télécharger le livre :  Missionary Discourses of Difference

Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-29
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815

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 :  Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940

Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-04-17
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Finance, Politics, and Imperialism

Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the occasionally...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-12-15
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Engaging Colonial Knowledge

Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-11-07
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of Indian Secularism

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

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

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

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 :  Imperial Andamans

This book traverses the Indian Ocean in the period when the British held sway over the major oceanic waters of the world. In reviving the history of the Andamans as an important imperial prize, it offers a fresh perspective on the history of British colonialism,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-07-28
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Headhunting and Colonialism

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 :  Ireland and India

Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-10-22
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Asian Empire and British Knowledge

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 :  Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire

The first biography of Alfred Webb, Irish nationalist and president of the 1894 Indian National Congress.The biography explores how Webb viewed nationalism as a vehicle for global social justice. Drawing on archives in Britain, Ireland and India the author reveals how...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-08-14
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Empires of Religion

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

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

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

'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

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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Télécharger le livre :  Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture

Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orientalism in India was also an inherently complex and unstable enterprise,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-02-15
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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