Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia

Catharine Coleborne

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire's Other Histories
• Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginal... Lees meer

Across Colonial Lines

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire's Other Histories
• This collection takes a multi-perspective approach in the study of empire and commodities beyond temporal and spatial boundaries. From early modern Ve... Lees meer

Imperial Gallows

Stacey Hynd

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire's Other Histories
• Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain's African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial net... Lees meer

Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific

Kate Stevens

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire's Other Histories
• Centering on cases of sexual violence, this open access book illuminates the contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal justice in... Lees meer

Early Capitalism in Colonial Missions

Christina Petterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire's Other Histories
• Drawing on unpublished archival material, this volume compares Moravian economic practice in three different mission-settings, to demonstrate how Mora... Lees meer

In the Service of Empire

Fae Dussart

• Paperback | Engels | Empire's Other Histories
• Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This book sheds new light... Lees meer

The Making and Remaking of Australasia

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire's Other Histories
• This book explores the emergence of 'Australasia' as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently under... Lees meer

Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire's Other Histories
• This collection follows the extraordinary careers of nine colonial subjects who won seats in high-level parliamentary institutions of the imperial pow... Lees meer

Extreme Violence and the 'British Way'

Michelle Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Empire's Other Histories
• Analysing three cases of British colonial violence that occurred in the latter half of the 19th century, this book argues that all three share commona... Lees meer

Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments

• Paperback | Engels | Empire's Other Histories
• This collection follows the extraordinary careers of nine colonial subjects who won seats in high-level parliamentary institutions of the imperial pow... Lees meer

Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge

Annaliese Jacobs Claydon

• Hardcover | Engels | Empire's Other Histories
• In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular In... Lees meer