Servants of the Empire

Patrick O'Leary

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 92
• The first book to examine the proposition that Irish public servants in India were moved by their ‘Irishness’ to subvert or eccentrically implement po... Lees meer

Britain and Its Internal Others, 1750-1800

Dana Rabin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 150
• The rule of law, an ideology of equality and universality that justified Britain's eighteenth-century imperial claims, was the product not of abstract... Lees meer

Materials and Medicine

Pratik Chakrabarti

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 84
• Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acq... Lees meer

Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820

Douglas Hamilton

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 58
• This is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World tog... Lees meer

Banished Potentates

Robert Aldrich

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 154
• Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British... Lees meer

Rethinking Settler Colonialism

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 61
• Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Aus... Lees meer

New Zealand's Empire

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 131
• This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and expan... Lees meer

Emigrant Homecomings

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 55
• Return migration has long been a significant but neglected aspect of international population movements thorughout the centuries. Emigrant homecomings... Lees meer

Conflict, Politics and Proselytism

Michael D Leigh

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 90
• An exploration of Methodist missionaries working in Upper Burma between 1887 and 1966 -- . Lees meer

Dividing the Spoils

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 177
• At a time of heightened international interest in the colonial dimensions of museum collections, Dividing the Spoils provides new perspectives on the ... Lees meer

The Scots in South Africa

John M MacKenzie

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 68
• The description of South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its populatio... Lees meer

Conquering the Maharajas

Harrison Akins

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 211
• The position of India's princely states is a relatively under-studied aspect of the British withdrawal from India and the early years of Indian and Pa... Lees meer

Livingstone's 'Lives'

Justin Livingstone

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 112
• David Livingstone, the 'missionary-explorer', has attracted more commentary than nearly any other Victorian hero. Beginning in the years following his... Lees meer

Married to the Empire

Mary a Procida

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 44
• Available in paperback for the first time, Married to the empire situates women at the centre of the practices and policies of British imperialism. Re... Lees meer

'At Duty's Call'

W J Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 5
• The Victorian private solider was a despised figure. A working man had to be desperate indeed to take the Queen's shilling. Yet in the first sixteen m... Lees meer

Imperial spaces

Lindsay Proudfoot, Dianne Hall

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 91
• Taking two of the most important white minorities in the colonial era, the Irish and the Scots, the book explores how they imagined and performed thei... Lees meer

Conquering Nature in Spain and Its Empire, 1750-1850

Helen Cowie

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 89
• This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish Empire in the years, 1750-1850, taking a transatlantic approach to the history of scien... Lees meer

Class, Work and Whiteness

Nicola Ginsburgh

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 192
• This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals h... Lees meer

Decolonising the Hajj

Matthew Heaton

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 208
• Muslims from the region that is now Nigeria have been undertaking the Hajj for hundreds of years. But the process of completing the pilgrimage changed... Lees meer

Human Capital and Empire

Andrew MacKillop

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 12
• Human capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c. 1820. It focuses on ... Lees meer

The Cultural Construction of the British World

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 132
• What were the cultural factors that held the British world together? How was Britishness understood at home, in the Empire, and in areas of informal B... Lees meer

Science and Society in Southern Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 38
• This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific c... Lees meer

History, Heritage, and Colonialism

Kynan Gentry

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 123
• History, heritage, and colonialism explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-ninete... Lees meer

Gendered Transactions

Indrani Sen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Imperialism | nr. 145
• Gendered transactions seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions ove... Lees meer