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Serie: Studies in imperialism
PaperbackEngels9780719073298
30-6-2014
This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late nineteenth-century and considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, the position of newly-established Muslim communities in that country, and Orientalist representations of the harem. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719082146
1-6-2010
This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the early twentieth century by focussing on the heretofore understudied concept of imperial citizenship. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719065194
25-4-2007
The French empire at war draws on original research in France and Britain to investigate the history of the divided French empire - the Vichy and the Free French empires - during the Second World War. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719080791
31-8-2011
A trans-national study of the neglected influences of nation, empire and race upon the development and electoral fortunes of the Labour Party in Britain and the Australian Labor Party from their formative years of the 1900s to the elections of 2010. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719086151
1-8-2015
This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the ‘dawn of the railway age’ to the outbreak of the First World War. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719086205
30-11-2011
This unique collection of essays examines the many relationships that existed between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719086403
1-7-2012
This book explores the tensions underlying British imperialism in Cyprus, explaining how the Union Jack came to fly over the island and why after thirty-five years the British wanted it lowered. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719088568
12-6-2020
This book is based on the latest research, and involves stimulating new ideas from some of the most important scholars working in the field of imperial history. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719089213
1-4-2015
Explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719089671
1-12-2015
Examines colonial medical policy and the ways in which doctors of the Colonial Medical Service dealt with the day-to-day reality of care-giving in Imperial Africa. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719096525
1-1-2016
Draws on a wide range of cultural materials in order to challenge Eurocentric readings of decolonisation. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719096792
31-10-2014
This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719066993
1-11-2012
Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land between 1803 and 1852, challenging the received notions of convict women as a particularly oppressed and exploited group, supposedly dominated by convict men as much as by the imperial and colonial states. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719067693
1-4-2004
The need for a single public culture - the creation of an authentic identity - is fundamental to our understanding of nationalism and nationhood. This book examines British imperial, colonial and postcolonial national identities within their political and social contexts. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719079955
1-5-2011
The first book to survey, in comparative form, the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries. It provides fascinating parallel studies of France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, examining the media and the content through which events in colonial empires were broadcast into the popular domain. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719080128
28-2-2015
Details contemporary debates about the purpose of history teaching and the influence of late-Victorian and Edwardian educational culture, and goes on to examine how pedagogical developments shaped the content of early-years reading books and textbooks. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719081712
27-11-2009
This book is offers a fresh perspective on the history of the end of Empire. Using the Irish and Indian independence movements as its focus, it details how each country’s nationalist agitators engaged with each other and exchanged ideas. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719081958
1-4-2010
Explores issues including the judicial construction of racial categories, the gendered definitions of nation-states, the historical construction of citizenship, sovereignty and land rights, the limits to legality and the charting of empire, constructions of madness among colonised people, reforming property rights of married women. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719082900
31-8-2011
Oceania under steam is a lively study of empire and the Pacific in the age of steam. It connects the intimate details of shipboard life with the high politics of imperial ocean space to present a wealth of new insights into the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonialism. Meer