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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Télécharger le livre :  Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity

This book examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of individual selfhood, and how the writing of autobiography, fused with the genre of the travelogue, played a key role in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-01-18
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Decolonizing International Health

This book offers a history of international public health spanning the colonial and post-colonial eras. The volume focuses on India and the transnational networks connecting developments in India with Southeast Asia, and the wider world and contributes to debates on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-10-10
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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