During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India.
This book examines the current ethnic and religious landscape in the western Balkans. The author argues that the molding of nations and religious groups was a very slow and incremental process that was shaped by Ottoman policies, conflict, and geopolitical meddling in this culturally diverse part of Europe.
Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946
Explores the relationship between Filipinos and the US by looking at the politics of immigration, race, and citizenship on both sides of the Philippine-American. This book reveals how American practices of racial exclusion repeatedly collided with the imperatives of US overseas expansion.
Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946
Explores the complex relationship between Filipinos and the US by looking at the politics of immigration, race, and citizenship on both sides of the Philippine-American. This book reveals how American practices of racial exclusion repeatedly collided with the imperatives of US overseas expansion.
This book examines how ideas of citizenship and subjecthood were applied in societies under British and French imperial rule in order to expand our understanding of these concepts.
Wounding, Overcoming, and the Reconstruction of Collective and Personal
In Transgenerational Colonialism, Karel James Bouse examines multigenerational trauma in relation to cycles of colonialism and decolonization. Bouse cites Northern Ireland as a current expression of these cycles and the elements that drive formerly colonized people toward the realization of self-determination.
Drawing from the life and travels of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century travel writer and critic of the Crown Colony system, Alison Blunt cogently examines the relationships among travel, gender and imperialism. Instead of studying either travel generally or women travel writers in the colonial period specifically, Blunt examines both to show how ......
Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empire
Examines how the Spanish monarchy managed an empire of unprecedented linguistic diversity, making only sporadic efforts to propagate Spanish during the sixteenth century. Challenges the assumption that the pervasiveness of the Spanish language resulted from deliberate linguistic colonization.