Imperialisme

In the years before independence, the famous city’s heyday as a beacon for colonial Americans   “Ambitious . . . lively. . . . Beautifully reimagining a city that was a distant but …

The first serious full-length biography of former Ugandan president Idi Amin, modern Africa’s most famous dictator"A nuanced and sophisticated examination of one of the most …

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged five wars against African states …

An examination of France’s Atlantic and Indian Ocean empires through the stories of the little-known people who built it This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven …

Giuseppe Mazzini was one of the leading figures in the political history of nineteenth-century Europe. A vigorous proponent of nationalism, pre-eminent figure in the struggle for …

Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," has long been enshrined in the public imagination as an authentic American hero, but one who was colorless and rather remote. This book, …

The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism   In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took fewer official forms …

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early …

Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert …

A powerful account of how coerced migration built the British Empire In the early seventeenth century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its unwanted citizens, forcibly …