Kolonialism & imperialism

How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of …

One of Smithsonian Magazine's Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to the United States empire became seditious threats to national security and exposes …

This expansive history of Black political thought shows us the origins—and the echoes—of anticolonial liberation on a global scale.On the Scale of the World examines the …

A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world  “An epic work of breathtaking scope and moral …

Empires rise and fall; they do not last. In the eyes of many, the US exerts the strongest destabilizing influence on world events, and thus presents the greatest threat to world …

A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern period  “A tour de force offering the reader the best study …

How did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in England itself? After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated …

At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. …

Indians, too, could play the land game for both personal and political benefit According to his kin, John Wompas was “no sachem,” although he claimed that status to achieve his …

In 1943, ritual murder was committed in a large African kingdom in the south of Ghana, then a colony of Great Britain. Palace officials and close kin of a recently deceased king …