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Double Impact
This collection of original historical essays sheds new light on the French colonial experience and the African reaction to it and breaks new ground by looking at both sides of the …
Meeting Technology's Advance
In this first comparative study of Chinese and Zimbabwean railway experiences, Gao examines the role played by technological progress in generating significant social change. His …
Between Black and White
The complex story of the rise and fall of the colored class in Jamaican politics is examined in this important contribution to the history of the Caribbean.
The Politics of Dependency
The Second British Empire
The Bringing of Wonder
In the relations between colonial European traders and the Indians of the southern backcountry, trade was a powerful manipulative tool used by both sides in their attempts to …
No Country For A Gentleman
Welch discusses the special difficulties of ruling Egypt, such as the anomalous administration, foreign interference, and national dissent, as well as the men who ruled and their …
Black and White in Southern Zambia
Imperial Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization
This book provides a detailed examination of the role played by the Sudan Political Service in Anglo-Egyptian relations from the end of the Second World War, when Egypt formally …
Western Women in Colonial Africa
Inspired by her own contact with Africa, Caroline Oliver has written biographies of five intrepid women who traveled through the interior of Africa during colonial times. Two were …
Indispensable Traitors
In settler societies, some conflicts have roots that are both ethnic and colonial in nature. These are conflicts between an indigenous ethnic group and groups and between an ethnic …
Railway Imperialism
This contributed volume explores the relationship between imperialism, railways, and informal empire. Contributors account for the origins of main lines in several independent and …