Now in paperback. A critical examination of nineteenth century British society and culture arguing that the British public knew little about their empire and only a small number of people were committed to it. The author discusses the implications of these attitudes for Britain and the relationship between culture and imperialism. Index, bib, notes, b/w illus, xxii, 503pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

An annotated checklist of personal memoirs of the British Colonial Service and related studies for scholars and teachers. This bibliography covers the Colonial Service in the twentieth century concentrating on memoirs, biographies and autobiographies and each entry includes a full bibliographic details with a short annotation. 129pp, UK. INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES.

Challenges the claim that the British Empire was a kinder, gentler empire and suggests that the description of 'Rogue State' is more fitting. How many people today know about Britain's deep involvement in the opium drug trade in China, or that Tony Blair's hero Gladstone devoted his maiden parliamentary speech to defending his family's slave plantation in Jamaica? Index, notes, 286pp, UK. BOOKMARKS.

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A history of the British Empire describing the diversity of its colonies, the contradictions of the colonial project and attempts to shape the world to its needs. Illustrated with b/w images. Index, maps, 254pp, UK. TEMPUS PUBLISHING, 0752429582

A history of Britain's early colonial warfare. Includes chapters on the Jamaican rebellion of 1865, the Ashanti War of the Golden Stool, the 1896 Zanzibar war, the Benin massacre of 1897, the storming of Madagascar and the Hut Tax War in Sierra Leone. Illustrated with b/w images. Index, bib, sources, ix, 756pp, UK. SUTTON PUBLISHING, 0750931620

An introduction to the key issues and debates surrounding histories of the colonial period, from the birth of British Imperialism to the formation of the Commonwealth. Index, bib, notes, maps, xv, 284pp, UK. PALGRAVE/MACMILLAN, 0333947266

A survey of the historical background to cannabis legislation, revealing imperial Britain's role in the cannabis trade and showing how the politics of Empire lead to prohibition. BNS, 252pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

An academic study of incarceration in colonial and post-colonial societies. The area of study ranges from slave traders to torture in French Algeria to Chinese-American women. Notes, bib, index, 264pp, UK. CONTINUUM.

Explores the formation, structure and maintenance of boundaries and frontiers in settler colonies. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, historians, archaeologists and post-colonial theorists, the authors explore the importance of cross-cultural interactions in the settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and America. BNS, 256pp, UK. MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS, 0719058597

An investigation of the connections between homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s until the era of decolonisation. Looking at historical figures such as Cecil Rhodes and E.M. Forster, each case study illuminates particular colonial situation and its wider implications for cultural and political life. BNS, 464pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

An exhaustive reference work collecting over 600 essays, focusing on the politics, economy, culture and society of both the colonisers and colonised. The contributors analyse the origins of imperialism, the many forms it took and its impact worldwide. Also analysed is the legacy of colonialism and the gross inequalities of global wealth and power that divides the former conquerors and the people they conquered. Three volume set. BNS, 1208pp, UK. ABC CLIO, 1576073351

The author's classic work on colonialism first published in French in 1964. A passionate critique of French policies in Algeria in the 50s and 60s, and an argument for the necessity of decolonisation that includes a call to use violence to achieve this goal. Also includes Sartre's celebrated preface to Fanon's Wretched of the Earth. Notes, xxiv, 200pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

A non Eurocentric approach to the study of colonialism from its origins to the present. Index, bib, notes, map, xiii, 402pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE, 0415140080

Assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies across the globe. Deals with oral and written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations, as well as historical and cultural accounts. B/w ill, notes, bib, index, xi, 237pp, UK. CONTINUUM, 0826449190

An examination of the relationship between colonial experience and criminology and how the history of colonialism has shaped the definition of crime and justice systems, not only in former colonies but also in colonialist countries. Index, bib, xiv, 281pp, UK. PLUTO PRESS, 0745318851

Germany's overseas colonial empire was relatively short-lived, lasting from 1884 to 1918. During this period, dramatically different policies were enacted in the colonies: in Southwest Africa, German troops carried out a brutal slaughter of the Herero people; in Samoa, authorities pursued a paternalistic defence of native culture; in Qingdao, China, policy veered between harsh racism and cultural exchange. Why did the same colonizing power act in such differing ways? This book tackles this question through a cross-cultural analysis of German colonialism, leading to a new conceptualisation of the colonial state and postcolonial theory. Steinmetz uncovers the roots of colonial behaviour in precolonial European ethnographies, where the Hereros were portrayed as cruel and inhuman, the Samoans were idealized as noble savages, and depictions of Chinese culture were mixed. Index, bib, col plates, b/w illus, maps, 640pp, USA. CHICAGO U P.

A survey of the rise and decline of European overseas empires, looking at how and why empires were formed, persisted and lost. The author also sheds new light on the postcolonial climate and the legacies of empire. Index, bib, apps, notes, viii, 524pp, USA. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0300093144

Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. The authors contend that the new political order of globalisation should be seen in line with our historical understanding of Empire as a universal order that accepts no boundaries or limits. Notes, index. xvii, 478pp. USA. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0674006712

The notion of Empire has in recent years taken on a renewed importance in world politics. US foreign policy has in particular been associated with this concept by both critics and supporters of American global power. But what exactly is an empire? What distinguishes different forms of empire? Is this category still useful in a post-colonial world? Drawing on interdisciplinary debates surrounding this disputed notion, this study offers a survey of different imperial experiences across time and place. Successive chapters consider the imperial organisation of political space, the role of markets in sustaining imperial rule and the contradictory expressions of imperial culture. 196pp, UK. POLITY PRESS.

Very Short Introductions are a series of books written by experts in their field, offering an accessible introduction to a new subject. OXFORD UNIV PRESS.

Explores the political co operations and textual connections which linked anti colonial, nationalist, and modernist groups and individuals in the British empire between 1890 and 1920. It develops the key motifs of lateral interaction and colonial interdiscursivity to build a picture of the imperial world as an intricate network of surprising contacts and margin to margin interrelationships, and of modernism as a far more constellated cultural phenomenon than previously understood. Individual case studies consider Irish support for the Boers in 1899 1902 and Sol Plaatje's conflicted South African nationalism. Index, bib, 239pp, UK. OXFORD UNIV PRESS.

Examines the role of empire in shaping ideas about Britishness after 1945 and assesses the economic consequences of the end of Empire. BNS, 250pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: it locked disparate human societies together over a wider area than any previous imperial expansion; it underpinned the repopulation of the Americas and Australasia; it was the precursor of globalization as we now understand it. Imperialism was inseparable from the history of global environmental change. Metro-politan countries sought raw materials of all kinds; they established sugar plantations that transformed island ecologies; colonial cities, many of which became great conurbations, fundamentally changed relationships between people and nature. Environmental history deals with the reciprocal interaction between people and other elements and this book illustrates the diverse environmental themes in the history of empire. Initially concentrating on the material factors that shaped empire and environmental change, it discusses how British consumers and manufacturers sucked in resources that were gathered, hunted, fished, mined, and farmed. Yet it is also clear that British settler and colonial states sought to regulate the use of natural resources as well as commodify them. Conservation aimed to preserve resources by exclusion, as in wildlife parks and forests, and to guarantee efficient use of soil and water. Exploring these linked themes of exploitation and conservation, this study concludes with a focus on political reassertions by colonised peoples over natural resources. 320pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Twenty-one articles that explore the nature and impact of colonial withdrawal, ranging across all the European colonial powers. Selected contents: A comparative study of French and British decolonization, Tony Smith; Imperial hangovers: Belgium the economics of decolonisation, Jean-Philippe Peemans; Fanon and Cabral: a contrast in theories of revolution for Africa, Robert Blackley; British decolonisation since 1945: a pattern or a puzzle?, John Darwin; 'Our strike': equality, anticolonial politics and the 1947-48 railway strike in French West Africa, Frederick Cooper; Planned decolonization and its failure in British Africa, John Flint; Africa and the Labour government, 194551, Ronald Hyam; Macmillan and the wind of change in Africa, 195760, Ritchie Ovendale; Decolonisation, the colonial state and chieftaincy in the Gold Coast, Richard C. Crook; School wars: church, state and the death of the Congo, Patrick M. Boyle; People's war, state formation and revolution in Africa: a comparative analysis of Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Angola, Patrick Chabal; American attitudes toward decolonization in Africa, Steven Metz; Rethinking the cold war and decolonization: the grand strategy of the Algerian war for independence, Matthew Connelly; Women and Returnees: The Mau Mau rebellion, Kikuyu women and social change, Cora Ann Presley; Decolonization the ultimate diaspora, Anthony Kirk-Greene. 547pp, UK. ASHGATE.

Is there only one model for empire, based on European empires? How might the critique of European empires serve to understand imperial forms elsewhere? This collection moves beyond the Eurocentric slant of colonial studies to compare European and non-European empires with socialist states and empire beyond colonialism. Index, bib, 429pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

'A profoundly scholarly work about British imperialism which is so infused with a sense of the comic, the touching and the absurd that it is also splendid entertainment.' Jan Morris, BBC History. Notes, app, index, xxiv, 264pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS.

A comparative study of the relationship between the colonising Europeans and the indigenous leadership which they subverted. The author examines how the Europeans were able to rule for so long with so few resources and available capital from the seventeenth century to the twentieth and assesses the legacy of the colonial hierarchies. BNS, 10 maps, 330pp, UK. OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 0199257817

A chronological account and analysis of the history of global Empire from 1700 to the 1950s. The author also addresses current dilemmas generated by the legacy of Empire, and offers an overview of American expansionism. Includes a guide to further reading. Index, refs, gloss, maps, 165pp, UK. PEARSON EDUCATION.

Postcolonial states and metropolitan societies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism. Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reasons, these settler communities had in common their shaping of landholding, laws, and race relations in colonies throughout the world. By looking at the detail of settlements, from European colonial projects in Africa and expansionist efforts by the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria, to the Germans in Poland and the historical trajectories of Israel/Palestine and South Africa, and analysing the dynamics set in motion by these settlers, the contributors to this volume establish points of comparison to offer a new framework for understanding the character and fate of twentieth-century empires. 320pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires, examining how landscaping functioned in an imperial mode that defined and remade the heartlands of nations as well as the contact zones and colonial peripheries in the West and East Indies. Index, bib, b/w illus, 281pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS.