Résultats pour "Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies"

Distant Lands and Diverse Cultures

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 45
• Utilizing contemporary accounts of India, China, Siam and the Levant, this study provides rich detail about these exotic lands and explores the priori... Savoir plus

No Country for a Gentleman

William M Welch

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 25
• Welch discusses the special difficulties of ruling Egypt, such as the anomalous administration, foreign interference, and national dissent, as well as... Savoir plus

The Racial Dimension of American Overseas Colonial Policy

Hazel McFerson

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 33
• Beginning in 1898, the United States won overseas colonies as the spoils of the Spanish-American War: Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba. Guam and... Savoir plus

Journalists for Empire

James D Startt

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
• Between 1903 and 1913, an extensive public debate played itself out in the British press involving the self-governing dominions of the Empire. The deb... Savoir plus

Science and Social Science Research in British India, 1780-1880

Edward W Ellsworth

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
• This important volume by Edward W. Ellsworth examines the conflicting interests, programs, and goals which influenced the emergence of Anglo-Indian so... Savoir plus

Western Women in Colonial Africa.

Caroline Oliver, Sarah Oliver

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 12
• Inspired by her own contact with Africa, Caroline Oliver has written biographies of five intrepid women who traveled through the interior of Africa du... Savoir plus

The Emergence of Modern South Africa

David Yudelman

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
• The Emergence of Modern South Africa views economic conflict, specifically the interaction of the state, big business, and labor, as the central issue... Savoir plus

Britain's Sterling Colonial Policy and Decolonization, 1939-1958

Allister Hinds

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 42
• Arguing that Britain's sterling policy had a significant impact on its colonial economic policy, this book focuses on the connection between Britain's... Savoir plus

War, Cooperation, and Conflict

Fitzroy Baptiste

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
• This carefully researched study is the first to chronicle the history of Allied involvement in the defense of British, French, and Dutch possessions i... Savoir plus

Meeting Technology's Advance

James Zheng Gao

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 34
• In this first comparative study of Chinese and Zimbabwean railway experiences, Gao examines the role played by technological progress in generating si... Savoir plus

The Bringing of Wonder

Michael Morris

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 36
• In the relations between colonial European traders and the Indians of the southern backcountry, trade was a powerful manipulative tool used by both si... Savoir plus

Moral Imperium

Ronald Kent Richardson, Paul Worth

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
• During the past decade, the problem of British slave emancipation has generated considerable historiographical debate. Yet, until now, this debate has... Savoir plus

The Betrothed of Death

Jose E Alvarez, Jos? E Alvarez

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 40
• Following her defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain shifted her colonial focus to her Protectorate in northern Morocco. When Spanish consc... Savoir plus

Deadly Force, Colonialism, and the Rule of Law

Joan R Mars

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 46
• In post-colonial countries such as Guyana, the legacy of colonialism and its influence on policing and society is of crucial significance in developin... Savoir plus

Germans in the Tropics

Arthur Knoll

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
• The book seeks to add to both German and colonial history, detailing the effects of colonization on both the rulers and the ruled. The nine essays cov... Savoir plus

The Selling of the Empire

T August

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 19
• This innovative volume explores the essential similarity of imperialist ideologies in Britain and France from 1890 to 1940. These nations attempted to... Savoir plus

Double Impact

G. Wesley Johnson

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
• This collection of original historical essays sheds new light on the French colonial experience and the African reaction to it and breaks new ground b... Savoir plus

The Man on the Spot

Roger D Long

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 31
• Focusing on the role of the individual in the periphery of the Empire, this volume illuminates John Galbraith's thesis that events on the periphery of... Savoir plus

Pakistan

Alan Gledhill

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 8
• The author attempts to trace from their sources the more important principles and institutions which make up the laws and constitution of Pakistan. Savoir plus

Policing Islam

Harold Tollefson

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 38
• The role of the police force was central in the politics and social life of Egypt during the British occupation between 1882 and 1914. Egyptians initi... Savoir plus

Railway Imperialism

Ronald E Robinson

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies
• This contributed volume explores the relationship between imperialism, railways, and informal empire. Contributors account for the origins of main lin... Savoir plus

Mixed Blessing

Hazel McFerson

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 41
• Invidious distinctions on the basis of race and overt racism were central features in American colonial policy in the Philippines from 1898 to 1947, a... Savoir plus

Between Black and White

Gad Heuman

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 5
• 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 Cari... Savoir plus

Imperial Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization

W Travis Hanes, William Travis Hanes

• Livre relié | Anglais | Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies | n° 30
• 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 Wor... Savoir plus