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By: Nicola Ginsburgh

ISBN: 9781526143877
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in the settler colonial context. -- .


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By: Nicola Ginsburgh

ISBN: 9781526167095
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in the settler colonial context.


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By: Daniel Spence

ISBN: 9780719091773
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Through a transnational and comparative analysis of official and subaltern sources, explores the indigenous naval forces that emerged in a period of British imperial prestige and international tension.


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By: Richard Scully

ISBN: 9781526142948
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Comic empires is an innovative collection of new scholarly research, exploring the relationship between imperialism and cartoons, caricature, and comic art. -- .


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By: Richard Scully

ISBN: 9781526163677
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Comic empires is an innovative collection of new scholarly research, exploring the relationship between imperialism and cartoons, caricature, and comic art. -- .


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By: Michael D. Leigh

ISBN: 9780719085369
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An exploration of Methodist missionaries working in Upper Burma between 1887 and 1966 -- .


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By: Helen Cowie

ISBN: 9780719084935
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish Empire in the years, 1750-1850, taking a transatlantic approach to the history of science. -- .


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By: Harrison Akins

ISBN: 9781526190840
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947.


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By: Harrison Akins

ISBN: 9781526167859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947.


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By: Stephanie Barczewski

ISBN: 9781526106643
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries -- .


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By: Stephanie Barczewski

ISBN: 9780719096228
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries -- .


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By: Florence Mok

ISBN: 9781526182333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is the first comprehensive archive-based study to explore governance, surveillance, political culture and public policymaking in colonial Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997, using newly released archival documents in London and Hong Kong. Using historical discipline, it provides a thorough understanding of state-society relations in Hong Kong.


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By: Florence Mok

ISBN: 9781526158192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is the first comprehensive archive-based study to explore governance, surveillance, political culture and public policymaking in colonial Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997, using newly released archival documents in London and Hong Kong. Using historical discipline, it provides a thorough understanding of state-society relations in Hong Kong.


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By: Hao Gao

ISBN: 9781526133427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from 1792 to 1840. -- .


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By: Robert Aldrich

ISBN: 9781784993153
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Explores the multiple connections between European monarchs and their overseas colonies


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By: Dana Arnold

ISBN: 9780719067693
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The need for a single public culture - the creation of an authentic identity - is fundamental to our understanding of nationalism and nationhood. This book examines British imperial, colonial and postcolonial national identities within their political and social contexts.


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By: Gordon Pirie

ISBN: 9780719086823
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Gathers new evidence to distil the age, class, gender and occupational profiles of people who used private and commercial aircraft and looks at how flying in the period was and is romanticised and caricatured.


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By: Ruth Craggs

ISBN: 9780719096525
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Draws on a wide range of cultural materials in order to challenge Eurocentric readings of decolonisation.


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By: Ruth Craggs

ISBN: 9781526134301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Draws on a wide range of cultural materials in order to challenge Eurocentric readings of decolonisation. -- .


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By: Matthew Heaton

ISBN: 9781526162601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book recounts the effects of British colonial rule and decolonization on the transformation of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) from Nigeria over the course of the twentieth century. In so doing, it incorporates Nigeria into broader historical understanding of one of the most important transnational processes in the world.


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By: Joseph Hodge

ISBN: 9780719091803
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule -- .


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By: Joseph Hodge

ISBN: 9781526106766
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule -- .


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By: Henrietta Lidchi

ISBN: 9781526139207
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and appropriation of objects during British colonial warfare. The authors offer a nuanced view of how the amassing of objects was governed and understood within military culture.


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By: Henrietta Lidchi

ISBN: 9781526163622
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and appropriation of objects during British colonial warfare.

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