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By: Catharine Coleborne

ISBN: 9780719087240
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration. -- .


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By: Kate O'Malley

ISBN: 9780719077517
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is offers a fresh perspective on the history of the end of Empire. Using the Irish and Indian independence movements as its focus, it details how each countrys nationalist agitators engaged with each other and exchanged ideas.


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By: Kate O'Malley

ISBN: 9780719081712
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is offers a fresh perspective on the history of the end of Empire. Using the Irish and Indian independence movements as its focus, it details how each country's nationalist agitators engaged with each other and exchanged ideas. -- .


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By: Finola O'Kane

ISBN: 9781526150998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean interrogates the complex relationship between two island archipelagos at the peak of the slave economy. Employing a broad range of islands, sources, sites, and methods creates a transnational, trans-imperial and interdisciplinary history of Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean.


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By: Finola O'Kane

ISBN: 9781526182296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean interrogates the complex relationship between two island archipelagos at the peak of the slave economy. Employing a broad range of islands, sources, sites, and methods creates a transnational, trans-imperial and interdisciplinary history of Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean.


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By: Florence D'Souza

ISBN: 9781526148070
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Studies Tod's relationships with particular Rajput leaders and with the Rajputs as a group in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and social customs to British and European readers. -- .


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By: Florence D'Souza

ISBN: 9780719090806
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Studies Tod's relationships with particular Rajput leaders and with the Rajputs as a group in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and social customs to British and European readers. -- .


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By: Neville Kirk

ISBN: 9780719080791
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A trans-national study of the neglected influences of nation, empire and race upon the development and electoral fortunes of the Labour Party in Britain and the Australian Labor Party from their formative years of the 1900s to the elections of 2010. It engages with traditional explanations of Labour politics based largely upon class.


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By: Emily Whewell

ISBN: 9781526140029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority. -- .


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By: Emily Whewell

ISBN: 9781526182319
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority.


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By: Diane Kirkby

ISBN: 9780719081958
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Explores issues including the judicial construction of racial categories, the gendered definitions of nation-states, the historical construction of citizenship, sovereignty and land rights, the limits to legality and the charting of empire, constructions of madness among colonised people, reforming property rights of married women.


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By: Tim Allender

ISBN: 9780719085796
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Provides a unique longitudinal study of women in colonial India, examining their life experiences and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over more than a century of British rule. -- .


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By: Tim Allender

ISBN: 9781526134318
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Provides a unique longitudinal study of women in colonial India, examining their life experiences and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over more than a century of British rule. -- .


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By: Justin Livingstone

ISBN: 9780719095320
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Explores how Livingstone has been represented in diverse ways and put to work in a variety of socio-political contexts. -- .


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By: Justin Livingstone

ISBN: 9781526106797
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Explores how Livingstone has been represented in diverse ways and put to work in a variety of socio-political contexts. -- .


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By: Will Jackson

ISBN: 9780719088896
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenyas white insane to focus not on the great white hunters and heroic pioneer farmers but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around deviance, transgression and social control.


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By: Will Jackson

ISBN: 9781526106551
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenyas white insane to focus not on the great white hunters and heroic pioneer farmers but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around deviance, transgression and social control.


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By: Jason Peacey

ISBN: 9780719088568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is based on the latest research, and involves stimulating new ideas from some of the most important scholars working in the field of imperial history. It ranges across politics, religion, economy, law and geography in order to offer challenging perspectives on the nature and origins of the first British empire. -- .


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By: Mary A. Procida

ISBN: 9780719091339
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Situates women at the centre of the practices and policies of British imperialism -- .


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By: Heather Streets

ISBN: 9780719069635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides an exploration of how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas became linked as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourses of 'martial races.' -- .


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By: Claire Lowrie

ISBN: 9780719095337
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Illustrates the centrality of domestic politics to colonial rule and the ways in which mastery over servants was a key expression of colonial power


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By: Pratik Chakrabarti

ISBN: 9780719083129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare. -- .


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By: Pratik Chakrabarti

ISBN: 9780719096549
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare. -- .


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By: Markku Hokkanen

ISBN: 9781784991463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with particular focus on Malawi, the British Empire and Southern Africa. It argues that mobility of people, ideas and materials was crucial within the dynamic, intertwined and networked medical culture of colonial Malawi. -- .

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