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The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.

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A comparative study of the colleges established by Irish, English and Scots Catholics across Europe through the early modern period. -- .

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An invaluable guide to this classic text surveying the book's composition and central arguments, the intellectual context of its composition, and its continuing influence.

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An invaluable guide to this classic text surveying the book's composition and central arguments, the intellectual context of its composition, and its continuing influence.

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This study in brinksmanship and deception is an essential background for anyone trying to understand Russia's uneasy relations with the West.

America's relationship with Russia has become increasingly important as Washington has engaged Moscow as a critical, but often prickly, ally in the war on terror.

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Insights into the three wars which constituted the rise, stagger and fall of the British Empire.

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This book provides the essential, primary documentation needed to clarify, readjust, and, in some cases, destroy the many commonly held myths of America's colonial past.

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This work deals with capture, imprisonment and punishment in colonial and post-colonial cultures. Each chapter focuses on a specific national or regional arena, providing insight into the social, economic and cultural conditions prevalent in colonial societies.

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An unusual view of an agrarian region in the process of development by a colonial power. Taiwan (or Formosa), when it reverted to Chinese control in 1945, had been for fifty years the Japanese empire's most cherished foreign possession. Using the remarkable statistical data that the Japanese compiled to aid their administration--one of the most com

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This introductory text details the process of colonization that followed the Norman Conquest, an event which defined much of the history of England over the next 150 years, structurally altering the distribution of land and power in society.

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When European powers colonised the globe, they spread not only political power but also ideas. Yet those within colonised societies did not receive those ideas passively. They instead sought to transform or repurpose them, often in surprising or ambiguous ways. This volume illustrates a variety of examples worthy of further study. -- .

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When European powers colonised the globe, they spread not only political power but also ideas. Yet those within colonised societies did not receive those ideas passively. They instead sought to transform or repurpose them, often in surprising or ambiguous ways. This volume illustrates a variety of examples worthy of further study. -- .

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The description for this book, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, will be forthcoming.

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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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This work looks at the period of South African history before the "mineral age", and particularly the years of British rule up to the 1850s, and establishes its importance in the shaping of South African society. It argues that the roots of the 20th-century racial state lie in this period.

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This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods. Refining the theory advanced in his earlier study of China and Japan, Gilbert Rozman examines the development of Russia over several centuries with emphasis on the period immediately preceding the Industrial Revolution. He makes possible compa