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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: Stephen Snelders

ISBN: 9781526112996
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. -- .


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By: Alfred A. Cave

ISBN: 9780313393358
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony's first century explains why a harmonious coexistence proved impossible.

Britain's first successful settlements in America occurred over 400 years ago.


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By: Maya Jasanoff

ISBN: 9780007180103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Libertys Exiles is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historians most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience. Niall Ferguson

Libertys Exiles was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize.


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By: Sara C. Motta

ISBN: 9781786608109
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Written through story, prose, poetry, analysis and offering case-studies, methodologies, practices and generative questions the book expresses and contributes to the (co) creation of a new language of liberation.


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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: Edward Paice

ISBN: 9780006530732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A biography of Ewart Grogan, 'the founding father of Kenya'.


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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: 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: Murray Noonan

ISBN: 9780755600915
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: David Hardiman

ISBN: 9780719095399
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. -- .


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By: Emily Manktelow

ISBN: 9780719096709
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Presents an innovative argument for the significance of missionaries' familial relations in the philosophy, conduct and outcomes of mission work during the nineteenth century. -- .


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By: Sarah Carter

ISBN: 9781784991401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Mistress of everything examines how indigenous people across Britain's settler colonies engaged with Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments, incorporated her into their political repertoires, and implicated her as they sought redress for the effects of imperial expansion during her long reign. -- .


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By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691623641
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In occupied Egypt, British governmental programs were closely related to England's needs as an imperial power since Egypt was occupied because of its strategic position along the route to India. British presence there, however, inevitably led to modernization during the 32 years of British rule. During the first period the British were preoccupied


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By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691650289
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Robert Aldrich

ISBN: 9781526171733
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies, and the monarchies of Asia, in the late colonial period, during the process of decolonisation, and in its aftermath.


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By: Robert Aldrich

ISBN: 9781526142696
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies, and the monarchies of Asia, in the late colonial period, during the process of decolonisation, and in its aftermath. -- .


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By: James Whidden

ISBN: 9780755650248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Shawna Herzog

ISBN: 9781350202481
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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