Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners

The Imperial Colossus and the Colonial Parish Pump

By M. Tamarkin

This study of the relationship between Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners fills many gaps in his political biography. Previous biographers have rarely consulted the...

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4267-3 (Routledge)

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Reconstructing the Black Past

Blacks in Britain 1780-1830

By Dr Norma Myers, Norma Myers

This book examines the character and composition of the black population of Britain between 1780 and 1830, previous studies of which have been hampered by...

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4130-0 (Routledge)

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Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity

Edited by Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright

This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to "be a man" in societies influenced by...

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4156-0 (Routledge)

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Against the Odds

Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas

Edited by Jane G. Landers

The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class,...

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4254-3 (Routledge)

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The Expansion of England

Race, Ethnicity and Cultural History

Edited by Bill Schwarz, Bill Schwarz

The organized study of history began in Britain when the Empire was at its height. Belief in the destiny of imperial England profoundly shaped the...

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-06026-4 (Routledge)

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The Decolonization Of Africa

By Professor David Birmingham, David Birmingham

This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of the twentieth-century world history. Between 1922, when self-government was...

1995 | Paperback: 978-1-85728-540-6 (Routledge)

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Empire-building and Empire-builders

Twelve Studies

By Edward Ingram

The twelve studies of empire-building and empire-builders which make up this volume range widely across the dream world that was the British Empire from the...

1995 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-4612-1 (Routledge)

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Small Islands, Large Questions

Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean

Edited by Karen Fog Olwig

This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin...

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4225-3 (Routledge)

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Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa

Edited by William Beinart, Saul Dubow

As South Africa moves towards majority rule, and blacks begin to exercise direct political power, apartheid becomes a thing of the past - but its...

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-10357-2 (Routledge)

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The Slaves' Economy

Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

By Ira Berlin, Philip D. Morgan

Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the...

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4172-0 (Routledge)

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