The Statecraft of British Imperialism

Essays in Honour of Wm Roger Louis

Edited by Robert D. King, Robin Kison

These stimulating essays reassess the meaning of British imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are written by leading authorities in the field and...

1999 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4378-6 (Routledge)

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Imperialism, Race and Resistance

Africa and Britain, 1919-1945

By Barbara Bush

Imperialism, Race and Resistance marks an important new development in the study of British and imperial interwar history.
Focusing on Britain, West Africa and South Africa,...

1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15973-9 (Routledge)

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From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World

Edited by Sylvia R. Frey, Betty Wood

This collection examines the effects of slavery and emancipation on race, class and gender in societies of the American South, the Caribbean, Latin America and...

1999 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8025-5 (Routledge)

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Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

Edited by Bill Forsythe, Joseph Melling

This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting...

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-18441-0 (Routledge)

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Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916-1919

By John Fisher

John Fisher explores the acquisitive thinking which, from the autumn of 1914, drove the Mesopotamian Expedition, and examines the political issues, international and imperial, delegated...

1999 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4429-5 (Routledge)

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Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa

Edited by Martin A. Klein, Suzanne Miers

This book brings together a series of new case studies, some by young scholars, others by widely published authors. All are based on original research...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4436-3 (Routledge)

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Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery

The Mobilisation of Public Opinion against the Slave Trade 1787-1807

By J.R. Oldfield

In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4462-2 (Routledge)

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Managing the Business of Empire

Essays in Honour of David Fieldhouse

Edited by Peter Burroughs, A.J. Stockwell

This collection of essays honours David Fieldhouse, latterly Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge and a foremost authority on the economics...

1998 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-4826-2 (Routledge)

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History of Barbados

By Sir Robert Schomburg

Sir Robert Schomburgk's history of Barbados, the island that was once Britain's foremost colonial possession in the Western Hemisphere, is a massive and all-embracing study...

1998 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-1948-4 (Routledge)

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Wars Of Imperial Conquest In Africa, 1830-1914

By Bruce Vandervort

This work investigates the social, economic and political impact of the European colonial wars in Africa on both the victors and the vanquished. It examines...

1998 | Paperback: 978-1-85728-487-4 (Routledge)

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