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The Overseer State - Slavery, Indenture And Governance In The British Empire, 1812â€“1916

by Sascha (University Of Nottingham) Auerbach

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 In a compelling new take on the legacies of slavery, Sascha Auerbach explores the origins of the 'global labor market' in the wake of abolition. He recounts the experiences of those shipped across oceans on false pretences and forced to labor under appalling conditions, arguing that their struggles were ultimately key to the system's destruction.
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Colonial Caregivers - Ayahs And The Gendered History Of Race And Caste In British India

by Satya Shikha (The College Of New Jersey) Chakraborty

~~128,43€~~ 115,59€ 10% OFF

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 By uncovering the historical lives and voices of Indian ayahs (nannies), Colonial Caregivers challenges British sentimentalization of the colonial home. The book provides valuable insights on colonial race, caste, gender, and class relations and will appeal to anyone interested in the history of South Asia and the British Empire.
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Unsettled Subjects - Race, Mobility And Colonial Citizenship In The Australian Settler Colonies

by Amanda (University Of Adelaide) Nettelbeck

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 Lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia served as a crossroads for trade and migration across the British Empire. Amanda Nettelbeck explores how intersecting concerns around race and mobility during the nineteenth century changed the terms of British subjecthood and informed the possibilities of imagined colonial citizenship.
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Strolling Players Of Empire - Theater And Performances Of Power In The British Imperial Provinces, 1656â€“1833

by Kathleen (State University Of New York, Stony Brook) Wilson

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 A tour across the globe that tracks eighteenth-century English theatrical and social performance as vital to the establishment of the British Empire and its networks. Kathleen Wilson shows how performances put into circulation embodied social and political values and practices that had world-making intentions and effects.
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Lucky Valley - Edward Long And The History Of Racial Capitalism

by Catherine (University College London) Hall

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 Written in 1774, Edward Long's History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Catherine Hall unpicks the contradictions in Long's thinking, exposing the insidious myths and stereotypes that have allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial capitalism to live on in contemporary societies.
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The Overseer State - Slavery, Indenture And Governance In The British Empire, 1812â€“1916

by Sascha (University Of Nottingham) Auerbach

~~141,95€~~ 127,76€ 10% OFF

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 In a compelling new take on the legacies of slavery, Sascha Auerbach explores the origins of the 'global labor market' in the wake of abolition. He recounts the experiences of those shipped across oceans on false pretences and forced to labor under appalling conditions, arguing that their struggles were ultimately key to the system's destruction.
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Protecting The Empire'S Humanity - Thomas Hodgkin And British Colonial Activism 1830â€“1870

by Zoe (University Of Melbourne) Laidlaw

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 Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an interest in 'protecting' and 'civilizing' indigenous peoples, but this study of Quaker activist Thomas Hodgkin and the Aborigines' Protection Society reveals the fatal flaws in imperial 'humanitarianism'.
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Colonising Disability - Impairment And Otherness Across Britain And Its Empire, C. 1800â€“1914

by Esme (University Of Sheffield) Cleall

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 Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire. Using a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall sheds important light on identity, othering, representation and experience in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century drawing into question other key concepts such as race and 'normalcy'.
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The Company'S Sword - The East India Company And The Politics Of Militarism, 1644â€“1858

by Christina (College Of Wooster, Ohio) Welsch

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 The Company's Sword reveals how the British East India Company acquired a private army and how Indian and European soldiers shaped the Company's expansion. Tracing the institutional development of the Company's armies alongside the rebellions that challenged its growth, Christina Welsch uncovers the militarism at the heart of colonial India.
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Empire, Kinship And Violence - Family Histories, Indigenous Rights And The Making Of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842

by Elizabeth (Mcgill University, Montreal) Elbourne

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 Draws on the linked history of three families to illustrate settler-Indigenous relationships in white settler colonies from 1770-1842. Ranging from Britain and northeastern North America to Australia and southern Africa, Elbourne sheds light on the transnational development of settler colonialism and marginalization of Indigenous peoples.
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Lucky Valley - Edward Long And The History Of Racial Capitalism

by Catherine Hall

~~35,76€~~ 32,18€ 10% OFF

 Written in 1774, Edward Long's History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Catherine Hall unpicks the contradictions in Long's thinking, exposing the insidious myths and stereotypes that have allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial capitalism to live on in contemporary societies.
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Soldiers Of Uncertain Rank - The West India Regiments In British Imperial Culture

by David (University Of Warwick) Lambert

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 This book examines the place and status of the Black soldiers of the British Army's West India Regiments from the late eighteenth century until their disbandment in 1927. Analysing their depiction in word and image, it sheds important new light on debates about race, Britishness and military service.
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Lucky Valley - Edward Long And The History Of Racial Capitalism

by Catherine (University College London) Hall

~~50,02€~~ 45,02€ 10% OFF

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 Written in 1774, Edward Long's History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Catherine Hall unpicks the contradictions in Long's thinking, exposing the insidious myths and stereotypes that have allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial capitalism to live on in contemporary societies.
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Strolling Players Of Empire - Theater And Performances Of Power In The British Imperial Provinces, 1656-1833

by Kathleen Wilson

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 A tour across the globe that tracks eighteenth-century English theatrical and social performance as vital to the establishment of the British Empire and its networks. Kathleen Wilson shows how performances put into circulation embodied social and political values and practices that had world-making intentions and effects.
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Strolling Players Of Empire - Theater And Performances Of Power In The British Imperial Provinces, 1656-1833

by Kathleen Wilson

35,76€ + 10% CARD
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Company'S Sword - The East India Company And The Politics Of Militarism, 1644-1858

by Christina Welsch

39,74€ + 10% CARD
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Company'S Sword - The East India Company And The Politics Of Militarism, 1644-1858

by Christina Welsch

39,74€ + 10% CARD
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Colonising Disability - Impairment And Otherness Across Britain And Its Empire, C. 1800-1914

by Esme Cleall

39,74€ + 10% CARD
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Colonising Disability - Impairment And Otherness Across Britain And Its Empire, C. 1800-1914

by Esme Cleall

39,74€ + 10% CARD
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England Re-Oriented - How Central And South Asian Travelers Imagined The West, 1750â€“1857

by Humberto Garcia

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 Examines how Central and South Asian travelers provincialized Britishness between 1750 and 1857 and how, by appropriating metropolitan media, they recalibrated Eurasian ways of behaving and knowing to counter a chauvinistic British imperialism with Indo-Persian masculine gentility.
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Strolling Players Of Empire - Theater And Performances Of Power In The British Imperial Provinces, 1656â€“1833

by Kathleen (State University Of New York, Stony Brook) Wilson

44,61€ + 10% CARD

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 A tour across the globe that tracks eighteenth-century English theatrical and social performance as vital to the establishment of the British Empire and its networks. Kathleen Wilson shows how performances put into circulation embodied social and political values and practices that had world-making intentions and effects.
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Empire, Kinship And Violence - Family Histories, Indigenous Rights And The Making Of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842

by Elizabeth (Mcgill University, Montreal) Elbourne

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Draws on the linked history of three families to illustrate settler-Indigenous relationships in white settler colonies from 1770-1842. Ranging from Britain and northeastern North America to Australia and southern Africa, Elbourne sheds light on the transnational development of settler colonialism and marginalization of Indigenous peoples.
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The Company'S Sword - The East India Company And The Politics Of Militarism, 1644â€“1858

by Christina (College Of Wooster, Ohio) Welsch

110,85€ + 10% CARD

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 The Company's Sword reveals how the British East India Company acquired a private army and how Indian and European soldiers shaped the Company's expansion. Tracing the institutional development of the Company's armies alongside the rebellions that challenged its growth, Christina Welsch uncovers the militarism at the heart of colonial India.
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The Anticolonial Front - The African American Freedom Struggle And Global Decolonisation, 1945â€“1960

by John (Saint Mary'S University, Nova Scotia) Munro

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 A transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. This book recasts the postwar history of the United States in the light of global decolonisation and racial capitalism.
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