Art in the Service of Colonialism

Hamid Irbouh

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History | nr. 2
• "Art in the Service of Colonialism" throws new light on how nothing in the Moroccan French Protectorate (1912-1956) escaped the imprints of metropolit... Lees meer

Symbol of Authority

Anthony Kirk-Greene

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• The district officer - the D.O. - was the pivot of the British Colonial Administration throughout the British Empire, as was his counterpart in India ... Lees meer

Artisans, Sufis, Shrines

Hussain Ahmad Khan

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• In nineteenth-century Punjab, a cultural tug-of-war ensued as both Sufi mystics and British officials aimed to engage the local artisans as a means of... Lees meer

Without Glory in Arabia

Peter Hinchcliffe, John T Ducker, Maria Holt

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• 'So we left without glory but without disaster ' Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, the last High Commissioner of the Federation of South Arabia In 1967, 139 yea... Lees meer

Protectorate Cyprus

Gail Dallas Hook

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• A strategic outpost in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus was vital to British imperial ambitions in the East as the Ottoman Empire grew increasingly f... Lees meer

Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion

Ilyse R Morgenstein Fuerst

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• While jihad has been the subject of countless studies in the wake of recent terrorist attacks, scholarship on the topic has so far paid little attenti... Lees meer

Modern Medicine in the Holy Land

Yaron Perry, Efraim Lev

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History | nr. 8
• "Modern Medicine in the Holy Land" provides an in-depth assessment of the pioneering work of British Hospitals in Palestine in the nineteenth century,... Lees meer

An Imperial Crisis in British India

Caroline Keen

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• In 1891 a major anti-British revolt erupted in the northeast Indian princely state of Manipur after a dangerously miscalculated attempt by the Governm... Lees meer

Power and Passion in Egypt

Archie Hunter

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Colonial History | nr. 7
• When Sir Eldon Gorst succeeded Lord Cromer as Agent and Consul-General in Cairo in 1907, Britain effectively ruled Egypt and the Sudan. The period Gor... Lees meer

Imperial Violence and the Path to Independence

Shereen Ilahi

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• In the aftermath of World War I, the British Empire was hit by two different crises on opposite sides of the world--the Jallianwala Bagh, or Amritsar,... Lees meer

Echoes of Empire

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics? How have former empire-builders sought vindication or atonement, and formerly coloniz... Lees meer

Governing Hong Kong

Steve Tsang

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• Hong Kong is at the heart of modern China's position as a regional - and potential world - superpower. In this important and original history of the r... Lees meer

The Portuguese in the East

Shihan De Silva Jayasuriya

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in the late fifteenth century opened up new economic and cultural horizons for the Portuguese. Undertaken at the heigh... Lees meer

Monuments, Power and Poverty in India

A S Bhalla

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• Much has been written about the Imperial architecture of the Indian subcontinent, but this is the first book to dig deeply into the extent of imperial... Lees meer

Art in the Service of Colonialism

Hamid Irbouh

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• In the Moroccan French Protectorate (1912-1956), the French established vocational and fine art schools, imposed modern systems of industrial producti... Lees meer

Club Government

Seth Alexander Thevoz

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• The book phenomenon of `Club Government' in the mid-nineteenth century, when many of the functions of government were alleged to have taken place behi... Lees meer

Attempting to Bring the Gospel Home

Michael Marten

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History | nr. 3
• The first comprehensive study of Scottish religious imperialism in the Middle East highly topical in the light of parallels with American religious im... Lees meer

Writing, Travel and Empire

Peter Hulme, Russell McDougall

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History | nr. 10
• The British Empire drew on the talents of many remarkable figures, whose lives reveal a wonderfully rich involvement with the crucial issues of the pe... Lees meer

Race and Power in British India

Valerie Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• By the nineteenth century the British had ruled India for over a hundred years, and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858, w... Lees meer

Princely India and the British

Caroline Keen

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Colonial History
• In the latter part of the nineteenth century, the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from ... Lees meer