Imperial & Colonial History Books

New and Published Books

1. The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

   Studies in the History of Turkey, thirteenth–fifteenth Centuries

   By Paul Wittek

   Edited by Colin Heywood

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   Paul Wittek’s The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Maritime Slavery

   Edited by Philip Morgan

   Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage – the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic – readily comes to mind. This so-called ‘middle leg’ – from Africa to the Americas – of a supposed trading triangle linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Nazism in Syria and Lebanon

   The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945

   By Götz Nordbruch

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime. For many contemporary observers in Beirut and Damascus, Nazism not only posed a risk to Europe, but threatened to...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Empires and Boundaries

   Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings

   Edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné, Susanne Gehrmann

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Churchill, Roosevelt and India

   Propaganda During World War II

   By Auriol Weigold

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   As the United States was drawn into the Second World War, pressure grew from a number of nations for India’s independence. Prime Minister Churchill, in Britain's name, engaged deliberately in propaganda in the United States to persuade the American public and, through it, President Roosevelt that...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Singapore in the Global System

   Relationship, Structure and Change

   By Peter Preston

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   This book tracks the phases of Singapore’s economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country’s future....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Communist Indochina

   By R. B. Smith

   Edited by Beryl Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. It explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Pre-Communist Indochina

   By R.B. Smith

   Edited by Beryl Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book explores the history of pre-communist Indochina, from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. It examines the early state of Vietnam, comparing and contrasting its political and social systems, with both those of neighbouring states such as Thailand and those prevalent at the time in Europe....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf

   The Abu Musa and Tunbs in Strategic Context

   By Kourosh Ahmadi

   Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

   The position of the Persian Gulf as the main highway between East and West has long given this region special significance both within the Middle East and in global affairs more generally. This book examines the history of international relations in the Gulf since the 1820s as great powers such as...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Decolonization in South Asia

    Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal, 1947–52

    By Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

    Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

    This book explores the meanings and complexities of India’s experience of transition from colonial to the post-colonial period. It focuses on the first five years – from independence on 15th August 1947 to the first general election in January 1952 – in the politics of West Bengal, the new Indian...

    Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge