Imperial & Colonial History Books

New and Published Books

1. Germany, France, Russia and Islam (Routledge Revivals)

   By Heinrich Von Treitschke

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Heinrich Von Treitschke was a prolific German historian and political writer during the nineteenth century. In Germany, France, Russia and Islam, first published in 1915, he considers European diplomatic relations from the patriotic perspective of imperial Germany, in particular examining...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Writings on Imperialism and Internationalism (Routledge Revivals)

   By J. Hobson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   J. A. Hobson’s Imperialism: A Study, first written in 1902, was undoubtedly his most prolific work. Yet Hobson wrote frequently about the topic of imperialism over the course of his career, and a number of his articles are included in this collection, first published in 1992. Exploring areas...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Of Planting and Planning

   The making of British colonial cities, 2nd Edition

   By Robert Home

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   ‘At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.’ - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at its...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
4. Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade

   Remedying the 'Past'?

   Edited by Fernne Brennan, John Packer

   Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the ‘Past’? Addresses how reparations might be obtained for the legacy of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. This collection lends weight to the argument that liability is not extinguished on the death of the plaintiffs or perpetrators. Arguing...

   Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
5. Empire, Industry and Class

   The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940

   By Anthony Cox

   Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

   Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision, cultures of labour and class formation between two...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire

   A Study of Communal Relations in Anatolia

   By Ayse Ozil

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   Orthodox Christians, as well as other non-Muslims of the Ottoman Empire, have long been treated as insular and homogenous entities, distinctly different and separate from the rest of the Ottoman world. Despite this view prevailing in mainstream historiography, some scholars have suggested recently...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. North American Borderlands

   Edited by Brian DeLay

   Series: Rewriting Histories

   Since the early colonial period, historians have been fascinated with North America’s borderlands – places where people interacted across multiple, independent political and legal systems. Today the scholarship on these regions is more robust and innovative than ever before. North American...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka

   The Trouser Under the Cloth

   By Anoma Pieris

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
9. Frances Trollope

   Beyond “Domestic Manners”

   Edited by Tamara Wagner

   Long overshadowed by her more widely read and reprinted son Anthony, Frances Trollope is almost exclusively remembered for her travel writing and especially for the notoriously controversial Domestic Manners of the Americans. Her impressively prolific career as a writer, however, covered and...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Making of the Arab Intellectual

    Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood

    Edited by Dyala Hamzah

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    In the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s nineteenth-century reforms, as guilds waned and new professions emerged, the scholarly ‘estate’ underwent social differentiation. Some found employment in the state’s new institutions as translators, teachers and editors, whilst others resisted civil servant...

    Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge