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A Pest in the Land : New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective
Suzanne Austin Alchon
Paperback - $59.95
In this timely study of all the reasons for extreme declines in native populations in the New World after colonization by Europeans, the author questions prevalent theories that exposure to Old World diseases was the sole cause of the devastation.
The Globe Encompassed : The Age of European Discovery, 1500-1700
Glenn J. Ames
Paperback - $58.95
For undergraduate courses in Western Civilization, European History, World History, as well as upper-level courses in European Expansion and the Age of Discovery. This text analyses the most significant development in global history over the past 500 ...
Britain's Betrayal in India : The Story of the Anglo Indian Community
Frank Anthony
Paperback - $99.95
Former British Southern Cameroons Journey Towards Complete Decolonization, Independence, and Sovereignty. : A Comprehensive Compilation of Efforts. Vol
Martin Ayong Ayim
Paperback - $77.95
Bodies in Contact : Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
Tony Ballantyne
Paperback - $51.95
From portrayals of African women's bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean "comfort women" forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Se ...
Orientalism and Race : Aryanism in the British Empire
Tony Ballantyne
Paperback - $55.95
This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding into debates in Britain, Ireland, India, and the Pac ...
Chasing Empire Across the Sea : Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763
Kenneth J. Banks
Paperback - $65.95
Drawing from official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic archival material, Kenneth Banks explores the failure of transatlantic communications in helping to develop and maintain French imperialism during the height of France ...
The Idea of Greater Britain : Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900
Duncan Bell
Hardcover - $96.95
"Globalization, empire, and the uncertain future of the state are all topics high on the contemporary intellectual agenda, but ours is not the first generation to have viewed their interconnections with both anxiety and expectation. Duncan Bell's mas ...