This book examines how ideas of citizenship and subjecthood were applied in societies under British and French imperial rule in order to expand our understanding of these concepts.
Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946
Explores the relationship between Filipinos and the US by looking at the politics of immigration, race, and citizenship on both sides of the Philippine-American. This book reveals how American practices of racial exclusion repeatedly collided with the imperatives of US overseas expansion.
Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946
Explores the complex relationship between Filipinos and the US by looking at the politics of immigration, race, and citizenship on both sides of the Philippine-American. This book reveals how American practices of racial exclusion repeatedly collided with the imperatives of US overseas expansion.
This book examines the current ethnic and religious landscape in the western Balkans. The author argues that the molding of nations and religious groups was a very slow and incremental process that was shaped by Ottoman policies, conflict, and geopolitical meddling in this culturally diverse part of Europe.
During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India.
The Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. However, the conflict also has a vitally important yet vastly understudied international dimension.
This broadly interdisciplinary book offers deep insight into Africa's colonial history for an understanding and explication of contemporary governance crises, security challenges, and state failure on the continent. It traverses political science, political economy, sociology, African history, and African studies in general.
Most accounts of the history of Palestine start from the premise that giving the country to the Zionists was just, and righted a wrong. How this unlikely event came about is described in detail. The conclusion is that this most historical of thefts has left the Palestinians in a state of subjugation and wretchedness with little hope of ......