Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present (Monthly Review Press Classic Titles) by Harry Magdoff
English | January 1, 1978 | ISBN: 0853454264, 0853454981 | True EPUB | 279 pages | 0.6 MB

German Soldiers in Colonial India By Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi
2015 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1848933673 | PDF | 4 MB
Tzoref-Ashkenazi presents a detailed study of two German regiments which served in India under the British between 1782 and 1791. He asks if the Germans identified with the goals of the British colonial power, how they felt about local people and whether they adopted the colonial ideologies of their British employers.

Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) By Niels Brimnes
1998 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0700711066 | PDF | 59 MB
This book offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rocked the European settlements on the Coromandel Coast in the early colonial period. Whereas the Indian population expected the colonial authorities to intervene in the disputes, the Europeans were reluctant to get involved in conflicts which they barely understood. In the nineteenth century the significance of the divisions diminished, a development that has long puzzled historians and anthropologists. In addition, this study addresses the larger issue of the nature of colonial encounters. The rich material relating to these disputes convincingly demonstrates how Europeans and Indians, as they sought to incorporate each other into their own social structure and conceptual universe, participated in a dialogue on the nature of South Indian society.

Bernards Nick Bernards, "A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures"
English | ISBN: 0745344828 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A comprehensive historical tracing of how the contemporary finance-poverty-development nexus emerged.

Shuk-Wah Poon, "Power and Politics at the Colonial Seaside "
English | ISBN: 0367648075 | 2022 | 148 pages | PDF | 6 MB

Rolena Adorno, "Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction"
English | ISBN: 0199755027 | 2011 | 168 pages | PDF | 1464 KB
A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin American literature, Rolena Adorno examines the writings that debated the justice of the Spanish conquests, described the novelties of New World nature, expressed the creativity of Hispanic baroque culture in epic, lyric, and satirical poetry, and anticipated Latin American Independence. The works of Spanish, creole, and Amerindian authors highlighted here, including Bartolomé de las Casas, Felipe Guaman Poma, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Andrés Bello, have been chosen for the merits of their writings, their participation in the larger literary and cultural debates of their times, and their resonance among readers today.

Colonial wars of North America, 1512-1763 an encyclopedia | 4.91 MB
English | 586 Pages

Title: Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763 (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Alan Gallay
Year: 2019

Imagined Topographies: From Colonial Resource to Postcolonial Homeland (Postcolonial Studies) By Jonathan Bishop Highfield
2012 | 181 Pages | ISBN: 1433119870 | PDF | 6 MB
One important legacy of colonialism is the separation of a culture from the land upon which its people live. Populations are displaced; topographical objects are renamed, and the land becomes a resource to be exploited. Starting with three landscapes viewed as threatening by the Europeans who colonized them, Imagined Topographies examines the ways artists, writers, and musicians distill new meaning in formerly colonized spaces through the articulation of landscapes that are homelands, not commodities. In the Irish bog Seamus Heaney explores legacies of violence, John Dunne looks at rural poverty and religious faith, and Catherine Harper creates art connecting landscape and gender. Influenced by the Amazon, Wilson Harris creates dense multi-layered Guyanese epics, Karen Tei Yamashita plays with the telenovela to explore the role of multinational corporations in deforestation, and in recordings Douglas Quin combines the natural world with the technological, raising questions of connected cultural and natural loss. The two landscapes of Australia, the empty land of the colonizers and the fertile land known by the original inhabitants, are explored in the novels of David Malouf, while Peter Carey turns to the animal world to define the Australian national character, and the people of Ramingining, in films and a website created in collaboration with the filmmaker Rolf de Heer, intervene in the Australian land rights struggle. Challenging the dominant perceptions of land in these regions, artists, musicians, and writers create new visions of landscapes tied to cultures where social and ecological justice offer choices other than emigration and habitat destruction.

A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo By Allen F. Roberts
2012 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0253007437 | PDF | 6 MB
A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace "a white line across the Dark Continent" to legitimize King Leopold's audacious claim to the Congo. Confrontation was inevitable, and Lusinga lost his head. His skull became the subject of a sinister evolutionary treatise, while his ancestral figure is now considered a treasure of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Allen F. Roberts reveals the theatricality of early colonial encounter and how it continues to influence Congolese and Belgian understandings of history today.

Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire By Pramod K. Nayar(auth.)
2012 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 1444338560 | PDF | 2 MB
This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even as they helped the English fashion themselves.An engaging examination of European colonizers' representations of native populationsAnalyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues, administrative reports, and traveloguesSurveys 400 years of India's history, from the 16th century to the end of the British Empire Demonstrates how colonial discourses naturalized the racial and cultural differences between the English and the Indians, and controlled anxieties over these differencesContent: Chapter 1 Introducing Colonial Discourse (pages 1-11): Chapter 2 Travel, Exploration, and "Discovery" (pages 12-54): Chapter 3 The Discourse of Difference (pages 55-103): Chapter 4 Empire Management (pages 104-160): Chapter 5 Civilizing the Empire (pages 161-200): Chapter 6 Aesthetic Understanding (pages 201-234):