Free Download Yanihara Tadao and Japanese Colonial Policy: Redeeming Empire By Susan C. Townsend
2000 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0700712755 | PDF | 8 MB
The first comprehensive analysis of the colonial writings of Yanaihara Tadao whose extensive commentary on Japanese and European colonial policy is remarkable not only for its scholarly integrity but also for its sheer breadth.

Free Download The Magnificent Boat: The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure by Götz Aly, translated by Jefferson Chase
English | March 7, 2023 | ISBN: 0674276574 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 44.6 MB
From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.

Free Download Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, "Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration"
English | 2016 | pages: 307 | ISBN: 0824883144, 0824853741 | PDF | 20,4 mb
Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: "kings," royals banished as political exiles; "convicts," the vast majority of those whose lives are explored in this volume, sent halfway across the world with often unexpected consequences; and "commemoration," referring to the myriad ways in which the experience and its aftermath were remembered by those exiled, relatives left behind, colonial officials, and subsequent generations of descendants, devotees, historians, and politicians. Intended for a broad readership interested in the colonial period in Asia (South and Southeast Asia in particular), the volume encompasses a range of disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies.

Free Download Bruce Lenman, "England's Colonial Wars 1550-1688: Conflicts, Empire and National Identity "
English | ISBN: 1138181064 | 2017 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Bruce Lenman's hugely ambitious study explores three interacting themes: the growth of England's sprawling colonial empire; its military dimension; and the impact of colonial warfare on national identity. He starts in Ireland, with the renewed assault of English settlers on the Irish Gaeltacht. Under the (Scottish) Stuarts, England then began a dramatic expansion across the North Atlantic. In America, the 'Indian Wars', fought with minimal Crown support, helped forge an independent military capability among the colonists; while, in the West Indies, slave numbers and French intervention forced English settlers into a new dependency on the Crown. In India, the East India Company achieved ascendancy by sepoy armies under British control. These were very different kinds of empire; and a showdown became inevitable. The climactic conflict, the American Revolution, would not only dictate the future shape of colonial expansion, but also decisively reshaped the identities of all the participants.

Free Download East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031174860 | 380 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This open access book explores the ambiguity of East Central Europe during the twentieth century, examining local contexts through a comparative and transnational reworking of theoretical models in postcolonial studies. Since the early modern period, East Central Europe has arguably been an object of imperialism. However, at the same time East Central European states have been seen to be colonial actors, with individuals from the region often associating themselves with colonial discourses in extra-European contexts. Spanning a broad time period until after the Second World War and covering the governance of Communism and its legacies, the book examines how cultural and literary narratives from East Central Europe have created and revised historical knowledge, making use of collective memory to feed into identity models.

Free Download Michelle R. Warren, "Creole Medievalism: Colonial France and Joseph Bédier's Middle Ages"
English | ISBN: 0816665265 | 2011 | 416 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Joseph Bédier (1864-1938) was one of the most famous scholars of his day. He held prestigious posts and lectured throughout Europe and the United States, an activity unusual for an academic of his time. A scholar of the French Middle Ages, he translated Tristan and Isolde as well as France's national epic, The Song of Roland. Bédier was publicly committed to French hegemony, yet he hailed from a culture that belied this ideal-the island of Réunion in the southern Indian Ocean.

Free Download The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPN5KKTJ | 2022 | 11 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 610 MB
Author: Dan Hicks
Narrator: Ben Onwukwe
Walk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes-a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The Brutish Museums sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. Since its first publication, museums across the western world have begun to return their Bronzes to Nigeria, heralding a new era in the way we understand the collections of empire we once took for granted.

Free Download Philip P. Boucher, "The Shaping of the French Colonial Empire: A Bio-Bibliography of the Careers of Richelieu, Fouquet, and Colbert "
English | ISBN: 1138549541 | 2019 | 220 pages | EPUB | 278 KB
This bio-bibliography, first published in 1985, of the colonial "ministries" of Cardinal Richelieu, Nicholas Fouquet and Jean-Baptiste Colbert examines the primary and secondary sources available for a re-evaluation of the formative era of the French overseas empire. This volume will be of great interest to students of history and imperialism.

Free Download Nicole von Germeten, "Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico"
English | ISBN: 0520297318 | 2018 | 264 pages | EPUB | 385 KB
Colonial documents and works of literature from early modern Spain are rife with references to public women, whores, and prostitutes. In Profit and Passion, Nicole von Germeten offers a new history of the women who carried and resisted these labels of ill repute. The elusive, ever-changing terminology for prosecuted women voiced by kings, jurists, magistrates, inquisitors, and bishops, as well as disgruntled husbands and neighbors, foreshadows the increasing regulation, criminalization, and polarizing politics of modern global transactional sex. The author's analysis concentrates on the words women spoke in depositions and court appearances and on how their language changed over time, pointing to a broader transformation in the history of sexuality, gender, and the ways in which courts and law enforcement processes affected women.

Free Download Poonam Bala, "Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World"
English | ISBN: 1793651221 | 2023 | 380 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The essays in this volume examine the nature and extent of disease on indigenous communities and local populations located within the vast regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans as a result of colonial sea power and colonial conquest. While this established a long-term impact of disease on populations, the essays also offer insights into the dynamics of these populations in resisting colonial intrusions and introduction of disease to newly-acquired territories.