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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Ruling the Margins

    Colonial Power and Administrative Rule in the Past and Present

    by Prem Kumar Rajaram ...
    Series series Interventions
    Administrative rule is a type of rule centered on devising and implementing regulations governing how we live and how we conduct ourselves economically and politically, and sometimes culturally. The principle feature of this type of rule is the important question about how things should be arranged and for what purpose becomes a bureaucratic matter.Histories of the global south are rarely used to ... Read more

    $53.58 CAD

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  • Heaven's Command

    by Jan Morris ...
    Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plantations, as she traces the impact of empire on places as diverse as Sierra Leone and Fiji, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • India

    A Short History

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series A Short History
    India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The White Possessive

    Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty

    by Aileen Moreton-Robinson ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Lord Kitchener

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    Series series The World At War
    Writing shortly after Kitchener's death, G. K. Chesterton attempted to evaluate the military leader's career more as a succession of triumphs, from the defeat of the Mahdi at Omdurman to the defusing of a potential war with France at Fashoda to victories in South Africa's Boer War, to diplomatic and military leadership in India. (Goodreads) ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • Imperialism, Power, and Identity

    Experiencing the Roman Empire

    by David J. Mattingly ...
    Series series Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology
    "An ambitious attempt to map the transformation of lifestyles and experience among Rome's provincial subjects in the first three centuries AD. . . . "History from below" at its best" ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colonialism

    by Norrie Macqueen ...
    Series series Short Histories of Big Ideas
    Europe’s rapacious hunger for other people’s lands is one of the key shaping forces of our contemporary world. Everything is touched by our colonial past, from the way we see the world to the food we eat. Our contemporary preoccupations and ills – from globalization to humanitarian intervention to international terrorism – have colonialism somewhere in their genetic make-up.The character and ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • The Lords of Human Kind

    European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

    by Victor Kiernan ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous.Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries' memoirs, the letters of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Aleppo

    The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

    by Philip Mansel ...
    Every time gardens welcomed us, we said to them,Aleppo is our aim and you are merely the route.'Al-MutanabbiAleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse as Aleppo – one of the oldest, continuously ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography

    by Wm.Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 5 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Gender, Empire, and Postcolony

    Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections

    by Anna M. Klobucka ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

    by A. Rudd ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD