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Forthcoming March 2025 Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany
Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging
Brauner, C., Dürr, R., Hahn, P., Overkamp, A. S., & Siemianowski, S. (eds)
An exacting re-examination of early modern Germany’s entanglement with European colonial projects, Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany provides a much-needed global perspective on the colonial “cult of connections” that underpinned early modern Germany’s social, religious, and material culture.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published December 2023
Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire
Gauthier-Bérubé, M. & Dempsey, A. (eds)
Through detailed archaeological case study, a multiregional approach and a theoretical approach around agencies and individuality, this volume focuses on the diversity of the population that participated in the maritime network of France through the 17th to the 19th century and whose agency and importance is often overlooked.
Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published May 2023
Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development
Informal Economy in the Three New Guineas
Conroy, J. D.
The idea of an informal economy emerged from, and is a critique of, the ideology of ‘economic development’. It originated from Keith Hart’s recognition of informal economic activity in 1960s Ghana. In the context of four colonialisms – German, British, Australian and Dutch – this book recounts Hart’s effort in 1972 to introduce the informal ‘sector’ into development planning in Papua New Guinea.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Colonial History
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Published March 2023
Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism
Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology
Ferraz de Matos, P.
Contributing to the history of anthropology, this book looks at the Porto School of Anthropology and analyses the life and work of its main mentor – Mendes Correia (1888-1960). Focused on Portugal, the analysis is also comparative with other international contexts.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published December 2022
The Servants of Empire
Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945
ODonnell, K. M.
In the late 1890s through the 1940s, Germany enacted race-based population policies in Southwest Africa which instrumentalized German women as colonists. The Servants of Empire engages the history of these colonial operatives, mostly comprised of poor, white women, as they became an unsettling force in colonial settlements and contributed to the rise of the German embrace of genocide, National Socialism, and apartheid.
Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2022
Borders in East and West
Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
Berger, S. & Hashimoto, N. (eds)
The different ways of understanding borders, through culture, politics, or even religion, is transforming and requires multi-disciplinary approaches the complexity of interactions and tensions that may arise. Borders in East and West focuses on the relationships between Europe and East Asia through comparative case studies to challenge discourses and build new perspectives.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published September 2022
Edible People
The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh
Siefkes, C.
While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to slavery: the fact that in some societies slaves and persons captured in slave raids could be, and were, killed and eaten. This book explores these largely forgotten practices and ignored connections.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Colonial History
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Published August 2022
Towards a Collaborative Memory
German Memory Work in a Transnational Context
Jones, S.
For the first time, this volume creates a sustained study that positions together transnational memory and relational sociology to consider the memory of the GDR. Towards a Collaborative Memory advances the field of transnational memory studies and develops new theoretical approaches that re-evaluate our understanding of actor-driven European memory.
Subjects: Memory Studies Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2022
Ethnographers Before Malinowski
Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922
Rosa, F. & Vermeulen, H. F. (eds)
At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out within a single context by a single individual, with its corresponding output, the monograph, was a twentieth-century invention.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Colonial History
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Published April 2022
African Political Systems Revisited
Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power
Bošković, A. & Schlee, G. (eds)
Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject matter and looks at how the work can help with analysis of current politics in Africa.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History Development Studies
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Published April 2022
Nurturing the Other
First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia
Grotti, V.
Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders such as American missionaries through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Anthropology of Religion
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Published March 2022
Indigenous Resurgence
Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice
Dhillon, J.
Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements for environmental justice, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Colonial History
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Published March 2022
The World beyond the West
Perspectives from Eastern Europe
Kałczewiak, M. & Kozłowska, M. (eds)
Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspective is not only an important addition to the study of orientalism and post coloniality, but the transnational links in-between Eastern Europe show the region’s importance to a global history.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published June 2021
German Rule, African Subjects
State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia
Zimmerer, J.
This classic study, now available for the first time in English, explains how German colonial ambitions foundered in present-day Namibia. As it shows, the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities could not accommodate the practical, lived realities of both colonizer and colonized.
Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2021
Rethinking Atlantic Empire
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles
Eastman, S. & Jacobsen, S. (eds)
In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Rethinking Atlantic Empire places Schmidt-Nowara’s work within the context of the broader field, reflecting on his contributions and charting potential new directions in research.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published April 2021
Merchant Kings
Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870
Schrauwers, A.
Merchant Kings offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the rapid industrialization of the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java during the nineteenth century. By placing colony and metropole into a single analytical frame, it offers a bracing new approach to understanding the development of modern corporations within the context of empire.
Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published February 2021
South Africa's Dreams
Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Gordon, R. J.
In the early sixties, many South African anthropologists supported ‘Grand Apartheid’ in Namibia. South Africa’s colonial policies in the country served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive infrastructure, and strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. The book also analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published January 2021
Commerce as Politics
The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence
Maliehe, S. M.
This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert themselves into their country’s commerce.
Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History
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Published October 2020
Captives, Colonists and Craftspeople
Material Culture and Institutional Power in Malta, 1600–1900
Palmer, R.
This innovative study draws on both archival evidence and archeological research to compare Malta’s experience under the regimes of the Knights of St. John from 1530 to 1798 and afterward as a maritime outpost of the British Empire in terms of such topics as slavery, the control of resources, and globalization.
Subjects: Colonial History Archaeology
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Published August 2020
Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects
The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Curto, D. R.
In a series of illuminating case studies, Curto follows the history and perception of major Portuguese colonial initiatives while integrating the complex perspectives of participating agents to show how the empire’s life and culture were richly inflected by the operations of imperial expansion.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History
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Published May 2020
On the Edges of Whiteness
Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War
Lingelbach, J.
From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of World War II in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, and Kenya. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors.
Subjects: History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies Colonial History
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Published February 2020
Colonial Seeds in African Soil
A Critical History of Forest Conservation in Sierra Leone
Munro, P.
Drawing upon the fields of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex forest conservation history of Sierra Leone during the 20th century. It grounds a broader trans-national history of Empire Forestry with a case study focused on Sierra Leone, examining how colonial ideas shaped forest conservation in West Africa.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2019
The Sound of Silence
Indigenous Perspectives on the Historical Archaeology of Colonialism
Äikäs, T. & Salmi, A.-K. (eds)
Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. The volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view.
Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Memory Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2019
A Sad Fiasco
Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900–1908
Kreienbaum, J.
Comparative studies on concentration camps have tended to neglect the African colonial experience at the turn of the twentieth century. A Sad Fiasco delves deeper into the daily lives led in the colonial concentration camps in southern Africa and the motives behind the mass extinction of thousands of internees.
Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2019
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste
Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)
Brings together different generations of Timor-Leste scholars into dialogue to reconsider a diversity of such critical topics as the incorporation of strangers, the meanings of colonial documents, the value of sacred heirlooms, or the remembering (and forgetting) of colonial violence.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Sociology
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Published April 2019
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents
The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Anderson, W., Roque, R., & Ventura Santos, R. (eds)
The Portuguese-speaking Global South, especially Brazil, often envisions itself as exceptional in its racial conceptions and politics. Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents reassesses Gilberto Freyre’s influential claims that Portuguese colonialism produced what came to be called “racial democracy,” and explores racialization beyond the common trope of “race-mixing.”
Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published November 2018
Explorations and Entanglements
Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I
Berghoff, H., Biess, F., & Strasser, U. (eds)
Explorations and Entanglements reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the “Pacific Worlds.” It concentrates on the pre-1914 period and encompasses scientific, cultural, religious and commercial exchanges. It opens a gate to a fascinating and hitherto much neglected arena of transnational encounters.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Colonial History
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Published September 2018
Medicinal Rule
A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
Stroeken, K.
Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine – and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer’s despotic administrator, the missionary’s divine king, or Vansina’s big man.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
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Published April 2018
A Creole Nation
National Integration in Guinea-Bissau
Kohl, C.
Despite high degrees of cultural and ethnic diversity as well as prevailing political instability, Guinea-Bissau’s population has developed a strong sense of national belonging. By examining contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation explores how creole identity, culture, and political leaders have influenced postcolonial nation-building processes in Guinea-Bissau.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published November 2017
Subjects, Citizens, and Others
Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918
Gammerl, B.
Exploring racism, migration, and citizenship, Subjects, Citizens and Others offers a pioneering analysis of how the British and the Austro-Hungarian Empire governed their ethnically diverse populations. Author Benno Gammerl rejects common assumptions about ethnic exclusivity in Eastern and Western Europe, analyzing the legal and political conditions that help to foster ethnic heterogeneity.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2017
Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future
Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
Wolffhardt, T.
During the 1800s, the East India Company consolidated its rule in India. In desperate need of knowledge about this territory and its population, the company appointed Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future explores the life and career of Mackenzie, and his massive survey of India.
Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century
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Published August 2017
Cooperation and Empire
Local Realities of Global Processes
Bührer, T., Eichmann, F., Förster, S. & Stuchtey, B. (eds)
The contributions to this volume revisit Ronald E. Robinson’s theory of colonial collaboration in a range of historical contexts by melding it with theoretical perspectives derived from postcolonial studies and transnational history. Its case studies range globally over the course of four centuries, exploring the varied, complex interactions between imperial and local actors.
Subjects: Colonial History History (General)
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Published August 2017
European Anthropologies
Barrera-González, A., Heintz, M. & Horolets, A. (eds)
By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this volume aims to sketch its intellectual and institutional portrait. It will be a useful reading for the students of anthropology, ethnology, history and philosophy of science, research and science policy makers.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History
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Published December 2016
Xenocracy
State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864
Gekas, S.
Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the islands of the Ionian Sea during their half-century of oversight by Great Britain. It recounts how, despite Britain’s liberal reforms, the Ionian State’s economic deterioration anticipated the “neocolonial” condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published August 2016
Violent Becomings
State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
Bertelsen, B. E.
Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Colonial History
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Published July 2016
The Nature of German Imperialism
Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
Gissibl, B.
This is the first book-length study analyzing the origins of Tanzania’s wildlife conservation under German colonial rule. It examines the shift of wildlife policies from exploitation to preservation. By situating East Africa’s conservation in a global context, The Nature of German Imperialism shows how colonial policy helped to shape international conservationist efforts.
Subjects: Colonial History Environmental Studies (General)
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Published February 2016
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Knörr, J. & Kohl, C. (eds)
For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the world engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. This book examines how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in social phenomena that have resulted.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Colonial History
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Published June 2014
The Ethnographic Experiment
A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
Hviding, E. & Berg, C. (eds)
In 1908 Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers brought about a turning point in modern anthropology. The two pioneers’ fieldwork in Island Melanesia brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. Contributors to this volume—who have all carried out fieldwork in Melanesian locations—situate the scholars’ efforts in the contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
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Published July 2013
Germany and the Black Diaspora
Points of Contact, 1250-1914
Honeck, M., Klimke, M., & Kuhlmann, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published June 2013
Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire
Fradera, J. M. & Schmidt-Nowara, C. (eds)
Subjects: Colonial History History (General)
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Published June 2013
Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J.
The author’s sharply critical perspective reveals how an epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes cognitive justice and new humanism.
Subject: Colonial History
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Published February 2013
Palimpsestic Memory
The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film
SIlverman, M
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History Colonial History
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Published June 2008
Empire, Colony, Genocide
Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History
Moses, A. D. (ed)
Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History
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Published May 2008
Spirits and Letters
Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity
Kirsch, T. G.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Colonial History Educational Studies
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Published December 2007
Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History
Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide
King, R. H. & Stone, D. (eds)
Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2007
Empire and After
Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective
MacPhee, G. & Poddar, P. (eds)
Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published October 2007
Sugarlandia Revisited
Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940
Bosma, U., Giusti-Cordero, J, & Knight, G.K. (eds)
Subject: Colonial History
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Published July 2007
Postcoloniality
The French Dimension
Majumdar, M. A.
Subject: Colonial History
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Published October 2004
Genocide and Settler Society
Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History
Moses, A. D. (ed)
Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History
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Published January 2003
The Road to War
France and Vietnam 1944-1947
Shipway, M.
Subject: Colonial History
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Published August 2002
Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923
Trade and Travel, People and Politics
Ardener, S. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Travel and Tourism
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Published September 2000
Recalling the Belgian Congo
Conversations and Introspection
Dembour, M.-B.
Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology
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