Doubtless kindness lay behind Penguin’s absence of response to The Critic’s repeated requests for a review copy for me of this book. My request also failed, but I have gone out and bought a copy, and ...
Conservative commentator Candace Owens said the British colonization of Africa "ended up being a net positive" while defending the royal family amid revived criticism over their role in English ...
Histories of Zionism in the interwar period usually focus on Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. In this fascinating account, Imber widens the aperture to include South Asia and South ...
As the NATO powers escalate against Russia in the Ukraine, bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war, and dramatically escalate tensions with China over Taiwan, Kenyan President William Ruto ...
It was called the “scramble for Africa.” In the 19th century, European empires carved the continent into colonies they could exploit. A 21st-century scramble for Africa is now underway — and it’s no ...
This course is available on the BA in History, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in Economic History, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Economics and Economic History, BSc in History and ...
Queen Elizabeth II has passed away aged 96, after seven decades on the throne as head of the United Kingdom. Her death occurs at a time of acute economic, social and political crisis for British ...
Lee Wengraf’s Extracting Profit shows in great detail that Africa is poor, not because of any innate inability of Africans to raise themselves up, but because Africa’s poverty is necessary for ...
Do nations and civilizations grow out of the moral mire of military conquests, killings of innocent people, political cruelty and subjugation by imperialism? For more than 800 years, India as a Moghul ...
The History of Sectarianism in Scotland, he explores the roots of historical bigotry in imperialism and class rule The late ...
Journalist Sanghera follows up Empireland, his study of how Britain was shaped by its imperial past, with a comprehensive if occasionally off-key look at imperialism’s legacy abroad. Sanghera aims to ...