Colonialism

Essays on History, Social Transformation and Culture

Susan Visvanathan, CSSS/SSS JNU, New Delhi, India The book is a compilation of essays which documents the key issues that have been pertinent in national debates in India. It takes a linear and chronological position on how the past informs us as we proceed with making sense of postmodern fluid society. It uses biography, symbols and narratives to piece together our engagement with literature, history, myth and legend. Readers will see that the world always appears in the spaces that are produced by travel, by terror, freedom, conquest and adaptation.

UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 304 pages HB 9789354350665 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354350740 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9789354355189 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Gunboats, Empire and the China Station

The Royal Navy in 1920s East Asia

Matthew Heaslip, University of Portsmouth, UK. Examining Britain’s imperial outposts in 1920s East Asia, this book explores the changes and challenges affecting the Royal Navy’s third largest fleet, the China Station, against the changing nature of Britain's informal empire. Highlighting the importance of the China Station to the British imperial system and revealing the lived experiences of these imperial outposts, Heaslip calls into question how peaceful this peacetime was.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 320 pages PB 9781350213562 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350176188 ePub 9781350176201 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350176195 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia

Edited by David Baillargeon, University of Texas at Arlington, USA & Jeremy E. Taylor, University of Nottingham, UK This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and were shaped by new interpretations and typologies of ‘space’. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The European Research Council.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350252608 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350252622 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350252615 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Creating the Cape Colony

The Political Economy of Settler Colonisation

Erik Green, Lund University, Sweden This book offers a detailed study of the establishment and expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certain regions in the global south became European settler societies from the 16th century onwards. Examining the different factors that led to the creation of the Cape Colony, assessing specific characteristics of this settlement and comparing key insights of this study with the historiography of other settler colonies, this book demonstrates the need to revise our understanding of how settler economies operated and to rethink the long-term legacies of settler colonialism. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation grant.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350258235 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350258259 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350258242 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Empire's Other Histories

Victoria Haskins, University of Newcastle, Australia, Emily Manktelow, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, Jonathan Saha, University of Leeds, UK and Fae Dussart, University of Sussex, UK

Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’

Colonial Warfare in Perak, Sierra Leone and Sudan

Michelle Gordon, Uppsala University, Sweden Extreme Violence and the 'British Way' demonstrates the ways in which Britain was as willing and able as other European empires to resort to extreme violence when faced with indigenous resistance. To this end, Gordon focuses on three case studies: the Perak War, the 'Hut Tax' Revolt in Sierra Leone and the Anglo-Egyptian War of Re-conquest in the Sudan, providing essential reading for students and scholars alike with a keen interest in the British Empire and the history of violence.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350202603 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350156883 ePub 9781350156906 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350156890 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Empire’s Other Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

Unhomely Empire

Whiteness and Belonging, c.1760-1830

Onni Gust, Nottingham University, UK Examining the discourse of ‘home’ and ‘exile’ in Enlightenment thought, this book explores its role in British imperial expansion during the ‘long’ 18th century. European imperial expansion radically increased population mobility through new trade routes, war, disease and labour, and by the 18th century millions of people were on the move. This book argues that this mass movement led to intellectual ideas and questions about what it meant to belong, and played a major role in the construction of racial difference in empire.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 248 pages PB 9781350192737 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350128514 ePub 9781350128538 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350128521 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Empire’s Other Histories • Bloomsbury Academic