Empires in Perspective
About the Book Series
This important series examines a diverse range of imperial histories from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Drawing on works of political, social, economic and cultural history, the history of science and political theory, the series encourages methodological pluralism and does not impose any particular conception of historical scholarship. While focused on particular aspects of empire, works published also seek to address wider questions on the study of imperial history.
A History of Italian Colonialism 1900-1914: The Promised Land: Volume I
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Finaldi
November 13, 2025
This book examines Italy’s colonial history from the turn of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War. This first volume engages with a period of huge social, political and cultural change in Italy resulting in a new dynamism on the African and expansionist front. ...
A History of Italian Colonialism 1914-1919: The Promised Land: Volume II
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Finaldi
November 13, 2025
This book examines Italy’s colonial history from the outbreak of the First World War to the first stirrings of Fascism in 1919. Offering a sweeping account of events and a vast array of characters, this second volume moves between Rome and the Alps, Libya, East Africa and beyond to tell of ...
Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions: The Zanzibar Sultanate, Britain, and France in the Indian Ocean, 1862–1905
1st Edition
By Raphaël Cheriau
January 09, 2023
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism met in the most ...
The Discourse of British and German Colonialism: Convergence and Competition
1st Edition
Edited
By Felicity Rash, Geraldine Horan
August 01, 2022
This volume compares and contrasts British and German colonialist discourses from a variety of angles: philosophical, political, social, economic, legal, and discourse-linguistic. British and German cooperation and competition are presented as complementary forces in the European colonial project ...
Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887
1st Edition
By Stephen A. Royle
December 13, 2021
In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This was part of a larger story of Empire and East Asian geopolitics involving China, Japan, Korea and Russia. At the time Britain and Russia seemed ...
Colonialism, China and the Chinese: Amidst Empires
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Monteath, Matthew Fitzpatrick
March 31, 2021
This book explores the place of China and the Chinese during the age of imperialism. Focusing not only on the state but also on the vitality of Chinese culture and the Chinese diaspora, it examines the seeming contradictions of a period in which China came under immense pressure from imperial ...
The First World War, Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India, 1914-1924
1st Edition
By Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury
March 31, 2021
Between 1914, when the Great War began, and 1924, when the Ottoman Caliphate ended, British and Indian officials and activists reformulated political ideas in the context of total war in the Middle East, Gandhian mass mobilisation, and the 1919 Amritsar massacre. Using discussions on travel, ...
Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Gareth Knapman, Anthony Milner, Mary Quilty
June 30, 2020
This collection of essays collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question: what was the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia? The empire builders in Southeast Asia: Lord Minto, William Farquhar, John Leyden, ...
Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection
1st Edition
By John Fisher
June 30, 2020
Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britain’s interests in the Near East and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Essays address themes in British power projection in a geographically wide area encompassing parts of the Ottoman ...
The Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India
1st Edition
By Somaditya Banerjee
May 27, 2020
This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian physicists Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974), Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) and Meghnad Saha (1893-1956). The analytical category "bhadralok ...
British Imperialism and Turkish Nationalism in Cyprus, 1923-1939: Divide, Define and Rule
1st Edition
By Ilia Xypolia
May 07, 2019
As Cyprus experienced British imperial rule between 1878 and 1960, Greek and Turkish nationalism on the island developed at different times and at different speeds. Relations between Turkish Cypriots and the British on the one hand, and Greek Cypriots and the British on the other, were often ...
A History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907: Europe’s Last Empire
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Finaldi
June 28, 2018
This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in ...