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Clarendon Paperbacks eBook Series

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  • Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945

    by W. G. Beasley ...
    Series series Clarendon Paperbacks
    This is a study of the origins and nature of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through to 1945. Japan is the only Asian country in modern times to have built both a successful industrial economy and an empire, and it is Professor Beasley's contention that these two phenomena are closely related. Japan's aims were influenced by its experience of western imperialism and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Princely India and the British

    Political Development and the Operation of Empire

    by Caroline Keen ...
    In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Myanmar

    A Political History

    by Nehginpao Kipgen ...
    Myanmar, since its independence from the British in 1948, has witnessed decades of military dictatorship, a plethora of ethnic and political problems, and an arduous struggle to political normalcy and democracy. Reinventing its place in international trade, diplomacy, and geo-strategy, Myanmar today presents a complex picture—and how it engages with its own history plays an important part in this ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Subaltern Lives

    Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920

    by Clare Anderson ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the Australian colonies, Clare Anderson offers fresh readings of the nature ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • When the Future Disappears

    The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea

    by Janet Poole ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed toward total war, Korean writers in this global fascist moment produced some of the most ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • British Policy in the Persian Gulf, 1961-1968

    Conceptions of Informal Empire

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    An in-depth analysis of Great Britain's policy in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region during the last years of British imperialism in the area, covering the period from the independence of Kuwait to the decision of the Wilson Government to withdraw from the Gulf. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Comrades against Imperialism

    Nehru, India, and Interwar Internationalism

    by Michele L. Louro ...
    Series series Global and International History
    In this book Michele L. Louro compiles the debates, introduces the personalities, and reveals the ideas that seeded Jawaharlal Nehru's political vision for India and the wider world. Set between the world wars, this book argues that Nehru's politics reached beyond India in order to fulfill a greater vision of internationalism that was rooted in his experiences with anti-imperialist and anti ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Colonialism, Han, and the Transformative Spirit

    by Grace Ji-Sun Kim ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Globalism, colonialism, and consumerism have caused unjust suffering (han), for the earth's exploited peoples and the exploited lands. To reverse this tragedy, we need to work for a safer, sustainable planet and renew our inspiration from God as the transforming Spirit who gives, sustains and empowers life to all. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants

    Bondage in the Indian Ocean World, 1750–1914

    by A. Stanziani ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex relationships in the Indian Ocean in the long 19th century. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Vice in the Barracks

    Medicine, the Military and the Making of Colonial India, 1780-1868

    by E. Wald ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author.Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and alcohol-related problems holding serious implications for the economic and military performance of the East India Company. These ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Bombay Islam

    The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915

    by Nile Green ...
    As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism and the production of religion to show how Muslim migration fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as Christian missionaries competed with Muslim religious entrepreneurs for a stake in the new market. ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • The Origins of Modern Historiography in India

    Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780-1880

    by R. Mantena ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD