Description
An authoritative history of modern European empires which covers: eras of colonisation and decolonisation; transnational themes in colonialism; and 'snapshots' of particular colonies at key moments.
About the Author
Robert Aldrich is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. His works on colonial history include Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (2005), Cultural Encounters and Homosexuality in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity (2014), and Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (2018). He is the co-author (with John Connell) of The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited (2020), and co-editor (with Kirsten McKenzie) of The Routledge History of Western Empires (2014) and co-editor (with Cindy McCreery) of Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empires (2016), Royals on Tour: Politics, Pageantry and Colonialism (2018), and Monarchies and Decolonisation in Asia (2020). Andreas Stucki is Ludwig and Margarethe Quidde Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome, Italy. He specialises in Caribbean and Iberian history of the nineteenth and twentieth century. He is the author of Violence and Gender in Africa's Iberian Colonies: Feminizing the Portuguese and Spanish Empire, 1950s-1970s (2019) and of a monograph on the social history of the Cuban Wars of Independence, published in German in 2012 and in Spanish in 2017 (Aufstand und Zwangsumsiedlung: Die kubanischen Unabhangigkeitskriege, 1868-1898; Las Guerras de Cuba: Una historia de violencia y campos de concentracion).
Reviews
A valuable book, one worthy of a place on the shelves of libraries in secondary schools and tertiary education colleges and universities. It is a book that knocks on doors and demands we open them. * ColdType *
A masterly account full of fresh insights and engaging arguments. Their innovative structure enables Aldrich and Stucki to wield the historical lens with enviable flair. The vast topic of European empire is telescoped into comprehensible trends and themes, while still allowing for the precise focus on distinct times and places that brings the past alive. This is a history of the colonial world for the here and now. * Kirsten McKenzie, Professor of History, University of Sydney, UK *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350092402
Author Professor Robert Aldrich
Format Paperback
Page Count 552
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC