Conquering the maharajas POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & LiberalismConquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947.
in an increasingly globalised world that is shaped by entangled histories of European antisemitism and colonial violence
film and the city of London
Laura Peters considers canonical texts alongside lesser known works from popular culture in order to establish the context in which discourses of orphanhood operated
This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication
This daring book explores how and why women are radicalised into far-right movements online and offers advice for fighting back against this alarming trend
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tensions and actions that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998
Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia – creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection
and also to policy-makers who have witnessed the inadequacies of investor-led business models during the global recession
He came to England in 1945 and was adopted but not told about his family
The book constructs a case for re-imagining Europe – not as an entity in Brussels or a series of fixed relations – but as a simultaneously real and imagined space of action which exists to the extent that Europeans and others act in and on it
extending from his earliest documentaries to the musical films of the last decade
