This thought-provoking and original collection looks at how intellectuals and their disciplines have been shaped, halted and advanced by the rise and fall of em

Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.

Examines the politics of intellectual life during the Cold War, and the effects of U.S. intelligence and propaganda agencies on academic culture and intellectua

The entire course of modern Western history has been shaped by the rise and fall of the great European empires. The Burdens of Empire examines different aspects

Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured largely in the mainstream