This volume reproduces key historical texts concerning `colonial knowledges’. The use of the adjective 'colonial' indicates that knowledge is shaped by power

Few aspects of the history of modern empires are of such significance as their economics and politics. These factors are inextricably linked in many analyses, h

The collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors, representing the colonised or the coloni

This collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansi