After the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally and economically? In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale…

Examines momentous changes in notions of citizenship, sovereignty, nation, state, and empire in a time of acute uncertainty about the future of a world that had earlier been divided into…

This book offers a first-hand account of the crisis in the Punjab during the 1940s. It covers the political, social, and economic factors that led to the partition of India…

This volume assesses colonial policy toward African labor. It shows how African trade union and political leaders began to claim equality, and demonstrates the failure of Britain and France to…

Examines the production, transmission, and implementation of ideas about development within historical, political, and intellectual contexts. This title focuses on the diverse and contested meanings of development among social movements…

Examines what the experience of past empires tells us about the nature and consequences of global power. Reviewing the much contested history of domination by Western colonizing powers, this work…

This text has been written to be accessible to students in advanced undergraduate quantum mechanics courses. Problems have been given at the end of each chapter, along with complete solutions…

The establishment and maintenance of public roads were among the most important functions of the county court during the colonial period in Virginia. Each road was opened and maintained by…