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Critical Histories
Committed to publishing books that consider world history, particularly Third World history, from other than an American or European perspective, this series features the work of scholars from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, as well as works by American and European scholars based largely on non-European language sources. The series is closed to new submissions.
No single person is more directly associated with India and India's struggle for independence than Mahatma Gandhi. His name has equally become synonymous with the highest principles of global equality,...
Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean
Madhavi Kale
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812234671
Pub Date: January 1998
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in...
British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 16-185
Edited by Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780812216998
Pub Date: March 1999
Format: Paperback
400 Pages
Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The process, unconfined to the British Isles, ran across the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean and...
The Politics of Gender, Class, and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills
Leela Fernandes
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812215977
Pub Date: April 1997
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
As the politicization of cultural identities—based on religion, ethnicity, gender, race—has come to play a central role in shaping relations between and among peoples, issues of difference raise...
In an era of failing states and ethnic conflict, violent challenges from dissenting groups in the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, several African countries, and India give cause for grave...
