Heroic imperialists in Africa

Heroic imperialists in AfricaThis book looks at imperial heroes from behind the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories under a radically new angle. It demonstrates how their reputations were made over several decades, and depicts the milieus and individuals who supported, and benefited from, these heroic stories.

the editors open up the critical debate to look at a larger variety of films from many different countries and cultures

were the most popular Russian cinema of the 1930s and ’40s

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The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote

public policies regarding vulnerable groups and the respective polities in Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Black Sea

the dynamics of luxury and basic fashion after the recent economic crisis and the negotiation through fashion of social class and feminine identity

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which through a series of 101 interconnected questions and answers spanning ten thematic sections

tensions and movements involved in the road to war in 1999

the collection demonstrates that active consumption is not merely a product of the digital age

this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain