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How the ANC betrayed its found principles. Pheko, Motsoko Feb 1, 2012 2570
Reading in colonial Australia: the 2011 John Alexander Ferguson memorial lecture. Webby, Elizabeth Lecture Dec 1, 2011 8000
The first panoramas; visions of British imperialism. Book review Oct 1, 2011 176
Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire. Cook, Harold J. Book review Sep 1, 2011 781
Nat MSP's fury over tartan extremists. Aug 4, 2011 229
A BUILDING FIT FOR THE SECOND CITY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Jul 19, 2011 687
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783-1939. Weaver, John Book review Jun 22, 2011 1115
TURKEY-BRITAIN -Turkish businessman decorated with excellent order of Britain. Jun 22, 2011 199
Gilead Sciences' Executive Vice President Kevin Young Appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Jun 13, 2011 565
Our once-great nation has now lost its way. Jun 10, 2011 280
Lumumba--imperial amorality in its crassest state: hardly was the ink dry on my articles on Patrice Lumumba (Na, April & May) when I was invited to a film screening in North London in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Lumumba's death. And what a film it was! Duodu, Cameron Jun 1, 2011 1374
Taxes: a 'certain' problem still. Jun 1, 2011 532
Framing women: gender and modernity in colonial India. Dinkar, Niharika Jun 1, 2011 1393
Memorial Day History: 5 Top Generals in U.S. History. May 30, 2011 508
Syrian press roundup. May 28, 2011 1305
The 'knotted hands that set us high': labour history and the study of convict Australia. Roberts, David Andrew Essay May 1, 2011 10869
Chance to revive that elusive community spirit; The world has changed since Wales celebrated the royal wedding in 1981. But some things have remained with us, writes historian Martin Johnes. Apr 27, 2011 746
Be proud of our imperial history. Apr 12, 2011 548
Pakistan and the benefits of apologies and responsibility. Apr 7, 2011 930
Rhodesia; last outpost of the British Empire 1890-1980, 2d ed. Book review Apr 1, 2011 106
German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908: Influential Strangers. Gardner, Helen Book review Apr 1, 2011 438
America's fading Middle East influence. Bar, Shmuel Apr 1, 2011 5480
How to know if you suffer Arabitis? Mar 30, 2011 303
United States Mint Introduces 2011 Native American $1 Coin at Bicultural Museum in Plymouth, Mass. Mar 25, 2011 715
Forebears: stories from the British Empire 1850-1930. Cowburn, Lorna Mar 22, 2011 231
Sadhana Naithani, The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics. Korom, Frank J. Mar 22, 2011 1023
Speaker: US Authorities Lack Correct Understanding of Region. Feb 22, 2011 298
Arthur R. Miller, Special Counsel at Milberg LLP, Honored as Commander of the Order of British Empire. Feb 17, 2011 384
Abraham Lincoln wanted to deport slaves to British colonies, reveals book. Feb 12, 2011 521
Goa: Uniquely Indian. Feb 9, 2011 1230
Bridgetown: U.S. Mission engages seven strategic partners. William Couch,; Namita Biggins; Schaller, Joseph Feb 1, 2011 1242
Southerners hope for support from North to build institutions. Jan 5, 2011 1680
MP: Decision to Cut Ties with Britain Iranian Nations' Response to Enmities. Dec 29, 2010 648
Contrary to many expectations the South will win -- Part I. Dec 26, 2010 660
Expanding the frontiers of Western Jamaica through minor atlantic ports in the eighteenth century. Hunt, Nadine Report Dec 22, 2010 7572
Colonial and postcolonial state and development in Africa. Muiu, Mueni wa Report Dec 22, 2010 8225
Nigeria: learning from the past to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Kalu, Kelechi A. Report Dec 22, 2010 10291
Inconsolable pains beyond the passions for self-determination. Nov 24, 2010 4050
Churchill's secret war; the British empire and the ravaging of India during World War II. Brief review Nov 1, 2010 133
Axis and Allied intervention, collaboration in Iran. Aboul-Enein, Basil H.; Aboul-Enein, Faisal H.; Thornton, J.D. Nov 1, 2010 3880
Were the Welsh really empire builders? Professor Huw Bowen of Swansea University looks at the British Empire and examines ways in which Wales was involved in, and affected by, the conquest of India. Oct 2, 2010 252
The neglect of Baudin's manuscript charts of the Victorian coastline. Eccleston, Gregory C. Oct 1, 2010 12478
British rule: making it up as they went along. Sep 25, 2010 2245
Bear with us guv. Sep 5, 2010 499
Dutch contributions to religious toleration. Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis Essay Sep 1, 2010 13803
Home as postcolonial trope in the fiction of V.S. Naipaul. Balfour, Robert Sep 1, 2010 8669
Dan's British trek across heritage sites; Header. Aug 23, 2010 213
Tonight's TV. Aug 23, 2010 377
Afghanistan marks Independence Day as war escalates. Aug 19, 2010 659
Independent nation; the evolution of Australian foreign policy 1901-1946; Australia, the British empire and the origins of Australian-Indonesian relations. Book review Aug 1, 2010 158
The economic roots of the American "zigzag": knives, forks, and British mercantilism. Lybbert, Travis J. Jul 1, 2010 4336
The Mahatma's message: Gandhi's contributions to the art and science of communication. Singhal, Arvind Report Jul 1, 2010 2710
Indigenous (re)memory and resistance: video works by Dana Claxton. Taunton, Carla Critical essay Jun 22, 2010 7474
Domestic colonialism: the overlooked significance of Robert L. Allen's contributions. Calderon-Zaks, Michael Critical essay Jun 22, 2010 6536
Nkrumah, African awakening and neo-colonialism: how Black America awakened Nkrumah and Nkrumah awakened Black America. Nimako, Kwame Critical essay Jun 22, 2010 11315
How Black Awakening in Capitalist America laid the foundation for a New Internal Colonialism Theory. Pinderhughes, Charles Critical essay Jun 22, 2010 4972
God and American expansionism. Robinson, Charles M., III Essay Jun 22, 2010 8477
Who drives the Tea Party? Blanchard, Bruce Letter to the editor Jun 21, 2010 330
Queen Elizabeth birthday honours for two residents. Jun 15, 2010 430
Translating matrimony in Southern Rhodesia's native marriage laws and the cultural disruption of the Shona community: a theoretical expansion of the work of Diana Jeater. Kapell, Matthew Wilhelm Report Jun 1, 2010 4113
Modernizing the colonial labor subject in India. DeSousa, Valerian Report Jun 1, 2010 7275
A whale of a time before hitting the desert A long and not so winding road ahead for travellers. May 15, 2010 731
A bad man in Africa: as Zimbabwe celebrated 30 years of independence on 18 April, it was hard to remember that modern Zimbabwe started as a fiefdom of one man, Cecil Rhodes, and a few colleagues, who tricked king Lobengula out of his domain. Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, mathematician and historian, tells the story even better in freedom and organisation, published by Routledge. Russell, Bertrand May 1, 2010 1743
1960: Africa's year of freedom: in one momentous year, 17 African nations gained independence from European colonial rule. Wines, Michael Apr 19, 2010 2231
Tea Party a brewing movement: the Tea Party Movement is in its youth, but with its growing strength apparent, various people, entities, and groups are trying both to diminish it and control it. Wolverton, Joe, II Cover story Apr 12, 2010 3289
Red Arrows show definitely cancelled. Apr 1, 2010 327
Unpacking settler colonialism's urban strategies: Indigenous peoples in Victoria, British Columbia, and the transition to a settler-colonial city. Edmonds, Penelope Report Mar 22, 2010 17884
"Toronto has no history!" Indigeneity, settler colonialism, and historical memory in Canada's largest city. Freeman, Victoria Report Mar 22, 2010 15636
Trespassers Forgiven: Memoirs of Imperial Service in an Age of Independence. Book review Mar 22, 2010 179
"Ex unitate vires": elite consolidation and the union of South Africa, 1902-10. Campbell-Miller, Jill Essay Mar 22, 2010 9920
African musicology: a bibliographical guide to Nigerian art music (1927-2009). Sadoh, Godwin Obituary Mar 1, 2010 7275
THE END OF THE EMPIRE; Music hall stars lit up the stage of popular venue. Feb 13, 2010 605
Present day South Asian woes legacy of British Raj: Pak UK envoy. Feb 13, 2010 264
Carrying america forward: with the prospect of the financial insolvency of the United States becoming more likely with every dollar added to the U.S. deficit, Americans worry about the country's future. Scaliger, Charles Column Feb 1, 2010 3728
Remembering the dismembered continent; on the 125th anniversary of the Berlin conference of 1884-85 that fragmented Africa, Ayi Kwei Armah looks at where African society is today and where we could take it tomorrow. Armah, Ayi Kwei Feb 1, 2010 4377
Three victories and a defeat; the rise and fall of the first British Empire, 1714-1783. Book review Feb 1, 2010 133
On borderline between shores: Space and place in Season of Migration to the North. Velez, Mike Critical essay Jan 1, 2010 6087
Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansion and Nationalism, 1848-1884. Manias, Chris Book review Dec 22, 2009 889
The afterlife is not dead: spiritualism, postcolonial theory, and early Christian studies. Buell, Denise Kimber Essay Dec 1, 2009 5116
MP calls forWales, the final colony, to finally take control of its own destiny; Price says the vote on lawmaking powers is key to country's future. Nov 17, 2009 891
Military settlers: the men of the Royal Veteran Companies and Royal Staff Corps (1825). Wright, Christine Nov 1, 2009 8167
About the excellence of the Georgian English colony in comparison with other colonies, by Johannes Agustus Urlsperger, 1747. Brief article Nov 1, 2009 186
Empire, politics, and the creation of the 1935 India Act; last act of the Raj. Brief article Nov 1, 2009 157
Rod Stewart carries Commander of British Empire medal everywhere. Oct 22, 2009 158
Between the Eternal City and the Holy City: Rome, Jerusalem, and the imperial ideal in Britain. Reisenauer, Eric M. Report Sep 22, 2009 12298
For God, king, and country: loyalism on the eastern shore of Maryland during the American Revolution. Neville, Barry Paige Essay Sep 22, 2009 12169
The evolution and relevance of autonomous communities in contemporary Igboland: an essay in local governance. Uzoigwe, G.N. Essay Sep 22, 2009 5541
The Implications of Growing Indonesian Assertiveness on ASEAN. Sep 21, 2009 911
Bratton honored by U.K. for his good work AWARD: Outgoing LAPD chief becomes Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Sep 12, 2009 284
The empire's ghost returns. Ray, Carina Aug 1, 2009 2454
Mau Mau ever-present past. Wa Ngugi, Mukoma Aug 1, 2009 1838
Mau Mau raw British brutality. Patel, Zarina Aug 1, 2009 877
Mau Mau a test case for justice. Parshall, Nicole K. Viewpoint essay Aug 1, 2009 727
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783. Farrell, Kevin W. Book review Jun 22, 2009 957
Baptist contributions to American life. Flynt, J. Wayne Jun 22, 2009 3175
P. J. Marshall, The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c. 1750-1783. Sewell, Keith C. Jun 22, 2009 982
"Born out of my ownself": (re)claiming the self in Doris Lessing's Under My Skin, Volume 1, 1919-1949. Javangwe, Tasiyana D. Jun 1, 2009 5560
Another side of paradise: Mauritian novelist Lindsey Collen looks back on her country's recent past to see how class strife disguises itself as culture clash. Collen, Lindsey May 1, 2009 1527
The British tortured Obama's grandfather: today, the British go abroad to preach human rights to other nations. But not too long ago, they were torturing freedom fighters all over their colonies in Africa, including President Barack Obama's Kenyan grandfather. Duodu, Cameron Feb 1, 2009 1626
Stealing a nation: an open letter by Dr Sean Carey, a research fellow at cronem, Roehampton university, to the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, about "one of the worst violations of fundamental human rights perpetrated by the UK in the 20th century"--the land grab in the Chagos archipelago. Carey, Sean Jan 1, 2009 735
Aspects of peripheral modernisms. Parry, Benita Critical essay Jan 1, 2009 10815
The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire. Dustin, Lheisa Book review Jan 1, 2009 1058
Bhutan's middle way: frontier, borderland and bordered land. Long, Kelly Report Jan 1, 2009 9016
Empire and risk: Edwardian financiers, Australia, and Canada, c. 1899-1914. Dilley, Andrew Richard Jan 1, 2009 5277
Negara Brunei Darussalam: obituary 2009. Horton, A.V.M. Jan 1, 2009 7884
Feridas escondidas e sonhos conflitantes em Butterfly Burning de Yvonne Vera. Gagiano, Annie Ensayo critico Jan 1, 2009 9153
Colonialism, biblical world-making, and temporalities in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative. Johnson, Sylvester A. Critical essay Dec 1, 2008 10065
Irreverent empire: Anglican inattention in an Atlantic world. Blosser, Jacob M. Essay Sep 1, 2008 15513
Picturing Sindh: British representations. Raza, Rosemary Sep 1, 2008 3354
Kalachi, Kurrachee, Karachi: biography of a metropolis. Bhavnani, Nandita Sep 1, 2008 3565
Becoming 'European' (2); West Indian officers in British West Africa were treated as "Europeans" by the colonial governments. this led to a conflict in 1904 over their employment in the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Ray, Carina Aug 1, 2008 1587
Becoming 'European': West Indian officers in British West Africa were categorised as "Europeans" by the colonial governments and given better salaries and working conditions than the "Natives". This is part one of a two part series exploring the fraught history of West Indian "European" colonial officers in British West Africa. Ray, Carina Jul 1, 2008 1495
Restoration poetry and the failure of English Tangier. Beach, Adam R. Critical essay Jun 22, 2008 8539
Habitat restoration: an aspect of sustainable management. Thorpe, H.R. Jun 22, 2008 3342
Horse power: for thousands of years, people have bred horses to meet their needs. In the process, they've also altered human history. Carney, Elizabeth May 12, 2008 890
Should Africa be grateful for colonialism? A British-born South African columnist, David Bullard, thinks Africa should be grateful for colonialism. But his black editor is fed up with his bile and has fired him, creating another race controversy in South Africa, reports Pusch Commey from Johannesburg. Commey, Pusch May 1, 2008 1727
Of missess and Tuan Kechils: colonial childhood memoirs as cultural mediation in British Malaya. Baena, Rosalia Critical essay Jan 1, 2008 8907
Florida land titles and British, not just Spanish, origins. Boggs, Glenn Jul 1, 2007 6834
Barbaric custom and colonial science. Boddy, Janice Dec 1, 2006 10913
An archive-junkie with great tales: the 1919 race riots in Britain provoked the emergence of a publicly articulated critique of the double standard which allowed white men to have their way with African women in the colonies, while black men were beaten in Britain for marrying white women. Not fair; so I became an archive junkie. Ray, Carina Dec 1, 2006 817
Stealing a nation, Part 2. Pilger, John Dec 1, 2006 3440
"Passion's empire": Sydney Owenson's "Indian venture," Phoenicianism, Orientalism, and binarism. Franklin, Michael J. Jun 22, 2006 8187
Cannibalism in the colonial imaginary: a reading of Joseph Conrad's "Falk" *. Sewlall, Harry Critical essay Jun 1, 2006 6860
1947: the end of the Raj: thirty years of nonviolent protests led by Gandhi forced the British out of the Indian subcontinent, and gave birth to both India and Pakistan. Edidin, Peter Jan 30, 2006 1916
British missionary publishing, missionary celebrity, and empire. Johnston, Anna Sep 22, 2005 9241
Semi-detached empire: suburbia and imperial discourse in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Kuchta, Todd Sep 22, 2005 11822
The empire strikes back: Dickens on the rioting colonists. McCarthy, Patrick J. Sep 22, 2005 3004
The colours of fiction: from Indigo/blue to Maroon/Black (a study of Miranda's story in Indigo). Li, Cao Jan 1, 2005 6895
Beyond the pale: women, cultural contagion, and narrative hysteria in Kipling, Orwell, and Forster. Blackstock, Alan Critical essay Jan 1, 2005 8759
Seychelles, a fascinating history: Seychelles is a wonderful place. Baffour Ankomah looks at the history of how Britain came to run it as part of the empire, thanks to the then mysterious coco de mer fruits which grew exclusively on the islands. Ankomah, Baffour Oct 1, 2004 2024
Negotiating the landscape: travel, transaction, and the mapping of colonial India. Tickell, Alex Jan 1, 2004 5792
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (dir. Ashutosh Gowariker, 2001). Brown, Rebecca M. Critical essay Jan 1, 2004 1344
A Passage to India, Colonial Humanism and recent postcolonial theory: a response to Lidan Lin. Fincham, Gail Oct 1, 2003 8690
The children of the empire: anti-imperialism in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. Toth, Gyorgy Critical essay Jan 1, 2003 12243
India and the buildings of the Raj. Ninian, Alex Nov 1, 2002 3578
Quebec Conference. Oct 1, 2002 850
Quebec aftermath. Oct 1, 2002 989
London Conference. Oct 1, 2002 603
British North America. Oct 1, 2002 706
A checklist of British Borneo manuscript and photographic materials in Rhodes House Library, Oxford. (Brief Communications). Reece, Bob Bibliography Jan 1, 2001 4463
Who was who in Madeira at the time of the second British occupation in 1807. Newitt, M.D.D. Jan 1, 1999 5969

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