Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea ...

Barely a year goes by in the UK without a public figure igniting a furore by arguing that colonialism somehow benefitted the people it oppressed. But our new book, “Authoritarian Africa: Repression, ...

Empires have existed throughout human history, established by imperialist civilisations including the Romans, Mongols and Assyrians. Colonialism refers not just to the logistical process of ...

Jonathan Fisher receives funding from the Newton Fund/British Academy and WhatsApp. He has previously received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social ...