An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the
context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding …

Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that
have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth …

For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a large part of Asia, most of Africa, and
the islands of the Pacific and the Caribbean were imperial possessions. These large …

Did colonial rule “construct” the “martial races” or do these groups have an innate cultural
disposition toward military service? Despite the centrality of this question for evaluating …

Despite extensive criticisms of mass surveillance and mobilization by civil liberties and
digital rights activists, surveillance has paradoxically been extended and legalized in the …

This is the first work to systematically examine the British occupation of Indonesia after the
Second World War. The occupation by British-Indian forces between 1945 and 1946 bridged …

Loyalty is part of the glue that holds relationships together in times of difficulty. Surprisingly,
however, hardly any literature exists on the role of loyalty in International Relations. The …

Die aktuellen Interventionen westlicher Mächte in Drittweltländern haben vieles gemeinsam
mit den unzähligen Gewaltkonflikten an der Peripherie seit der Eroberung Amerikas im 16 …

How does the trajectory of precolonial political institutions affect contemporary ethnic
conflict? I argue that ethnic groups that were governed by centralized political institutions in …

After decades of refusal, neglect, and tacit admittance, the service of Indigenous people in
the national armed forces of settler colonial states such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand …