Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom

A striking new interpretation of colonial policing and political violence in three empires between the two world wars.

A provocative, breath-taking, and concise relational history of colonialism over the past 500 years, from the dawn of the New World to the twenty-first century.

“Coolie” is a generic category for the “unskilled” manual labour. The offering of services for hire had various pre-colonial lineages. In the nineteenth

Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.