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The article discusses papers presented in the journal's special section that examined the history of India, including David Gilmartin's paper on the judicial treatment of caste in India, Sujit Sivasundaram's assessment of the impact of colonialism on India and Mithi Mukherjee's exploration of freedom in the Gandhian nonviolent movement.

The article provides an account of an expedition sent by Tuskegee Institute to German Togo during the first decade of the twentieth century. Through the expedition, American cotton varieties were introduced to Togo. Moreover, the expedition had an ideological mission which is to impose the American New South Image of the Negro on the Togolese. In this paper, the author studies the production of commodities, identities and social scientific knowledge in terms of practice and class conflict by combining psychoanalytic and Marxist approaches. Furthermore, it explores the interplay of intention, policies, misunderstanding and violence that has been part of the history of imperialism.

The article presents an examination of 18th-century British imperialism across three different colonial frontiers in an effort to better understand British colonial governance and state-making. It examines the British holding of Fort Marlborough on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the South Atlantic island St. Helena and the British sugar colony Jamaica. It discusses issues related to governance, discipline and population and examines topics related to the importance of white male privilege, the techniques of colonial governance and local variations of authority that were developed in each colonial setting.

The article presents an examination of cross-cultural lies told between American Indians and European imperial leaders in North America. It discusses the social impact of the lies these groups told each other and examines how lies influenced the imperial relationship and power structures in North American. It discusses how lies allowed Indians to shape the narrative of empire in North America and how these lies eventually influenced policies and behaviors in the colonies. It explores the influence of lies by examining the death of Creek Indian Acorn Whistler.

The article examines how the 1931 death and settlement of Baghadai Jew Silas Aaron Hardoon's estate provides insight on issues related to role Jews played in the colonial process, the legal meaning of Great Britain's British Protected Person category and imperialism during the interwar period. It explores the role social class played in the colonial process, it discusses the Baghdadi Jewish diaspora of the 19th and 20th centuries and examines the shift towards sovereignty and nationalization of individuals that occurred in the 20th century.

The article presents an examination of two historical controversies that involve concepts related to mass human migrations, human settlement, imperialism, tribal societies and barbarians. It explores the similarities, differences and errors that have arisen in the study of warfare and migration among early 19th century African societies and the impact they had on the social conditions in South African under the apartheid regime and the role of external barbarians and their migrations following the demise of the Western Roman Empire in the establishment of European nations.

The article discusses the international negotiations in the League of Nations leading up to the granting of independence to the British mandate territory of Iraq in 1932. The diplomacy of Great Britain in seeking to emancipate Iraq while retaining beneficial economic and military rights in the country is discussed in terms of competing visions of international organization among the great powers in the League. British rule in Iraq is discussed, as is the role of King Faisal I, and debates in the interwar period about imperialism, sovereignty, and Arab nationalism.

The article presents an examination freedom in India and applies the critical category of difference in its assessment of the Gandhian nonviolent resistance to British colonialism. It discusses the application of Western concepts in explaining the historical development of India and examines how this practice, which is grounded in Western historical experiences, creates negative conceptualizations of Indian development. It explores how the type freedom sought by the Gandhian movement differed from Western concepts of freedom and examines the historical roots of India's notion of freedom.

The article presents an examination of the influence that British colonization had on the island nation of Sri Lanka. The article explores how islands have been conceptualized by governments and scholars and examines the impact that being an island had on the British colonization of Sri Lanka. It discusses topics related to island identity and indigenous and discusses how British colonizers dealt with these issues. It explores the divisions drawn between islanders and mainlanders by the British and discusses Sri Lanka's historical relationship with assimilation and migration.

The article presents an examination into the history of mental depression and suicide in 20th-century colonial Africa. Introductory comments are given noting the reversal of previously accepted research suggesting that suicide rates were low in the continent. An overview is then given examining the public health history of Nyasaland (Malawi), citing the scarcity of studies on the topic in the contemporary research literature. Further discussion is offered analyzing the social attitudes and implications of the colonial views towards African mental health and social life.

The author proposes that historians examine the history of the British and Spanish Atlantic empires through the perspective "entangled" history rather than comparative history. The author believes that although historians use comparative history to rise above nationalistic agendas in Anglo-American and Spanish American historiographies, there are limitations in comparative history. The author claims that entangled histories are concerned with entanglements, or interconnections and mutual influences, in society, and not on the comparability of history. The author uses the history of the British and Spanish in North America and the story of British quartermaster Peter Vezian and black Spanish prisoner Francisco Menéndez to support his theories.

In this article the author examines the geopolitical issues arising from the independence movements in Latin America in the 19th century. The desire for independence from Spanish imperialism in Latin American colonies began with a decline in Spanish fortunes following the invasion of Spain by Napoleon and the subsequent Peninsular war. The impact of 19th century British naval power on the stability of Latin America is assessed. The article discusses the influence of France and the United States in the region.

This article discusses the nature of the histories written about colonialism and postcolonialism in East Africa. Much of the author's analysis focuses on the use of the term 'modern' and what that means to the region. Within this context, a focus on the notion of public healing is examined, and its place in the both the cultural assimilation and the resistance to colonial power. Healing in this region was separated between illnesses of God, or natural illness, and illness by human action, meaning sorcery and witchcraft.

The article demonstrates that the activities of the modern state are shaped by cultural imagination as experienced by the decision of Great Britain to use the air force to establish and keep its rule on Arabia after it defeated the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. It describes the popular views in Great Britain about Arabia. The activities of British secret agents are discussed. There are several scholars and historians who share the idea that modern state activities are shaped and influenced by cultural imagination.

The article discusses the role of historical understanding in nationalist discourses in colonial India. The author challenges the idea that modern history writing was state-centered and based on rational-positivistic methodology. Moreover, an examination of the relationship of rational-positivist history with romantic, popular history is presented. The author incorporates intellectual history with the history of nationalism and its culture. It focuses on colonial and emergent nations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Explores the cultural history of state formation and African resistance in Transkei, South Africa. Role played by bureaucrats in imperial expansion into the Transkei during the nineteenth century; Phases of the imperial expansion during the Transkei colonial rule; Symbol of the mytho-historical relationship between authority and the land; Factors attributed to the development of African resistance in the early 1880s.

Analyzes the 1800-1814 annexations of parts of the Italian peninsula to the Napoleonic empire, which was known to contemporaries as the reunited departments. Analysis of the consequences of a swift change of regime in a definable region where geography was a seminal influence on political culture; Views of Anthony Giddens regarding the significance of regionalization in the development of social theory; Status of Italy during the Napoleonic period; Factors that are significant in the context of powerful states capable of changing political geography through conquest; Background on the Napoleonic imperialism in Italy during the seventeenth century.

Reviews several studies which analyzed how Europeans portrayed the Ottoman Empire. Framework of Ottoman orientalism; Description of a classical Ottoman imperial paradigm; Transformation of the imperial paradigm.

Criticizes the tendency of scholars to analyze imperialism as either discourse or elite decision-making. Consequences of such approach; Analysis of Algeria's War for Independence; Need to de-center the Cold War in post-World War II diplomatic history.