This volume brings together some of the most important papers on the development of the Third World.

This collection includes contributions from some of the major authors in the field.

This edition (3rd in 1987) synthesizes recent scholarship, especially in the areas of prehistory and the conflicts of the early 19th century, while the country's internal political story is updated to the release of Nelson Mandela, and its ...

In 1838 Lord Melbourne's Whig government in Britain sent the radical Lord Durham to Canada as Governor-General to deal with a colony in the aftermath of a rebellion.

Provides a comprehensive chronological narrative of the history of the British Empire between 1815 and 1914, together with a more theoretical and reflective concluding chapter, thus giving an overview of British policy and action which ...

In 1990, Kerala on the southwestern coast has India's lowest infant mortality, longest life expectancy and highest female literacy.