French colonisers of the Third Republic claimed not to oppress but to liberate, imagining they were spreading republican ideals to the colonies to make a Greate
Almost every people, as we know, has had its legend of a "golden age" and of its return----legends which will hardly be forgotten, however prosaic the world may
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement
This edited collection presents the first critical and historical overview of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa to an English-speaking audience. Photogr
The late nineteenth century saw a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the camera beg