Australian History and Society

The past decade has witnessed much research and writing on the cultural legacies of European imperialism. This collection of essays is a work of criticism on the cultures of imperialism. Fundamental to the editors' conceptualization is the premise that while colonialism may be a thing of the past for the majority of t…

This chapter discusses Turkey&s;s relationship to postcoloniality and reviews the historical background in order to explain why the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has come to increasingly rely on postcolonial concepts to justify its policies. It focuses on academic knowledge production in Turkey and ho…

As today, Middle East was not just only a geographical region to define its location in the world era for Britain. The 19 th century was the base of the British interests in the Middle East, with the increasing economic resources during the fall of the Ottoman Empire. It is equally clear that one of the significant as…

This book draws on the literatures of transnationalism and diaspora studies to explore the ways in which the policies of emigrant-sending countries have an influence on how emigrants politically engage on issues related to their homelands. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with policy makers, diplomats, bureaucra…

As today, Middle East was not just only a geographical region to define its location in the world era for Britain.The 19 th century was the base of the British interests in the Middle East, with the increasing economic resources during the fall of the Ottoman Empire.It is equally clear that one of the significant aspe…

• FAHRİYE BEGÜM YILDIZELİ

The Russo-Japanese War in 1905 was interpreted throughout the world as the first victory of an Asian nation belonging to the yellow race against a major white and Christian Western empire.1 In fact, the world-historical significance of the Japanese victory over Russia was noted by a wide array of contemporary observer…

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• GÖRKEM NEŞE DESTUR

Abstract Taking as a starting point two strikes in colonial Cyprus in the 1930s—the miners' strike in 1936 in which both Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots were involved and the all-female spinners' strike in 1938—this paper looks at how the labor movement deeply transformed the political landscape of the island. In…

Published by the Princeton University Press in 2014, this book ‘GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History’ written by Diane Coyle is a seminal work that helps understand how GDP has played a pivotal role throughout the last century in reorganizing the global economic and political relations. Cognizant of the multidimensio…

• İSA YILMAZ

This article records and offers to interpret a parallel hardening of British and Italian colonial governances in the Eastern Mediterranean in the interwar period. It focuses on the cases of the Dodecanese, an Italian ‘Possedimento’ since 1912, and Cyprus, a British dependency since 1878, lying on the geographical and…

• ALEXIS SERGE CHARALABOS RAPPAS

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• HAKAN ERKAL