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Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-e

This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperia

In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a hu