Book Cover After Barbary by Timothy Mason Roberts
16 Mar 2026

Book Spotlight: “After Barbary: Algeria’s Roles in the French and American Empires, Ithaca 2025”

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American Imperialism in Conversation with Other Empires My book explores how Algeria played an important role in French-American relations from 1830, when France first occupied Algeria, through the early 1970s, in the first years of Algerian independence from French colonial authority.[1] The book studies American imperialism in a novel way by placing the origins and evolution of American imperialism in … Read More

19 Feb 2025

Book Spotlight “Prisms of Work: Labour, Recruitment and Command in German East Africa, Berlin 2024”

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Global Labour History My book examines labour regimes in the colony of German East Africa (GEA) before World War I.[1] It uses three case studies: the construction of the Central Railway (1905–1916), the Otto Plantation in Kilossa (1907–1916), and the paleontological Tendaguru Expedition in the colony’s southern Lindi district (1909–1911). Combining global labour history with colonial and business history, the … Read More

20 Dec 2023

Book Spotlight “Nationaliser le panafricanisme. La décolonisation au Sénégal, en Haute-Volta et au Ghana (1945-1962) [Nationalising Pan-Africanism: Decolonisation in Senegal, Upper Volta and Ghana (1945-1962)], Paris 2023”

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At the end of the Second World War, a new international order was to be defined, requiring reconfigurations in and around colonial societies. Empires becoming obsolete as a form of power were to be dismantled and colonial societies were longing for a fundamental change. As the socio-political order was being redefined, how was the new belonging imagined by African people? … Read More

4 Oct 2023

Book Spotlight: “Nordics in Motion: Transimperial Mobilities and Global Experiences of Nordic Colonialism, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 51/ 3, (2023)”

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This special issue on Nordic transimperial careers and experiences investigates Nordic people operating in the world of empires ranging from Southeast Asia to Africa, and from Europe to the Caribbean and North America.[1] It focuses on border-crossing individuals, addressing inter-imperial questions of race, otherness, and the civilizing mission, and tying into existing networks, while seeking to create new ones. Nordics … Read More

29 Jun 2023

Book Spotlight “Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires, Ithaca 2022”

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Born in 1885 into a modest Romanian-speaking family in Transylvania, Liviu Rebreanu needed to learn both Hungarian and German to acquire a basic education in what was then the Kingdom of Hungary, and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After getting higher education, he also learned the “foreign languages” taught through the imperial school system. To become a Romanian-language writer, he … Read More

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