Books in the Gutenberg-e series

Tells how Europeans managed to establish colonies throughout the globe not because of technological superiority but because their states sponsored overseas colonialism whereas Asian states did not. This book shows how European trade, protection, and occupation played a central role in Taiwan's colonization and incorporation by the Chinese empire.

Surveys the materials and experimental practices of radioactivity research in early twentieth century Vienna, focusing on radioactive materials, instruments, women's work in physics, and gendered skills. This title shows how experimental cultures in radioactivity are constructed and reshaped by politics as well as scientists of different genders.

Exhibitions of Chinese artifacts were a rare occurrence when the Chinese controlled their own representations in America. This title demonstrates that exhibitions of Chinese artifacts held great popular appeal.

This study of eighteenth-century French playwriting and playwrights reviews individual authorial strategies for "self-fashioning" and the playwrights' intellectual, social, and institutional contexts, using research in original sources and analysis of the contentious historiography and competing analytic contructs in cultural theory and criticism.

What was the reality of convivencia? The local laity and religious practice in the Spanish villages studied by Mary Halavais actually made little distinction between old and new Christians. The marginalization of the new-the Moriscos-was imposed by central authorities; it did not emerge from local antagonisms.

Propaganda, a term invented in or near the the French Revolution, was artfully crafted and used by the young and very ambitious emporer-to-be, as the author shows in this unique study.

The creation of convents was conceived by the Spanish to further the conversion and spiritual conquest of all of the populations. However, to the native emerging upper class, the religious orders quickly became potent symbols of the colony's prosperity, modernization, and power.

Relying on rarely used sources in English and Telugu, Michael Katten explores in detail at the local level, the distinctive forms of identity and the ways they emerged as the indigenous peoples interacted with colonial leaders in southern India.

An elite community in India, neither Anglicized nor traditional, shaped instead by diaspora and capitalist enterprise, is the subject of Anne Hardgrove's research.

This analysis of the general subject of WWI prisoners of war focuses on the role of a non-governmental association in confronting the increasingly chaotic conditions of East Europe.