Books in the International Themes and Issues series

Interrogating the costs and benefits of the game's controversial path to global pre-eminence, Contested Fields shows how and why football matters in the modern world - as part of the social fabric and as a site of political power and resistance.

Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World.

This concise text explores the spread of settler colonies within the British Empire over the course of the nineteenth century, specifically those in New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and Australia.