"This book investigates the substructure of Britain's interests in the Near East and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Essays address themes in British power projection in a geographically wide area and highlight the network of Britons required to sustain the British presence in the Near East"--

"This book presents a multifaceted picture of Indian politics at a time when total war and resurgent anticolonial activism were reshaping assumptions about state power, culture, and resistance"--

In the second half of the 19th century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies. This book challenges the common presumption that those humanitarian concerns only served to conceal vile colonial interests.