Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

As a top 20 global economy and tech powerhouse, a liberal democracy on the frontline of autocratic pressure and a pivotal component in the free and open Indo-Pacific, the future security of Taiwan has enormous ramifications for today's global order. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Age Book of the Year 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781863956000Author James BoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc.Weight(grams)...

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Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the course...

A new account of global justice that recovers anticolonial thought for resisting a neocolonial agePoliticians and activists today turn to the language of decolonization to call attention to such issues as cultural and linguistic decline, exploitative...

In this book, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach studies how Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891-1956), W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), Mohammed Iqbal (1877-1938), Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) diagnose the epistemic oppression they perceive and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195839445Author Himani BannerjiFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika Books

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638041801Author Sonita SarkerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

This volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches, encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and cultural...

It is common to define Europe by its democratic, scientific, religious, and cultural traditions. But in What is European?, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues that the search for Europe's essence has taken a troubling turn. He shows that many traditional ideas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039058064Author Laleh KhaliliFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Knopf CanadaPublisher Random House Canada

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The world-historical significance of the Haitian Revolution is now firmly established in mainstream history. Yet Haiti's nineteenth-century...

Explores the conflict between capitalism and tradition in an immigrant community.A philosophical anthropology of everyday experience, this book is also a deeply informed and thought-provoking reflection on the work of cultural critique. States of...

Originally published in 1934 this volume contains Journals, extracts from Journals, and narratives, written on board the Dragon and Hosiander by Thomas Best and various other persons, including Ralph Standish and Ralph Croft. It also has with Best's...

This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of social scientists and cultural experts to investigate the concept of transformative development. Contributors discuss the transformative development vision with a focus on the...

This book documents the political and cosmological processes through which the idea of 'total territorial rule' came into being in the context of early- to mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Analysing ideas at the core of the modern international...

Nigeria's Republic at Sixty offers a comprehensive analysis of Nigeria's six decades as a republic. Through a meticulous exploration across twenty chapters, this pathbreaking book critically assesses Nigeria's achievements and obstacles, and presents a...

Recent years have seen the Israeli state become ever more extreme in its treatment of Palestinians, manifested both in legislation stripping Palestinians of their rights and in the escalating scale and violence of the Israeli occupation. But this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838900021Author Zhuang YanFormat PaperbackImprint ACA Publishing LimitedPublisher ACA Publishing Limited

The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory is a pioneering resource that expands the epistemological and geographical horizons of decolonial thought. This handbook prioritizes the Global South, fostering North-South and South-South inter-epistemic dialogues...

Invoking Empire examines the histories of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand during the transitional decades between 1860-1900, when each gained some degree of self-government yet still remained within the sovereignty of the British Empire...

This book examines British imperialism in late colonial Burma to study how imperialists attempted to protect their strategic and economic interests after decolonisation: they did so by supporting ethnonationalism. This process resembles the Cold War...

Through close readings of almost twenty autobiographies written after the break-up of the British Empire, the book examines how individuals engage with the changing narrative landscape brought about by decolonisation. It considers the autobiographies...

Spaces of Anticolonialism is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as the capital of Britain's empire in India. It pioneers a spatial governmentality analysis of the networks, mobilizations, and hidden spaces of anticolonial...

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities provides a spatial analysis of the anticolonial governmentalities that emerged in the colonial capital of British India. Reading across imperial and nationalist archives, newspapers, memoirs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881804459Author Greta Lynn UehlingFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881804466Author Greta Lynn UehlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. This book provides a fresh account of the literary and journalistic connection between Hong Kong, China, and Britain, and the different forms of literary production and...

The quarter century after the end of the Second World War and the transfer of power in India in 1947 marked the slow and turbulent dissolution of the British Empire in the Middle East. Seeking to capture the period in its full complexity and...

In Chasing Archipelagic Dreams, David R. Saunders demonstrates that the withdrawal of the British imperial state from Sabah did not result in the decolonization of the territory. From the late 1940s to the 1960s, international anti-colonialism interacted...

This book focuses on alternative definitions of landscape in archaeology, particularly those that explicitly address landscapes' political aspects. In doing so, this volume emphasizes the non-static, dialogic nature of landscape within a community and...

This book delves into the intricate landscape of citizenship practices in Central and Eastern Europe, an area often overlooked in research. Through an interdisciplinary lens, the contributors explore how education and political participation shape...

In Chasing Archipelagic Dreams, David R. Saunders demonstrates that the withdrawal of the British imperial state from Sabah did not result in the decolonization of the territory. From the late 1940s to the 1960s, international anti-colonialism interacted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956954602Author Peter CleggFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control,...

Plague has attained pandemic proportions on three occasions in recorded history. It is within the context of the third, modern pandemic that this book unfolds: an outbreak which took over twelve million lives in India alone. Natasha Sarkar examines...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar's genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. By centring the narratives of survivors of state crimes, collected in...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar's genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. By centring the narratives of survivors of state crimes, collected in...