Colonialism and imperialism

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The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britains most humiliating defeat as an imperial power.

The causes of the First World War were disputed before the first shots had even been fired.

Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence.

This book introduces non-specialist readers to the history of how human societies have sought to control, use and exploit our oceans, seas and shorelines over time in different geographical and cultural contexts.

In 1859 the British "e;imported"e; 445 German settler families to strengthen the colonial borders in British Kaffraria (now Eastern Cape) in South Africa.

Although there have been a number of studies on Black resistance, very few of these have focused exclusively on such a wide range of resistance campaigns and strategies within a single volume.

This volume focuses on the cultural memory and mediation of the 1964 Zanzibar revolution, analyzing it,s continuing reverberations in everyday life.

This edited volume is about the rekindled investment in the figure of the first president Julius K.

Sata was a giant figure in Zambia's political landscape for over thirty years.

Pio Gama Pinto was born in Kenya on March 31, 1927.

,It is my duty to take the message of revolt to other[s].

Kenya's War of Independence restores Kenya,s stolen history to its rightful place, stripped of colonial interpretations.

The concepts of democracy and good governance have been at the centre of criticism of governments all over the world.

Rwanda: Rebuilding of a Nation is a story that takes the reader through a sweeping panorama of Rwanda,s history, from its recent past as a nearfailed state to its present as a beacon of hope and successful innovations.

The dawn of the twenty-first century heralded an apparent change of fortunes for most sub-Saharan African economies, with annual growth averaging over 5% for fifteen years.

Whether Africa is developed or not, depends on how and what one addresses.

Words like ,colonialism, and ,empire, were once frowned upon in the U.

Africa,s Best and Worst Presidents seeks to deconstruct the current superstructure that colonialism created and maintains.

As Julius Nyerere once noted, Africa has largely been the continent of peace, though this fact has not been widely publicised.

Two volumes of school textbooks have notably led to self repulsion and attraction by the other peculiar to the black African elite.

Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years.

Professor Russell-Wood's detailed studies of Brazilian social history in the colonial era have long been recognised as model contributions to the history of class, race, gender and religion.

This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its benefits persist.

In this comprehensive, well-reasoned, critical, richly documented and boldly argued account on the Anglophone/Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia crisis, John Forje, a foremost scholar of identity politics in Cameroon, offers insightful explorations and explanations of histories and cultures of telling truth to power that have come to be associated with the people of the English-speaking region of Cameroon.

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Plus de cent ans apr,s la naissance de Um Nyob, nous publions dans cet ouvrage des t,moignages et des r,flexions afin que les morts ne courent plus le risque d',tre une fois de plus tu,s.

This volume confronts black problems rooted in historical and material realities of oppression, colonialism, slavery, corruption, and subjugation in a world deaf to the cries, voices, and visions of heralds of an imminent black revolution.

The Trials and Tribulations of a ZIPRA Soldier is a riveting spider web story of courage, determination, pursuit of justice and survival against all odds.

Tracing recent bouts of globalised Mugabephobia to Robert Mugabe,s refusal to be neoimperially penetrated, this book juxtaposes economic liberalisation with the mounting liberalisation of African orifices.

Colonial scholars have taken immense pleasure in portraying Africans as possessed by spirits but as lacking possession and ownership of their resources, including land.

Right from the enslavement era through to the colonial and contemporary eras, Africans have been denied their human essence , portrayed as indistinct from animals or beasts for imperial burdens, Africans have been historically dispossessed and exploited.

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Kenya,s nationalism during the colonial period was marked by two main characteristics that feature in this book.

This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its benefits persist.

From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain.

Esta obra ha mantenido su vigencia pues representa un enorme esfuerzo de sintesis documental y de ordenamiento logico y cronologico, resultado de un proceso de investigacion documental imposible de superar, dada la calidad del material rescatado por Leon Fernandez.

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire.

Hubo un tiempo, entre 1814 y 1820, en que las independencias hispanoamericanas –ese acontecimiento inaugural que solemos dar por sentado como una consecuencia "natural" de las guerras revolucionarias– peligraron y estuvieron literalmente en suspenso, a punto de verse sofocadas por fuerzas contrarrevolucionarias.

Vivimos sumergidos en la política, bombardeados por noticias nacionales o internacionales que yuxtaponen guerras, elecciones, crisis económicas, delitos de sangre.

This is the first book to present in English a history of post-colonial and diasporic Chinese literatures in Singapore and Malaysia.

This book presents a unique array of insights into Hong Kong's transition to China since the 1 July 1997 handover, from several perspectives around the region.

This book introduces non-specialist readers to the history of how human societies have sought to control, use and exploit our oceans, seas and shorelines over time in different geographical and cultural contexts.

This book looks at facets in the history of capitalism from the Enlightenment period, through the emergence of the American Empire in the Pacific, and to the contemporary era of neoliberal globalization.

This book explores the dilemmas of Georgian foreign policy since independence in 1991.

This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics.

This book challenges conventional wisdom by revealing an extensive and heterogeneous community of foreign businesses in Australia before 1914.

This book focuses on a Pentecostal-Evangelical Kenyah community in central Borneo, a region that crosses the border between Malaysia and Indonesia.

This book presents multidisciplinary critical engagement in Tribe-British relations, the interfacing between colonial mind and tribal worldview, and some of their contemporary implications to conceptualise tribal space and mobilisation at national, regional, and native levels.

The Nightwatchman: Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa brings into focus African men in colonial uniforms as a subject of portraiture.