National liberation and independence

This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.

Russland – ein Land der Extreme und Kontraste, das auf einzigartige Weise urbanen Fortschritt und ländliche Tradition vereint.

This Handbook inverts the lens on development, asking what Indigenous communities across the globe hope and build for themselves.

In this remarkable revisionist study, Webb shows that English imperial policy was shaped by a powerful and sustained militaristic, autocratic tradition that openly defined English empire as the imposition of state control by force on dependent people.

While Northern Rhodesia was preparing for independence as the Republic of Zambia in 1964, impoverished villages in the remote north east of the country were divided by a bitter conflict fuelled by apparently irreconcilable political and religious convictions.

An incisive analysis of religious conflict in South Asia, which it is argued arises out of weak political and state structures.

Providing coherence in understanding the role that education and higher education played in the colonizing purposes of the rich nations of the North, this book draws from multiple geopolitical spaces across the world to consider how epistemic injustice has characterized colonial higher education systems.

In Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater, Peilin Liang develops a theory of bodily transformation.

Palestine of the Jews (1919) examines the history of Jewish Palestine, from 4,000 years ago to the early twentieth century and the Balfour Declaration.

As imperial political authority was increasingly challenged, sometimes with violence, locally recruited police forces became the front-line guardians of alien law and order.

This book, first published in 1991, moves beyond sensational headlines to explore how Middle Eastern men and women speak and feel about the societies in which they live.

After a million deaths and twice that number injured, after the destruction of much of the infrastructure of Iran and Iraq, disruption of trade throughout the Gulf and the involvement of the USA and USSR, was the Gulf War a pointless exercise, a futile conflict which achieved nothing and left the combatants at the end of it all back in exactly the same position from which they started in 1980?

"e;Modern sports"e; were introduced to Asia in the late nineteenth century as an innovation from the West, concurrently with the development of modern society in Asia.

Remodelling to Prepare for Independence: The Philippine Commonwealth, Decolonisation, Cities and Public Works, c.

Christhu Doss examines how the colonial construct of communalism through the fault lines of the supposed religious neutrality, the hunger for the bread of life, the establishment of exclusive village settlements for the proselytes, the rhetoric of Victorian morality, the booby-traps of modernity, and the subversion of Indian cultural heritage resulted in a radical reorientation of religious allegiance that eventually created a perpetual detachment between proselytes and the "e;others.

This timely work investigates the possibility of unyoking and decolonising African university knowledges from colonial relics.

Through a radical reading of Hegel's oeuvre, The Architecture of Freedom sets forth a theory of open borders centered on a new interpretation of the German philosopher's related conceptions of language and the aesthetic, mastery and servitude, and subjectivity and the state.

An innovative, interdisciplinary anthology arguing that we are unable to fully understand slavery - then and now - without attending to children''s roles in slavery''s machinations.

Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents.

In 1949, Ireland left the Commonwealth and the British Empire began its long fragmentation.

From the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, classical forms and ideas have been central to an American nationalist aesthetic.

On 9 July 2011, South Sudan became an independent state after more than half a century of civil conflict wrought with human rights abuse.

The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had createdAmericans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created.

Ghosts of Archive draws on the discourses of deconstruction, intersectionality and archetypal psychology to mount an argument that archive is fundamentally and structurally spectral and that the work of archive is justice.

A history of global decolonisation and anticolonialism, told through East and Central African activists in the 1950s and 1960s.

"e;Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings"e; gives an offbeat account of Andrew Stuart's wide-ranging experiences.

Imperialism and Social Reform (1960) examines British social-imperialism and the development of social-imperial thought: the promotion of a 'people's imperialism', or the support of the working classes for the imperialist system.

The modern Arab world is faced with a serious problem in the imbalance between human and natural resources.

The birth of the Greek nation in 1830 was a pivotal event in modern European history and in the history of nation-building in general.

The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards.

Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies.

Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth-century's most influential theorists and activists, whose work fighting against colonialism and imperialism has been an inspiration to today's decolonization and anti-racism movements.

There have been few more remarkable events than the European colonisation and decolonisation of Africa.

Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013.

This is an absorbing and authentic account, first published in 1986, of the history and traditional way of life of the Al-Dhafir bedouins of north-eastern Arabia, based on a study of their traditions, Arabic historical annals and the reports of western travellers over the past two hundred years.

Refusing the Favor tells the little-known story of the Spanish-Mexican women who saw their homeland become part of New Mexico.

This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory.

A wide-ranging account of French literature of the 1950s and 1960s showing how politically engaged leading writers were.