National liberation and independence

This book explores the Kuki uprising against the British Empire during the First World War in the northeast frontier of India (then the Assam-Burma frontier).

This book explores the Kuki uprising against the British Empire during the First World War in the northeast frontier of India (then the Assam-Burma frontier).

When this book was first published in 1958, Arabia was even then one of the least known corners of the globe.

When this book was first published in 1958, Arabia was even then one of the least known corners of the globe.

Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation explores the subject of liberalism and its uses and contradictions across the late British Empire, especially in the context of imperial dissolution and subsequent state- building.

Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation explores the subject of liberalism and its uses and contradictions across the late British Empire, especially in the context of imperial dissolution and subsequent state- building.

This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the under analyzed medium of film.

This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the under analyzed medium of film.

This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa.

This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa.

This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century.

This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century.

Adventures in the Aid Trade takes us on a fascinating journey through 40 years of work at the coalface of international development.

Adventures in the Aid Trade takes us on a fascinating journey through 40 years of work at the coalface of international development.

This book presents an overview of the direct and indirect ways in which Europe continues to be influenced by its entrenched postcolonial condition.

This book presents an overview of the direct and indirect ways in which Europe continues to be influenced by its entrenched postcolonial condition.

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels.

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels.

This is the story of Richard Longfield Vowell, an audacious and intrepid young English adventurer who abandoned his studies at Oxford in 1817 to fight against the Spanish Empire that had ruled Latin America for 300 years.

This edited collection explores how national airlines in postcolonial states operate at the complex intersection of corporate branding, cultural governance, tourism development, and national identity formation.

The Kosovo question posed a great challenge to the international order in the western Balkans for a number of decades prior to the outbreak of war in the 1990s.

Algeria's current politics are influenced by its colonial period under the French to an extent not seen in other North African and Middle Eastern states.

How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics?

Sheikh Mubarak was the founder of the modern state of Kuwait.

From the First Gulf War to the present upheaval in Syria, the Kurdish question has been a crucial issue within the Middle East region and in international politics.

In 1961 a group of men arrived in Cambridge to join the Overseas Services Course before going on to work in the Provincial Administration of the Northern Rhodesia Government.

Whilst young ladies in the Victorian and Edwardian eras were expected to have many creative accomplishments, they were not expected to travel unaccompanied, and certainly not to the remote corners of Southeast Europe, then part of the crumbling Ottoman Empire.

In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950.

Bosnia enjoyed a special status within the Ottoman Empire.

Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon.

The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences.

The British Empire was the most powerful empire known to the modern world, but power and confidence were ebbing by the mid-20th century.

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

Cameroon stands as a remarkable example of nation-building in the aftermath of European domination.

The use of child soldiers in the Sudan Civil War has shattered the accepted understanding of why children join armies.

Clever, attractive and ambitious, intellectually daring and physically courageous, Cornelia Sorabji was a truly remarkable woman.

The Kosovo question posed a great challenge to the international order in the western Balkans for a number of decades prior to the outbreak of war in the 1990s.

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

South Africa is a major player in African diplomacy.

In the years leading up to Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, its small and transient white population was balanced precariously atop a large and fast-growing African population.

'Africa is a lost cause'.

The end of World War II intensified Morocco's nationalist struggle against French colonial rule, with the establishment of the Istiqlal ('independence') party and the Moroccan Sultan's emergence as a national leader.

The complex and hard-fought movement for political freedom in India coincided with the rise of a wealthy capitalist class of Indian industrialists who had profited under British rule.

Cameroon stands as a remarkable example of nation-building in the aftermath of European domination.

The British in India, first as adventurers, then as traders and finally as rulers through the India Office in London and the Viceroy's Government in India, oversaw all aspects of Indian life - district administrations, law, police, army, trade, education and culture and relations with princely states and foreign powers.

At the beginning of the 20th Century Jordan, like much of the Middle East, was a loose collection of tribes.

The first decade of independence (1943-1952) was crucial to the political history of Lebanon, following the creation of the state in 1920 and the subsequent years of French tutelage.

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

As millions continue to face a future of food poverty, lessons can be learned by considering how farmer cooperatives succeeded in improving India's food security.

What hope is there for Africa?