National liberation and independence

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.

The creation of the Egyptian monarchy in 1922, under King Fuad II, opened contests and debates over fundamental cultural questions, particularly definitions of Egyptian modernity, rule and identity.

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 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.

The Biafran War was truly a 'brother's war', which saw family and friends on opposing sides.

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?

Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization.

For almost two hundred years Britain dominated the world, its naval supremacy enabling it to acquire a vast empire, including India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and much of Africa.

In overturning Spain's control of the Americas, such great military leaders as Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin unleashed both civil wars and revolutions between 1810 and 1824.

Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions.

This study of colonialism and art examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting.

In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L.

During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world.

The plebeians of Buenos Aires were crucial to the success of the revolutionary junta of May 1810, widely considered the start of the Argentine war of independence.

By the 1920s, psychoanalysis was a technology of both the late-colonial state and anti-imperialism.

In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization.

In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom.

Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor.