National liberation and independence

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

Whether out of historical interest, romantic identification with the colonized or as models for contemporary counter-insurgency experts, the mass violence of insurgency and counter-insurgency in the post-war decolonization of the European empires has long exerted an intense fascination.

In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states.

A significant contribution to the emerging literature on decolonial studies, this concise and forcefully argued volume lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the Mandela phenomenon.

This translation of Rita Segato's seminal book La critica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on the coloniality of power as theorized by the Peruvian thinker Anibal Quijano.

Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women's participation in war and conflict throughout Italy's modern history, contributing to the ongoing scholarly conversation on this topic.

This book argues that the principles of Pan-Africanism are more important than ever in ensuring the liberation of the people Africa, those at home and abroad, and the rapid development of the African continent.

This book connects the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe.

The military rule of General Zia ul-Haq, former President of Pakistan, had significant political repercussions for the country.

This book focuses on the career of Sanskrit in British India.

This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of international legal debates between 1955 and 1975 related to the formal decolonization process.

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.

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.

Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights.

British Policy Towards the Indian States (1982) examines the concept of indirect rule in terms of both its application and consequences in the princely states of India during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

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

Bangladesh is a country of paradoxes.

In post-colonial countries such as Guyana, the legacy of colonialism and its influence on policing and society is of crucial significance in developing an explanation for police violence and police-caused homicide.

Kuwait, unlike most of its neighbours, has a well-established national identity and a long history as a nation, dating back to the eighteenth century.

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

Examines the role of racism within international relations bureaucracies during years of Zimbabwe diplomacy, before and after Independence.

The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field.

How do different gender identities interact with the key challenge of decolonising higher education?

This provocative book challenges frequently voiced assertions regarding museums as necessary and valued modern institutions.

The slow retreat of the British empire in the century after the First World War has had dramatic implications for Britain itself, its former colonies and the global balance of power.

Fighting for Africa captures the commitment and contributions of two men who dedicated their lives to the fight to free Africa from colonialism and racism.

What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity?

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

Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean and on the African continent.

The World Today (1974) examines the world of the late twentieth century and its roots - the disintegration of the old world is analysed in the expansion and subsequent decline of nineteenth-century imperialism, and the attempts by the League of Nations and United Nations to bring about a new order on international cooperation.

Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Perspectives on Imperialism and Decolonization (1984) is a key collection of essays that analyse from many sides the growth and demise of Western imperialism.

La politización generalizada, el desorden y la inseguridad que sucedieron a las independencias de las naciones latinoamericanas han sido interpretados a menudo como síntomas del truncado desarrollo de la modernidad en la región, pero también como resultado del debate sobre el modelo de Estado y las competencias institucionales de los sujetos políticos en las nacientes repúblicas.

Uganda: A Modern History (1981) provides a comprehensive political, social and economic history of Uganda from the beginnings of colonial rule in 1888.

Ho Chi Minh, the founder of the Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, having defeated Japanese and French colonialist became a hate figure of the USA during the Vietnam War.

This book presents a new perspective on colonialism in Africa.

This book analyses Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings' plans for radical democratisation in Ghana, involving ordinary people directly in the country's political and economic decision-making processes.

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

Kavya is an Indian-American professor and single mother struggling with debilitating panic attacks.

Early Records of British India (1972) is an important collection of source material deriving from official documents which now form part of the India Office Records.

When he was elected President in 1845, James K.

Mapping a New Museum seeks to rethink the museum's role in today's politically conscious world.

Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social, cultural, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria.

Mainstream nationalist narratives and political movements have dominated the Israeli-Palestinian situation for too long.

The Gordonia region of the Northern Cape province has received relatively little attention from historians.

Indian counterinsurgency has expanded steadily over the years, adding a new region in each decade since the 1950s.

The violent colonization of Africa by European nations toward the end of the 19th century-a colonization justified by theories about the African Mind promulgated in the Age of Reason-had a profound impact upon the mind of Black Africa.