National liberation and independence

Kenya's Independence Constitution: Constitution-Making and End of Empire is a narrative of the evolution of the constitution that was put into effect as Kenya's history as a colonial possession came to an end.

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

This book promotes constructive and nuanced transdisciplinary understandings of some of the critical problems that we face on a global scale today by thinking with and from the Global South.

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.

Professor Drummond's two pioneering studies, British Economic Policy and the Empire 1919-1939, 1972, and Imperial Economic Policy 1917-1939, 1974, helped to revive interest in Empire migration and other aspects of inter-war imperial economic history.

This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947.

Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it.

Many would rather change worlds than change the world.

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First published in 1937, India captures the tense and tumultuous developments in India that would eventually result in her freedom a decade later.

"e;One of those rare, transformative novels"e; KARIM MISKE"e;Funny and poignant"e; TIFFANY TSAO, author of The MajestiesInitially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile.

In 2019, Solomon Islands made international headlines when the country severed its decades-old alliance with Taiwan in exchange for a partnership with Beijing.

'Lucid, fluent and compelling' Observer'We need writers like Andrews .

Unshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were preyed upon by European colonialism and Westernisation.

From the Rif War to the rebellion of 1958, the Berbers (Imazighen) have played a central role in the history of Moroccan resistance to colonialism in the twentieth century.

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

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

The Gambia Colony and Protectorate (1967) provides both a history of the colony and a wealth of valuable practical and statistical information about its establishment and running.

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.

Museums and Atlantic Slavery explores how slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and enslaved people are represented through words, visual images, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in museums in Europe and the Americas.

In light of the discrepancy between Britain's and France's postcolonial security roles in Africa, which seemed already determined half a decade after independence, this book studies the making of the postcolonial security relationship during the transfer of power and the early years of independence (1958-1966).

This book brings together multidisciplinary perspectives to explore how political values and acts of resistance impact the delivery of social justice in post-colonial states.

The defence of the Gulf has been a vital strategic concern for close on 100 years.

This book offers a new approach to design theory and practice that draws on Indigenous knowledges, methodologies and methods, presenting concepts of decolonising and Indigenous design that are interweaved as theory, storytelling, and practices.

Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first voyage to India ushered in a period of European conquest and empire, and established direct and permanent contact between Europe and the Far East.

Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous.

The West African National Secretariat (WANS) has almost been forgotten by history.

Why on earth would two history nerds use their own free time to write another US history textbook?

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Awareness of the community culture is necessary for a successful leadership.

This is the controversial history of the British government's involvement in the Zionist project, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the present day.

Ensayos que analizan la Independencia del Perú desde la perspectiva española, en el marco cronológico del trienio liberal y el retorno al absolutismo y estableciendo el contrapunto necesario con las dinámicas patriotas.

On 27 April 1994 South Africa went to the polls and delivered the first black government in the country’s history.

This is a thoughtful and sensitive analysis of the history and significance of non-violent civil resistance in the Palestinian national movement.

A half-century into the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Israel's Occupation at Fifty brings together eminent political leaders, scholars, and activists for a wide-ranging, at times contentious, and remarkably fruitful discussion of the region's fate.

Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience.

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their black comrades all over the world.

'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming'Compelling.

Inequality and unfairness still stalk Scotland after more than twenty years of devolution.

These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the Middle East, which is currently fighting for survival against religious extremism and state violence.

The most charismatic figure to emerge during the struggles for the independence of Ireland was undoubtedly Michael Collins.

Este libro presenta y pone en discusión, en primera persona, las diversas vivencias, lecturas y análisis que tanto actores como detractores, recopiladores y estudiosos de las consultas populares y del referéndum de autodeterminación de Cataluña, ofrecieron acerca del proceso independentista catalán, señalando sus inicios y reflexionando sobre su desarrollo y perspectivas a mediano plazo.

In a time of intensified global white supremacist and patriarchal violence, anti-racist feminist movements and analyses have never been more vital.

A BRAVE QUEEN OF AVADH WHO LED HER KINGDOM DURING AN UPRISING.

Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers.

Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers.

Written in 1957, when North African independence movements were gaining momentum, The Colonizer and the Colonized studies the enduring legacy, political as much as psychological, of colonisation throughout the world.

From the author of 'Edge of Empire' comes a fascinating, thought-provoking and alternative history of the American Revolution - that of those Americans who remained loyal to the British Empire.