Colonialism and imperialism Books
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment
Book SynopsisInvestigates the ways in which colonial peoples chose to express their bodies and identities through clothing and adornment. Diana DiPaolo examines strategies of combining local-made and imported goods not simply to emulate European elites, but instead to create a language of new appearance by which to communicate in an often contentious colonial world.Trade ReviewHighly readable but also innovative in its approach to a broad array of material from diverse colonial contexts." — Carolyn White, University of Nevada, Reno"Loren brings together a sampling of the extensive literature on the archaeology of clothing and adornment to argue that artifacts of the body acquire their meaning through cultural practice. She shows how dress serves as social discourse and a tool of identity negotiation." — Kathleen Deagan, Florida Museum of Natural History
£15.26
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and
Book SynopsisBrings together archaeological research on French colonial sites from Maryland, South Carolina, the Gulf Coast and Lower Mississippi Valley, the Caribbean, and French Guiana to explore the nature of French colonization. Specific contributions explore foodways, ceramics, plantations, architecture, and colonial interactions with Africans and Native Americans.
£18.86
University Press of Florida Colonized Bodies Worlds Transformed Toward A
Book SynopsisContributors to this volume illustrate previously unknown and variable effects of colonialism by analysing skeletal remains and burial patterns from never-before-studied regions in the Americas to the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. The result is the first step toward a new synthesis of archaeology and bioarchaeology.Trade ReviewBreaks new ground regarding how to think about colonial encounters in innovative ways that pay attention to a wide range of issues from health and demography to identity formations and adaptation." - Debra L. Martin, coeditor of The Bioarchaeology of Violence"Amply demonstrates the breadth and variability of the impact of colonialism." - Ken Nystrom, State University of New York at New Paltz"Pushes the boundaries of colonial studies. . . . Scholars of all levels, from undergraduates to advanced professionals, should consult this volume in pursuit of excellent examples of biocultural and theory-driven explorations of bioarchaeology." - Antiquity"Provides a nuanced, empirical examination of the effects of colonialism on the bodies of the colonized. . . . and builds on and adds diversity to earlier studies that focused on contact between Europeans and Indigenous Americans." - Choice
£31.46
Rutgers University Press Haiti and the Uses of America PostUS Occupation
Book SynopsisContrary to popular notions, Haiti-U.S. relations have not only been about Haitian resistance to U.S. domination. In Haiti and the Uses of America, Chantalle F. Verna makes evident that there have been key moments of cooperation that contributed to nation-building in both countries. Trade Review"Tracing Haitian post-occupation engagement with the United States, Verna rejects a narrow binary interpretation and convincingly demonstrates the importance of a thoroughly informed, nuanced lens in any analysis of Haiti–U.S. relations." -- Robert Maguire * Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University *"This groundbreaking, deeply researched, and richly rewarding study illuminates how Haitians were key agents of inter-American connection and collaboration during the mid-twentieth century. Chantalle F. Verna rethinks Haiti's relation to the United States at that time by asking complex questions and reaching nuanced insights that seem just as relevant and important with reference to today." -- Kate Ramsey * author of The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti *"In keeping with the careful nuance she employs, Verna weaves analysis of race and class throughout the book, yet without allowing either theme to eclipse other concerns and motivations. The work is especially well written and easy to navigate." * American Historical Review *"This text is already an important work in multiple historiographies. Haiti and the Uses of America will serve as the foundation for such future scholarship on cultural and diplomatic interactions in Haitian foreign policy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as well as the multifaceted relationship between Haiti, the United States, and international development." * H-Net *"The insights of Haiti and the Uses of America raise new questions about Haiti in the past and present....In connecting the U.S. occupation to the U.N. development projects that came later, Verna provides an unbroken line from the early twentieth-century occupation to the present one. What would we learn if scholars were more open to the ambiguities of the first occupation and more receptive to the anti-occupation voices of the present? After reading Verna, these become impossible to ignore." * New West Indian Guide *"[A] meaningful new book...[This] well-researched and nuanced book deepens the knowledge of scholars of Haiti and Caribbean intellectual, social, and economic historians interested in local and national challenges that impeded the prosperity of Haiti's most vulnerable citizens." * Journal of Haitian Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Terminology and LanguageAbbreviations IntroductionChapter 1. The Promise and Peril of Foreign Ties, 1791–1915Chapter 2. “With the Spirit of Friendship”: U.S. Occupation, Indigenisme, and Haitian Nationalism, 1915–1934Chapter 3. Pan-Americanism in Port-au-Prince: Historical Memories and Urban Activities, 1934–1945Chapter 4. La Nouvelle Cooperation:Cultivating Knowledge through Haiti-U.S. Ties, 1936–1948Chapter 5. “Viva UNESCO”: A Subtle Embedding of the United States in Haiti, 1948–1953Epilogue: Enduring Promises NotesNote on SourcesBibliographyIndex
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Haiti and the Uses of America PostUS Occupation
Book SynopsisContrary to popular notions, Haiti-U.S. relations have not only been about Haitian resistance to U.S. domination. In Haiti and the Uses of America, Chantalle F. Verna makes evident that there have been key moments of cooperation that contributed to nation-building in both countries. Trade Review"Tracing Haitian post-occupation engagement with the United States, Verna rejects a narrow binary interpretation and convincingly demonstrates the importance of a thoroughly informed, nuanced lens in any analysis of Haiti–U.S. relations." -- Robert Maguire * Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University *"This groundbreaking, deeply researched, and richly rewarding study illuminates how Haitians were key agents of inter-American connection and collaboration during the mid-twentieth century. Chantalle F. Verna rethinks Haiti's relation to the United States at that time by asking complex questions and reaching nuanced insights that seem just as relevant and important with reference to today." -- Kate Ramsey * author of The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti *"In keeping with the careful nuance she employs, Verna weaves analysis of race and class throughout the book, yet without allowing either theme to eclipse other concerns and motivations. The work is especially well written and easy to navigate." * American Historical Review *"This text is already an important work in multiple historiographies. Haiti and the Uses of America will serve as the foundation for such future scholarship on cultural and diplomatic interactions in Haitian foreign policy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as well as the multifaceted relationship between Haiti, the United States, and international development." * H-Net *"The insights of Haiti and the Uses of America raise new questions about Haiti in the past and present....In connecting the U.S. occupation to the U.N. development projects that came later, Verna provides an unbroken line from the early twentieth-century occupation to the present one. What would we learn if scholars were more open to the ambiguities of the first occupation and more receptive to the anti-occupation voices of the present? After reading Verna, these become impossible to ignore." * New West Indian Guide *"[A] meaningful new book...[This] well-researched and nuanced book deepens the knowledge of scholars of Haiti and Caribbean intellectual, social, and economic historians interested in local and national challenges that impeded the prosperity of Haiti's most vulnerable citizens." * Journal of Haitian Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Terminology and LanguageAbbreviations IntroductionChapter 1. The Promise and Peril of Foreign Ties, 1791–1915Chapter 2. “With the Spirit of Friendship”: U.S. Occupation, Indigenisme, and Haitian Nationalism, 1915–1934Chapter 3. Pan-Americanism in Port-au-Prince: Historical Memories and Urban Activities, 1934–1945Chapter 4. La Nouvelle Cooperation:Cultivating Knowledge through Haiti-U.S. Ties, 1936–1948Chapter 5. “Viva UNESCO”: A Subtle Embedding of the United States in Haiti, 1948–1953Epilogue: Enduring Promises NotesNote on SourcesBibliographyIndex
£105.40
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Imperatives Behaviors and Identities Essays in
Book SynopsisThis work brings together 16 essays in cultural history. Taken together, the essays aim to provide a reassessment of the complex process of cultural adjustment among the settler societies of colonial British and revolutionary America.
£23.36
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Negotiated Authorities Essays in Colonial
Book SynopsisThese essays, drawn from the author's work since 1964, address three themes in American history in the century preceding the 1760s: authority in colonial British America; the political and constitutional development of these colonial entities; and shifting constitutional tensions within the empire.
£23.36
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Understanding the American Revolution Issues and Actors
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together 16 essays on the American revolution which approach the revolution as an episode in British imperial history rather than as the first step in the creation of an American nation. The text also investigates why the American revolution was not more radical.
£30.56
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The State Against the Peasantry Rural Struggles
Book SynopsisThrough a careful consideration of the peasantry and the role of the NGOs, this work offers a nuanced understanding of the development process that has taken place in Mozambique and other southern African countries since independence. It draws on oral data and archival research.
£22.75
John Wiley & Sons Gertrude Bell
Book SynopsisThe Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. She rode with bandits, braved desert shamals and was captured by Bedouins. This volume of three of her notebooks preserves Bell's elegant, vibrant prose and presents Bell as a brilliant tactician fearlessly confronting her vulnerabilities.
£22.46
John Wiley & Sons Colonial Jerusalem
Book SynopsisIn one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban centre at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past as is often suggested, remains a crucial component of Palestinian and Israeli realities today.
£26.06
University of Arizona Press Savages and Citizens
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£21.84
University of Minnesota Press Dangerous Liaisons
Book SynopsisThis collection addresses the issues raised by the postcolonial condition, considering nationhood, history, gender and identity from an interdisciplinary perspective.Table of ContentsPart I Contesting nations zionism from the standpoint of its victims, Edward W. Said; Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the standpoint of its Jewish victims, Ella Shohat; Of Balkans and Bantustans - ethnic cleansing and the crisis in national legitimation, Rob Nixon; "No longer in a future heaven" - Gender, race and nationalism, Anne McClintock; Currying favour - The politics of British educational and cultural policy in India, 1813-1954, Gauri Viswanathan; The nation as imagined community, Jean Franco. Part II Multiculturalism and diasporic identities; on the question of a theory of (Third) World literature, Madhava Prasad; Caliban speaks 500 years later, Roberto Fernandez Retamar; The local and the global: Globalization and ethnicity, Stuart Hall ; Multiculturalism and the neo-conservatives, Robert Stam ; Shuckin' off the African American native other: What's "Po-Mo" got to do with it?, Wahneema Lubiano; Identity, meaning and the African-American, Michael Hanchard; Just looking for trouble - Robert Maplethorpe and fantasies of race, Kobena Mercer. Part III Gender and the politics of race Under Western eyes - Feminist scholarship and colonial Chandra Talpade Mohanty; Traddutora, Traditora - A paradigmatic figure of Chicana feminism, Norma Alarcon ; American Indian women- At the centre of indigenous resistance in contemporary North America, M. Annette Jaimes with Theresa Halsey; "On the threshold of woman's era" - Lynching, empire, and sexuality in Black feminist theory, Hazel V. Carby; Making empire respectable - The politics of race and sexual morality in 20th-century colonial cultures, Ann L. Stoler; Age, race, class, and sex - Women redefining difference, Audre Lorde; Gender is burning - Questions of appropriation and subversion, Judith Butler; Sisterhood - Political solidarity between women bell hooks. Part IV Postcolonial theory Not you/like you - Post-colonial women and the interlocking questions of identity and difference, Trinh T. Minh-ha; Is the "post" in "post-colonial" the "post" in "post-modern"?, Kwame Anthony Appiah; The world and the home, Homi K. Bhabha; Reading Africa through Foucault - V.Y. Mudimbe's reaffirmation of the subject, Manthia Diawana; Teaching for the times Gayatri Spivak; Postcolonial criticism and Indian historiography Gyan Prakash; The postcolonial aura - Third World criticism in the age of global capitalism, Arif Dirlik.
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press A Joint Enterprise
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at the urban history of British Bombay.Trade Review"A Joint Enterprise is an ambitious, original, and interesting book on a valuable topic. Preeti Chopra provides unique interpretations of, among other things, the Indian reception and interpretation of the neo-Gothic architecture of the colonial regime." —Anthony King, author of Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity"A Joint Enterprise is an extremely able and well-informed survey of an interesting subject." —The Times Literary Supplement"Chopra’s monograph is a true contribution to bringing architectural practice and perception into the history of Bombay city." —Journal of Asian Studies"Offers a skillfully crafted and nuanced reading of the colonial experience that challenges the polemics of racial and cultural segregation while articulating far more complex hierarchies of power." —Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"A Joint Enterprise provides a fabulous history of colonial domination and resistance through architectural and urban development in colonial Bombay." —South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies"One ends Chopra’s engaging book wondering if the first major dents to colonial Bombay’s famed cosmopolitanism came from these segregating medical and housing policies rather than events like the Hindu-Muslim Riots of 1893." —Hamazor "Offers a new perspective on urban social history." —Enterprise and Society "Vital to understanding the architectural genealogy of the city."— Buildings & Landscape"This book is a valuable addition to the literature on South Asian urbanism. The ‘joint public realm’ is a useful effort to conceptualize the manner in which Indians engaged with notions like the public." —Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient"Preeti Chopra’s A Joint Enterprise is a detailed, well-researched, illuminating work that makes a clear argument: ‘colonial’ cities are far less ‘colonial’ than we imagine. [It] is a major accomplishment, clearly the product of intensive research over many years by a scholar deeply committed to and knowledgeable in her chosen field." —Interventions"As ambitious as it is imaginative, this book combines critical perspectives on the materiality and visibility of the modern city with an insightful examination of the agency of both colonial rulers and indigenous subjects. Elegantly presented and effectively developed." —Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsAuthor’s Note Introduction 1. A Joint Enterprise 2. Anglo-Indian Architecture and the Meaning of Its Styles 3. The Biography of an Unknown Native Engineer 4. Dividing Practices in Bombay’s Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums 5. An Unforeseen Landscape of Contradictions 6. Of Gods and Mortal Heroes: Conundrums of the Secular Landscape of Colonial Bombay Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press The Transit of Empire
Book SynopsisExamines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empireTrade Review"Theoretically rich, and broad in its intellectual scope, The Transit of Empire puts Indianness at the center of American histories that are not only national, but explicitly imperial and colonial. Jodi Byrd’s brilliant critique of contemporary multicultural liberalism places American Indian and Indigenous studies in close dialogue with postcolonial scholarship, transforming both in the process. It is a work of power, complexity, and commitment, and should not be missed by anyone in these fields." —Philip Deloria"The Transit of Empire is a sophisticated and groundbreaking work of indigenous critical theory in which Jodi Byrd reveals and explores the cacophonies of colonialism in literary, historical, and political settings." —Kevin Bruyneel, Babson CollegeTable of ContentsContentsPreface: Full Fathom FiveIntroduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of Civilization1. Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry2. “This Island’s Mine”: The Parallax Logics of Caliban’s Cacophony3. The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris’s Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability4. “Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn’t Stay There”: Cherokee Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship5. Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance6. Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the “Pale Promise of Democracy”Conclusion: Zombie ImperialismAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Humanitarian Violence The U.S. Deployment of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With clear and astute arguments that are executed with force and lucidity, Neda Atanasoski offers a wonderfully rich comparative study of postsocialist regions whose histories have been intertwined in various ways with American discursive and material practices and politics. The sustained focus on these kinds of U.S. historical impulses and their complex connections to Eastern Europe is a highly original and a much-needed intervention." —Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio University"Humanitarian Violence is transnational and interdisciplinary scholarship at its best. It offers a much needed deeper look at the constitution of the modern West, while at the same time convincingly arguing for the continued importance of literary analysis and suggesting ways in which this analysis can be related to visual genres such as photojournalism, film, and digital art." —Fatima El-Tayeb, University of California, San Diego Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Racial Reorientations of U.S. Humanitarian Imperalism1. Racial Time and the Other: Mapping the Postsocialist Transition2. The Vietnam War and the Ethics of Failure: Heart of Darkness and the Emergence of Humanitarian Feeling at the Limits of Imperial Critique3. Restoring National Faith: The Soviet-Afghan War in U.S. Media and Politics4. Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: The Technologies of Humanitarian Militarism in Serbia and Kosovo5. Feminist Politics of Secular Redemption at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Epilogue. Beyond Spectacle: The Hidden Geographies of the War at HomeAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Nuclear Desire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Aligning herself with the most vulnerable, and armed with a sharp stylus, Shampa Biswas deftly dissects the sprawling corpus of the global nuclear order. Focusing her analysis on the sinews of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, she tracks and traces the modalities through which ideological allure and enforced abstinence, sanitized events and horrifying accidents, faith in deterrence and flows of deathly waste, commodity fetishism and enlightenment technologies of rule, expensive state security and opaque political economy come together to power this colonial regime. Nuclear Desire offers profound and provocative insights into the hierarchical structuring and colonial governance of contemporary global orders."—Himadeep Muppidi, Vassar College"Nuclear Desire moves us to rethink the route to a nuclear-free world as one that must center reasons of peace and social justice. Shampa Biswas moves beyond well-rehearsed critiques—indeed, beyond critique itself—to give us new insights into how a more secure world might simultaneously be more peaceful and just."—J. Marshall Beier, McMaster University"This book is a heartfully rendered, powerfully argued, and intricately crafted deconstruction of the global nuclear order."—Perspectives on Politics "Nuclear Desire is one of the most comprehensive applications of a critical methodology to the topic of nuclear weapons, and a welcome contribution to the growing field of critical nuclear studies from a postcolonial perspective." —Nonproliferation ReviewTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Use and Waste in the Global Nuclear Order1. Intentions and Effects: The Proliferation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime2. Whose Nuclear Order? A Postcolonial Critique of an Enlightenment Project3. Unusable, Dangerous, and Desirable: Nuclear Weapons as Fetish Commodities4. Costly Weapons: The Political Economy of Nuclear PowerConclusion. Decolonizing the Nuclear World: Can the Subaltern Speak?Appendix: The Nuclear Nonproliferation RegimeNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
The University of Alabama Press The Tree That Bends Discourse Power and the Survival of the Maskoki People
Book SynopsisThe author of this book offers a paradigm for the interpretation of south-eastern Native American, and Spanish colonial history, and another way of viewing the development of the United States. She describes the genesis of those North American groups collectively known as Maskoki.
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press Struggle for the Georgia Coast
Trade ReviewWorth concentrates on those passages from the Spanish documentation that [describe] the mission towns and populations, the Anglo-sponsored Indian aggression against them, and official Spanish reaction from the provincial capital of St. Augustine. Particularly interesting are his extracts and commentaries dealing with the little known Chichimeco, who were the first to attack the Guale islands in 1661. - Journal of Southern History ""An excellent job of positioning documents in the context of other published primary source material on Florida. Annotations about the physical attributes of the original manuscripts, the identification of individuals and places and notes on historical context are all excellent.... Worth is to be commended for his overview, annotations, and maintenance of the integrity and context of this collection."" - Ethnohistory
£23.36
Ohio University Press Paths of Accommodation Muslim Societies and
Book SynopsisBetween 1880 and 1920, Muslim Sufi orders became pillars of the colonial regimes and economies of Senegal and Mauritania.
£25.19
Ohio University Press West African Challenge to Empire Culture and
Book SynopsisWest African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915–16. It was the largest challenge that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire, and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa.Trade Review“A must-read for any scholar interested in the military and social history of colonial rule in Africa.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This is only one of many historical studies written by anthropologists in recent years, but it is surely one of the best.” * The International History Review *“This book is an outstanding example of how two scholars from the distinct disciplines of history and anthropology can join talents to produce an excellent study, one that adequately combines dense narratives with insightful theories … [It] presents us with not only a dense political narrative about men and motives, but also a cultural history, with the magic and supernatural dimensions of war.” * Historian *
£56.10
Ohio University Press West African Challenge to Empire
Book SynopsisWest African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 191516. It was the largest challenge that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire, and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa.Trade Review“A must-read for any scholar interested in the military and social history of colonial rule in Africa.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This is only one of many historical studies written by anthropologists in recent years, but it is surely one of the best.” * The International History Review *“This book is an outstanding example of how two scholars from the distinct disciplines of history and anthropology can join talents to produce an excellent study, one that adequately combines dense narratives with insightful theories … [It] presents us with not only a dense political narrative about men and motives, but also a cultural history, with the magic and supernatural dimensions of war.” * Historian *
£26.09
Ohio University Press The ANC Youth League
Book SynopsisThis brilliant little book tells the story of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League from its origins in the 1940s to the present and the controversies over Julius Malema and his influence in contemporary youth politics.Trade Review“Glaser shows that while the impact of the Youth League has ebbed and flowed, black South Africa youth have shaped the nation's politics in fundamental ways. Authoritative, streamlined, and highly readable, this book deserves a wide readership.” * African Studies Quarterly *“Glaser’s book provides a well-written analysis of the competition between ideologies and strategies within the ANC. … Throughout, Glaser highlights the tensions between those leaders who stood for ideological purity as Africanists and those who gravitated to a more pragmatic approach that stressed ideological pluralism. …[He] …perceptively [analyzes] the ways in which South African youth have ignited and fueled the nationalist cause in South Africa over the last seventy-five years.” * African Studies Review *“As Clive Glaser notes in his nuanced and lively account, the [ANC] Youth League have, at certain times, played a pivotal role in shaping policy in its parent organisation. For Glaser, the rise of the YL needs to be seen in the context of the broader political and economic landscape of industrialisation and urbanisation, when ‘the townships of Johannesburg became an extraordinary melting pot of young, educated Africans’…This book is sure to become required reading for students and scholars of youth politics in South Africa and the continent more widely.” * Journal of African History *
£12.99
Ohio University Press The Krio of West Africa Islam Culture
Book SynopsisSierra Leone’s unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of historical investigation since the 1950s.Trade Review“The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century, is an engaging history of Sierra Leone that departs from previous scholarship. Taking issue with those who have tended to describe the Krio as essentially a Christian and Westernized ‘ethnic group,’ [Cole] suggests that the Krio identity, forged in nineteenth-century Freetown, transcended ethnicity, culture, and even religion. Indeed, his study focuses not on Christians, but on the hitherto understudied Muslim Krios, a group he portrays as ‘marginalized within the marginalized’ … This informative book fills an important space on the shelves of Sierra Leonean history.” * American Historical Review *“…The Krio of West Africa is not only a long-overdue and welcome addition to the historical literature on Sierra Leone, but also a breath of fresh air for treating an important subject located in the longue durée of Sierra Leone’s past rather than privileging the aberration that much of the country’s postcolonial history has been. My prediction is that Cole’s monograph will become a benchmark for studying the complex histories of other indigenous ethnic groups of Sierra Leone.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Cole’s book is an important contribution to the history of Krio and Sierra Leonean society. … It also contributes to our historical knowledge concerning the spread of Islam in West Africa and the Krio Muslims’ role in it.” * Comparativ *“Cole’s long awaited book… is an engaging history of Sierra Leone that departs from previous scholarship. Taking issue with those who have tended to describe the Krio as essentially a Christian and Westernized ‘ethnic group,’ he suggests that the Krio identity, forged in nineteenth-century Freetown, transcended ethnicity, culture, and even religion. …This informative book fills an important space on the shelves of Sierra Leonean history.” * American Historical Review *
£25.19
Ohio University Press Black Skin White Coats Nigerian Psychiatrists
Book SynopsisBlack Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s.Trade Review“Black Skin, White Coats contributes to a rich strand of work in the history of psychiatry that highlights—and in fact insists upon—not just the transnational nature of colonial and postcolonial psychiatric discourses, but the fact that these transnational flows traveled in many directions and crossed borders in surprising ways, often bypassing ‘the Metropole’ altogether…[Heaton’s book] will rightfully be regarded as an important contribution to the history of psychiatry in Africa.” * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *“The book’s greatest achievement may be its demonstration that the rise and fall of social medicine in the second half of the twentieth century is not merely a story about Europeans and Americans attempting to impose their visions on the rest of the world, but also the story of a collaboration — albeit a tense, tenuous, and limited collaboration — in which Africans actively participated.” * Canadian Journal of History *“An important contribution…Heaton’s Black Skin, White Coats … squarely [addresses] the impact of nationalism and decolonisation on health care in Africa. … [it] uses psychiatry as a lens through which to evaluate the continuities and changes of colonialism. It has broad appeal and encourages scholars to move ‘away from an outdated reliance on the development and spread of ‘Western psychiatry…’” * Contemporary European History *“Based on solid research, Black Skin, White Coats is well written and makes for a good read, and should attract a readership in colonial studies, African history, the history of science and medicine, global studies, and development studies.”“Black Skin, White Coats is clearly written and accessible to readers who are not professional historians. While of interest to scholars of African ethno psychiatry, Heaton’s social and historical account of the period from the late 1940s to early 1980s provides an engaging narrative of the complexities of integrating Western psychiatry into an African society within a very compressed time frame. As such, the book should be of interest to a broad range of social scientists as well as the interested lay reader.” * Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry *“Matthew Heaton’s innovative Black Skin, White Coats is the first full-length history of a national mental health system focusing on the transition between the colonial and postcolonial periods.” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“Black Skin, White Coats uses psychiatry as a lens through which to evaluate the continuities and changes of colonialism. It has broad appeal and encourages scholars to move ‘away from an outdated reliance on the development and spread of “Western” psychiatry and towards a theorization of a “global” psychiatry that recognizes a greater diversity of actors.’ As a result, [Heaton’s] methodological approach … is ripe for comparison to different diseases and public health concerns in other contexts.” * Contemporary European History *
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Ohio University Press In Idi Amins Shadow Women Gender and Militarism
Book SynopsisIn Idi Amin’s Shadow is a rich social history examining Ugandan women’s complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state.Trade Review“In eight engaging chapters … Alicia Decker traces the complex relationship between Amin’s regime and Uganda’s women, from the early years when women hailed Amin as a liberator to the darkest period when they hoped and prayed for a Tanzanian army invasion. … The question of how Idi Amin’s regime reorganized gender norms is a crucial one for the book. Decker explores the innovations in gender performance that followed Idi Amin’s rise to power. …This is of course just one of the many rich discussion points that the book gifts the reader with. The book makes a substantial addition to the field of African History. It would work well for courses or discussions on military history, military rule in Africa, women and gender courses, feminist history, postcolonial studies, and Cold War studies.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Alicia Decker uses an array of evidence from oral, visual, and written sources. The result is an impressive compilation of case studies that illustrate the different aspects of women’s experiences and the intricate world they navigated.”“Focusing on the lives of women who survived his rule, Alicia Decker's meticulously researched and crisply written study explains not only why but how Amin’s brutality reached the level it did. This is a particularly important contribution, because Ugandan women have been considered marginal to this sociopolitical history. … Throughout the book she demonstrates the methodological and ethical challenges of conducting historical research on a period that still engenders fearful memories, and the book’s appendix and the section titled ‘Methods and Sources’ provide valuable guidelines for future research.” * African Studies Review *“Decker’s study is a fine contribution to histories of militarism in Africa, African gender studies, the study of the state in Africa, and scholarship on Uganda in the 1970s in particular. …[she] provides an excellent example of the possibilities of feminist history writing by placing gender and militarism side-by-side in her study; she also offers a lucid and highly sought-after account of everyday lived experience during an era that continues to be characterized by an architecture of silence in Uganda today.” * Journal of African History *“Unlike most previous publications on Amin that mainly focus on political aspects, this work is a sociopolitical history highlighting the experiences of ordinary Ugandans in general and women in particular. … [It] is an excellent, pioneering masterpiece and Decker [should be] commended for producing such an insightful, readable book.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“[In Idi Amin's Shadow] should appeal to historians of postcolonial Africa as well as those who study military dictatorships and those interested in gender studies. It is clearly written and although Decker does not shy away from describing the violence inflicted on Ugandans and others, she does not either indulge in gratuitous detail. The combination of a narrative history of Amin’s regime alongside the focus on gender and violence and the many illustrations should make it useful for undergraduate teaching.” * Journal of African Military History *“A subtle, important, theoretically innovative, and elegantly written study that centralizes feminist thinking and shows why it matters.” * Feminist Africa *“In Idi Amin’s Shadow is the first book to extensively explore women’s lives in the ‘shadows’ of military rule in 1970s Uganda. Decker’s book presents an engaging, accessible and welcome examination of women’s ‘complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state,’ showing how the state’s use of violence offered opportunities as well as threats for women.” * Africa at LSE *"A riveting historical masterpiece." * Nation *
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Ohio University Press An Uncertain Age The Politics of Manhood in
Book SynopsisIn twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They also shaped East Africans’ contact with and influence on emergent colonial and global ideas about age and masculinity.Trade Review“Provocative and meticulously researched, Ocobock’s book demonstrates the importance of age and masculinity in Kenyan history. Readers will appreciate the elegant prose and arresting detail of this rigorous narrative history. Ocobock is unquestionably a historian and writer of first rank.”“In Ocobock’s work, intriguing tales about male initiation and other coming-of-age practices show how African youth and elders struggled with colonial officials, missionaries, settlers, and nationalist leaders over the meanings of manhood. His nuanced analysis enriches and expands the history of masculinities.”“In demonstrating the centrality of concerns over age and gender, Ocobock offers a brilliant means of reconceiving Kenyan history beyond the more usual focus on ethnicity. Linking the processes of growing up and state making, he deftly shows how gendered notions of maturity have shaped Kenya’s politics. This superb book will find a wide and appreciative audience.”“With a sure command of the literature, Ocobock argues for the increased importance of gender and generation for historical research.…The core of the book, based on archival material and in-depth interviews, contrasts the colonial era ‘elder state’ to the contemporary postcolonial situation. Although these chapters are informative and detailed, the introductory chapter alone is worth the price of admission’…Summing up: Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Compellingly elucidates that Kenya as a colony was no seamless well-oiled machine, but rather a ‘crowded, cacophonous place’ of religious leaders, judges, wardens, and other authorities who all had frequently competing visions about how to shape age and manhood.” * African Studies Review *
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Ohio University Press To Speak and Be Heard
Book SynopsisThrough detailed archival research, Hanson reveals the origins of Uganda’s strategies for good government—assembly, assent, and powerful gifts—and explains why East African party politics often fail.Trade ReviewIn this thought-provoking new book Holly Hanson has cut clean through the conventional but hated three-part periodization of African historiography—pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial—with its equally unhelpful oppositions of tradition and modernity. With persuasive evidence she shows that Ugandans have for centuries sought consultative, accountable governance, often with institutional checks on the caprice of kings, governors, or presidents. They have long spoken up in public in the conviction that loyalty from below deserves attention from above, and now hope that premodern strategies to secure good governance will help to conjure up a better modernity. -- John Lonsdale, coauthor of Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and AfricaThis book ‘speaks loudly’ in the hope that it will ‘be heard.’ Holly Hanson successfully demonstrates how in pursuit of a just and moral polity, physical and conceptual spaces created out of people’s presence and actions provided an opportunity through which people can speak to the powerful and expect to be heard. To Speak and be Heard is a prototype of how a blended study of overt ‘spaces’ and ‘speaking’ can reveal larger political engagement and accountability trends in a complex and rapidly changing world. It superbly demonstrates how those trends could be encapsulated and discerningly written about in the twenty-first century. -- Nakanyike B. Musisi, University of Toronto, coauthor of Decentralisation and Transformation of Governance in UgandaHolly Hanson weaves into her account of good government a history of inequality, revealing the kind of thing that can make the formula for direct democracy fail to produce the desired results and atrophy. The next challenge is to speak up, be heard, and figure out the obligations that will diminish inequality. Crossing all major periods in Ugandan history, but focused on the last century and a half, this is a landmark book in African history. -- David L. Schoenbrun, author of The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930Holly Hanson’s survey has unearthed massive evidence to show that autocracy, one person rule and tyranny did not define African precolonial systems, much as western visitors focused on it or as current media depicts African systems of governance. [Hanson] proves that there were defined mechanisms for the expression … of alternative views of managing society. These views were implemented because there were ample spaces for people to speak and be heard. -- A.B.K. Kasozi, author of The Social Origins of Violence in Uganda, 1964–1985Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Long History of Political Voice Chapter 1. Building Polities through Assent, Assembly, and Voice in Ancient East Africa Chapter 2. Incorporating Strangers in the Time of Two Lukikos Chapter 3. Seeking Justice at the Palace and the Lake Chapter 4. The Modernity That Might Have Been: How Ugandans Lost Mechanisms of Accountability in the Transition to Independence Chapter 5. The Pretense of Assent and the Power of Assembly in the Time of Amin Conclusion: The Shape of the Present Notes Bibliography Index
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Ohio University Press Colonial Fantasies Imperial Realities Race
Book SynopsisUreña Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature and fiction. She analyzes scientific and medical debates to connect medicine, migration, and colonialism, providing an invigorating model for the analysis of Polish history from a global perspective.Trade Review“Stands to revolutionize how scholars conceive of imperial Germany’s eastern domains as well as German-Polish and German-Slavic relations. Of great interest to an interdisciplinary audience that includes specialists of Central Europe, Germany, Poland, migration, imperialism, race, the history of medicine, and African and Latin American studies. Ureña Valerio’s approach and findings are remarkably original and important, and offer an excellent example of how Central European history, and even Polish history, can be written in a global approach and in the context of European colonialism.”“Ureña Valerio’s innovative work addresses what has been missing in recent works on the ‘eastern turn’ and ‘colonial turn’ in German studies: it integrates Polish responses to German colonial projects, both discursive and real. Another valuable contribution is her analysis of eugenics and racial hygiene discourses.”“This highly interesting work brings together the insights of colonial and comparative studies. Ureña Valerio applies them to the Polish-German borderland, or ‘Prussian Poland,’ the subject of which has until now been dominated by traditional monographs seeking to claim the land as either rightfully German or rightfully Polish. Her approach is new and refreshing.”“(Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities) is not only an exceptional addition to the discussion around identity formation and the making of Polishness, but also offers new insights on colonial comparative studies, and an invaluable addition to theories of eugenics and race science in Europe.” * History: The Journal of the Historical Association *
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Ohio University Press Apartheids Black Soldiers Unnational Wars and
Book SynopsisThousands of Black troops served in South Africa’s security forces in Namibia and Angola during apartheid. Bolliger’s new research leads him to reject their common depiction as “collaborators,” challenge the portrayal of the wars in which they fought as struggles for national liberation, and reveal the complexity of South Africa’s military culture.Trade Review“Lennart Bolliger’s exceptionally well-researched monograph on the experiences of Black African soldiers who fought in the war for Namibian independence on the side of apartheid South Africa makes a major contribution to our knowledge of that war and of what happened to those who fought in it. Apartheid’s Black Soldiers is essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of the liberation of Southern Africa and the region’s postliberation politics.” -- Chris Saunders, professor emeritus of historical studies, University of Cape Town“Lennart Bolliger’s book explains with admirable clarity the vexed, troubling history of African soldiers who fought in Southern Africa’s ‘un-national wars’ against liberation armies engaged in the long struggle against colonialism and apartheid. Drawing on a rich collection of oral interviews with the soldiers themselves, Apartheid’s Black Soldiers refuses any easy readings of these soldiers‘ motivations. Instead, Bolliger situates soldiers within the local, regional, and transnational contexts of their recruitment, their basic economic needs, and their interpretations of the immediate political and military circumstances engulfing them. As a result, this book offers key new perspectives on African soldiers who are often described as ‘sellouts’ but whose motivations were far more complicated than that.” -- Michelle R. Moyd, author of Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa"Bolliger pays close and careful attention to the military cultures of the different units that made up South Africa’s counterinsurgency spearhead. He also attends to the afterlives of apartheid’s Black soldiers, showing the complex ways they have found a political voice in contemporary Namibia and tried to eke out an existence on the margins of South African society—or on the battlefields of Africa’s never-ending wars. This is an important book, and it will add immeasurably to our understanding of war in southern Africa.” -- Jacob S. T. Dlamini, author of Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National ParkTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Un-national Soldiers in Southern Africa during and after Decolonization 1. “The Ovambos Did Not Take Part in the War against the Germans”: Fractures and Divisions in Colonial Namibia and Southern Angola 2. “We Live between Two Fires”: The Reasons for Joining the Apartheid Security Forces in Northern Namibia, 1975–89 3. “The War Was Very Complicated”: The Formation and Development of 32 Battalion, 1975–84 4. “Every Force Has Its Own Rules”: The Military Cultures of South Africa’s Security Forces in Namibia and Angola 5. “Dictation Comes from the Victor”: The Postwar Politics of Black Former Soldiers in Namibia, 1989–2014 6. “We Are Lost People”: Citizenship and Belonging of Black Former Soldiers in South Africa, 1989 to the Present Conclusion: Un-national Wars of Decolonization and Their Legacies Notes Note on Interviews Conducted by the Author Bibliography Index
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Ohio University Press War and Society in Colonial Zambia 19391953
Book SynopsisThe first major study of its kind, this book shows—from a Zambian perspective—how Northern Rhodesia, then a British colony, organized and deployed human, military, and natural resources during the Second World War. New research and oral histories further demonstrate the war’s social and industrial impact on Zambia in the immediate postwar period.Trade Review“In this first comprehensive study of Zambia during the Second World War, Alfred Tembo has produced a text that is both elegantly written and based upon meticulous and well-presented original research. Throughout, Tembo makes seamless linkages between the grand political/strategic levels and the ‘on the ground’ participation in the conflict of this important African colony. The accessibility of its presentation makes this book ideal for academics, historians, and general interest readers alike.” -- Ashley Jackson, professor of imperial and military history, King's College London, and visiting fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford“Alfred Tembo sheds light on how the Second World War affected Zambian society in this excellent study. Based on a close reading of hitherto underutilized Zambian archives, this book is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in the effects of the war in a colonial context.” -- Andrew Cohen, coauthor of Labour and Economic Change in Southern Africa, c.1900–2000: Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi“Historians, political scientists, economists, and general readers will certainly find this empirical study a treasure trove of information on the important contributions Africans made to the British war effort, not to mention the high price they paid for their participation in a conflict not of their own making.” * H-SAfrica, H-Net Reviews *Making excellent use of neglected Zambian archives, Alfred Tembo surveys the impact of World War II on colonial Zambia, or Northern Rhodesia, as it was then called. * Foreign Affairs *
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Ohio University Press Village Work Development and Rural Statecraft in
Book SynopsisThis detailed and groundbreaking history of rural Ghanaian statecraft details the crucial importance that local village development systems have on regional and national scales.Trade Review“Village Work provides new, critical perspectives on debates about development in both scholarship and practice. By placing the village at the center of development politics, Wiemers challenges conventional understandings of statecraft and humanizes the development process at all levels, detailing the improvisations and inconsistencies that lay behind the promise of ‘progress.’”“Village Work offers a sophisticated analysis of small-scale development projects in rural Ghana while bringing visibility to the ‘hinterland statecraft’ of local communities as they navigated the rising developmentalist states in the twentieth century. Deftly written and superbly argued, Wiemers illuminates the ‘useable fictions’ of rural sameness that government and NGO employees operationalized to justify their homogenizing of villages and rural space across Africa.”“Village Work is a timely and fascinating multilayered history of development in Ghana. Using the village of Kpasenkpe in northern Ghana as the focus, Alice Wiemers has written a penetrating study of the ‘performance’ of development in Africa from the family unit to the village, national, and international levels.”“This is a phenomenal piece of scholarship, which will be of interest to scholars of development, statecraft, and labor in Africa and beyond.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *
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Ohio University Press Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
Book SynopsisFrom debates over the aesthetics of birds in the urban landscape to how horse racing enhanced imperial power to the ways in which water navigation impacted aquatic creatures, Saheed Aderinto argues that it is impossible to comprehend the full extent of imperial domination without considering the colonial subjecthood of animals.Trade Review“By embracing nonhuman animals within the historical frame, Saheed Aderinto significantly expands our understanding of the African colonial encounter. With his fresh conceptual analysis, liberated from narrow disciplinary strictures, the author’s multifaceted research is a tour de force set to change the trajectory of African historiography.”“We have missed a major story of empire by failing to understand its operations at the level of species. Saheed Aderinto’s tremendous book challenges us to see Nigeria, colonial subjecthood, and all animals in integrative and provocative new ways."“This book is a wonderful addition to animal-sensitive histories of Africa, offering an important contribution toward rethinking coloniality and postcoloniality by adding the analytic lens of species to a palimpsest of gender, class, and race. Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa reconsiders the history of relations not only between people and animals but also between various groups of people with animals as a fulcrum.”
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Ohio University Press Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa The
Book SynopsisFrom debates over the aesthetics of birds in the urban landscape to how horse racing enhanced imperial power to the ways in which water navigation impacted aquatic creatures, Saheed Aderinto argues that it is impossible to comprehend the full extent of imperial domination without considering the colonial subjecthood of animals.Trade Review“By embracing nonhuman animals within the historical frame, Saheed Aderinto significantly expands our understanding of the African colonial encounter. With his fresh conceptual analysis, liberated from narrow disciplinary strictures, the author’s multifaceted research is a tour de force set to change the trajectory of African historiography.”“We have missed a major story of empire by failing to understand its operations at the level of species. Saheed Aderinto’s tremendous book challenges us to see Nigeria, colonial subjecthood, and all animals in integrative and provocative new ways."“This book is a wonderful addition to animal-sensitive histories of Africa, offering an important contribution toward rethinking coloniality and postcoloniality by adding the analytic lens of species to a palimpsest of gender, class, and race. Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa reconsiders the history of relations not only between people and animals but also between various groups of people with animals as a fulcrum.”
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Ohio University Press Carceral Afterlives Prisons Detention and
Book SynopsisThis social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central to both the exertion of and challenges to state power in postcolonial Uganda. The book also illustrates the persistent imbrication of prisons, punishment, politics, and struggles for decolonization and freedom across the globe.Trade Review“Katherine Bruce-Lockhart engages in a meticulous analysis of Africa’s postcolonial penal systems through stories of how they were imagined and experienced in Uganda by the confined, workers, and their families. Carceral Afterlives is painstakingly researched, unparalleled on many levels, and a must-read book for anyone interested in postcolonial state politics, global histories of prisons, and confinement. A trailblazer and momentous.” -- Nakanyike B. Musisi, coauthor of Decentralisation and Transformation of Governance in Uganda“Carceral Afterlives demonstrates the centrality of prisons to postcolonial African politics. Using an array of written, oral, and visual sources and an elegant prose, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart provides a fascinating analysis of how prisons, punishment, and politics intertwined in postcolonial Uganda, where the state, whether military or civilian, conceptualized incarceration as a powerful tool for advancing its political agendas by drawing upon a strong colonial legacy of confinement, which in the process turned carceral spaces into sites of resistance and struggle. An impressive work of scholarship, this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on African penal histories and the global history of punishment. A must-read for scholars of East African history as well.” -- Dior Konaté, author of Prison Architecture and Punishment in Colonial Senegal“This is a major contribution to the historiography of postcolonial Uganda, dealing with a topic on which historical research is long overdue. Bruce-Lockhart has provided a richly detailed and authoritative account of prisons and the experience of incarceration under Obote and Amin in particular. In so doing, the author offers new insights into the workings, as well as the dysfunction, of the Ugandan state during the early years of independence.” -- Richard J. Reid, author of A History of Modern Uganda“In her strikingly original book, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart explores how the early rulers of independent Uganda, who had previously denounced colonial prisons as violent and racist instruments of European imperialism, paradoxically redeployed mass detention as an integral arm of the new state. Creatively employing a variety of sources such as memoirs, letters, and journalistic reports, she also captures the voices of prisoners and their political allies who turned prisons into sites of struggle and dissent. Carceral Afterlives constitutes an important contribution to the stimulating new field of transnational prison history.” -- Mary S. Gibson, author of Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism, 1861–1914“This important book reveals the continuities, adaptations, and negotiations of Ugandan incarceration across the colonial and postcolonial eras. Pieced together from a remarkable range of sources, including oral histories, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart conceptualises the modern prison’s symbolic and penal functions as inherently colonial by highlighting the recursive nature of its purpose, character, and experience. Meticulously researched and elegantly framed, this book sets a new agenda for understanding the historic and transnational influences that inflect incarceration in the modern age.” -- Clare Anderson, author of Convicts: A Global HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Captivity and Freedom in Postcolonial Uganda 1. Colonial “Cinderella”: Prisons and Punishment in the Colonial Period 2. A National Prisons Service 3. Professional Identities and Institutional Imaginaries: Prison Work in the Postcolonial State 4. Detention and Dissent in the Obote I Years 5. “Dungeons,” Disappearance, and Detention: Punishment during the Amin Years 6. State of War: Conflict and Confinement after Amin Conclusion Contested Pasts, Contested Futures Notes Bibliography Index
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Ohio University Press Carceral Afterlives Prisons Detention and
Book SynopsisThis social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central to both the exertion of and challenges to state power in postcolonial Uganda. The book also illustrates the persistent imbrication of prisons, punishment, politics, and struggles for decolonization and freedom across the globe.Trade Review“Katherine Bruce-Lockhart engages in a meticulous analysis of Africa’s postcolonial penal systems through stories of how they were imagined and experienced in Uganda by the confined, workers, and their families. Carceral Afterlives is painstakingly researched, unparalleled on many levels, and a must-read book for anyone interested in postcolonial state politics, global histories of prisons, and confinement. A trailblazer and momentous.” -- Nakanyike B. Musisi, coauthor of Decentralisation and Transformation of Governance in Uganda“Carceral Afterlives demonstrates the centrality of prisons to postcolonial African politics. Using an array of written, oral, and visual sources and an elegant prose, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart provides a fascinating analysis of how prisons, punishment, and politics intertwined in postcolonial Uganda, where the state, whether military or civilian, conceptualized incarceration as a powerful tool for advancing its political agendas by drawing upon a strong colonial legacy of confinement, which in the process turned carceral spaces into sites of resistance and struggle. An impressive work of scholarship, this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on African penal histories and the global history of punishment. A must-read for scholars of East African history as well.” -- Dior Konaté, author of Prison Architecture and Punishment in Colonial Senegal“This is a major contribution to the historiography of postcolonial Uganda, dealing with a topic on which historical research is long overdue. Bruce-Lockhart has provided a richly detailed and authoritative account of prisons and the experience of incarceration under Obote and Amin in particular. In so doing, the author offers new insights into the workings, as well as the dysfunction, of the Ugandan state during the early years of independence.” -- Richard J. Reid, author of A History of Modern Uganda“In her strikingly original book, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart explores how the early rulers of independent Uganda, who had previously denounced colonial prisons as violent and racist instruments of European imperialism, paradoxically redeployed mass detention as an integral arm of the new state. Creatively employing a variety of sources such as memoirs, letters, and journalistic reports, she also captures the voices of prisoners and their political allies who turned prisons into sites of struggle and dissent. Carceral Afterlives constitutes an important contribution to the stimulating new field of transnational prison history.” -- Mary S. Gibson, author of Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism, 1861–1914“This important book reveals the continuities, adaptations, and negotiations of Ugandan incarceration across the colonial and postcolonial eras. Pieced together from a remarkable range of sources, including oral histories, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart conceptualises the modern prison’s symbolic and penal functions as inherently colonial by highlighting the recursive nature of its purpose, character, and experience. Meticulously researched and elegantly framed, this book sets a new agenda for understanding the historic and transnational influences that inflect incarceration in the modern age.” -- Clare Anderson, author of Convicts: A Global HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Captivity and Freedom in Postcolonial Uganda 1. Colonial “Cinderella”: Prisons and Punishment in the Colonial Period 2. A National Prisons Service 3. Professional Identities and Institutional Imaginaries: Prison Work in the Postcolonial State 4. Detention and Dissent in the Obote I Years 5. “Dungeons,” Disappearance, and Detention: Punishment during the Amin Years 6. State of War: Conflict and Confinement after Amin Conclusion Contested Pasts, Contested Futures Notes Bibliography Index
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Ohio University Press Acholi Intellectuals Knowledge Power and the
Book SynopsisPatrick William Otim argues that the Acholi people of northern Uganda, who helped Europeans spread colonial rule and Christianity, were far more politically savvy than previously understood.Trade ReviewA landmark study in African intellectual history. Patrick William Otim’s Acholi Intellectuals puts the acquisition and deployment of erudition and skill at the center of the contradictions and ironies shaping this region’s political-cultural history. In accessible prose and well-chosen detail, Otim demonstrates that complex networks of elder men and women cultivated skill and ambition among a small number of exceptional Africans who reinvented power in a fractious nineteenth century, a short colonial century of administration and bureaucracy, and a later twentieth century of nationalist frictions. -- David Schoenbrun, Northwestern UniversityEngagingly and intimately written, Acholi Intellectuals reveals how Acholi cultivated talent across a broad sweep of nineteenth and twentieth century East African history, and how historical actors both seized the opportunities and navigated the perils that successive political regimes offered. Focused on the lives of healers, war leaders, and royal messengers—who became clerks, translators, converts, writers, and elders—Patrick William Otim has written a masterful study that sets a new standard for the study of exemplary individuals in African history. -- Daniel Magaziner, Yale UniversityPatrick William Otim has written a fascinating, innovative, and meticulously documented account of Acholi history. He shows that intellectuals who played major roles before conquest worked to create an Acholi-inflected version of colonial society. We were mistaken to imagine that the most important post-conquest transformations revolved around chiefs. Instead, people who were already influential in the realm of symbolism and knowledge reimagined and recreated their own society. -- Steven Feierman, University of PennsylvaniaPatrick William Otim’s definitive history of Acholi intellectuals analyzes their embodied knowledge, revealing their centrality in Acholiland’s colonial history. Deeply researched, Otim’s clear, engaging, and imaginative analysis interweaves rich sources and historiographies, yielding fresh critical insights on Acholi intellectuals’ intermediary roles within Acholiland’s politics. -- Michelle Moyd, Michigan State UniversityWith this book, Patrick William Otim becomes a leader in rethinking Uganda’s intellectual history. Drawing deeply from ethnographic and Acholi archival sources, Otim moves us beyond the political terrain of chiefs into the inner worlds of war leaders, royal messengers, public healers, poets, musicians, and aspiring historians. This work also manages to push Ugandan history writing beyond its obsession with kingdoms toward a more inclusive vision of republican history writing. Scholars and students of Ugandan and African political thought owe Otim a tremendous debt of gratitude. -- Jonathon L. Earle, Centre CollegePatrick William Otim’s evidence...refutes the division of African history into precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods....Otim’s work invites historians of Africa to think again about history we thought we knew. -- Holly Elisabeth Hanson, Mount Holyoke College“An important project … an impressive achievement.” -- Joel Cabrita, author of Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
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Duke University Press States of Imagination
Book SynopsisThe state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. Contributors focus on a variety of locations from Guatemala, Pakistan, and Peru to India and Ecuador; they study what the state looks like to those seeing it from the vantage points of rural schools, police departments, small villages, and the inside of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Focusing on the micropolitics of everyday state-making, the contributors examine the mythologies, paradoxes, and inconsistencies of the state through ethnographies of diverse postcolonial practices. They show how the authority of the state is constantly challenged from the local as well as the global and how growing demands to confer rights and recognition to ever more citizens, organizations, and institutionTrade Review“This outstanding volume contains an excellent introductory discussion of current trends of thinking and research on the state. The first-rate articles by a mix of well- and less-known scholars are sophisticated, nuanced, and accessible.”—George Marcus, author of Ethnography Through Thick and Thin“With its wealth of empirical description coming from all parts of the postcolonial world, this book is an immensely valuable contribution to the new ethnography of the state. Hansen and Stepputat have put together a richly varied but carefully organized and theoretically productive set of studies.”—Partha Chatterjee, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: States of Imagination / Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat I. State and Governance “Demonic Societies”: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty / Mitchell Dean Governing Population: The Integrated Child Development Services Program in India / Akhil Gupta The Battlefield and the Prize: ANC’s Bid to Reform the South African State / Steffen Jensen Imagining the State as a Space: Territoriality and the Formation of the State in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe II. State and Justice The South African Truth and Reconcilliation Commission: A Technique of Nation-State Formation / Lars Buur Reconstructing National Identity and Renegotiating Memory: The Work of the TRC / Aletta J. Norval Rethinking Citizenship: Reforming the Law in Postwar Guatemala / Rachel Sieder Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai / Thomas Blom Hansen III. State and Community Before History and Prior to Politics: Time, Space, and Territory in the Modern Peruvian Nation-State / David Nugent Urbanizing the Countryside: Armed Conflict, State Formation, and the Politics of Place in Contemporary Guatemala / Finn Stepputat In the Name of the State? Schools and Teachers in an Andean Province / Fiona Wilson The Captive State: Corruption, Intelligence Agencies, and Ethnicity in Pakistan / Oskar Verkaaik Public Secrets, Conscious Amnesia, and the Celebration of Autonomy for Ladakh / Martijn van Beek Bibliography About the Contributors Index
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Duke University Press Black Nationalism in the New World
Book SynopsisFrom nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism in the United States and the Caribbean. Bringing to bear a comparative, diasporic perspective, Robert Carr examines the complex roles race, gender, sexuality, and history have played in the formation of black national identities in the U. S. and Caribbean—particularly in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana—over the past two centuries. He shows how nationalism begins as an impulse emanating 'upwards' from the bottom of the social and economic spectrum and discusses the implications of this phenomenon for understanding democracy and nationalism. Black Nationalism in the New World combines geography, political economy, and subaltern studies in readings of noncanoniTrade Review“Robert Carr’s book places at our disposal a virtually unique comparative study of cultural production in the United States and the Caribbean.”—Hortense Spillers, Cornell University“This book is really smart, interesting, and useful—in short, an incredible addition to scholarship in the areas it addresses. It is an outstanding work.”—Wahneema Lubiano, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. F(o)unding Black Capital: Money, Power, Culture, and Revolution in Martin R. Delany’s Blake; or The Huts of America 2. Of What Use Is History? Blood, Race, Nation, and Ethnicity in Pauline Hopkin’s New Woman 3. From Larva to Chrysalis: Multicultural Consciousness and Anticolonial Revolution in Ralph de Boissière’s Crown Jewel 4. The New Man in the Jungle: Chaos, Community, and the Margins of the Nation-State 5. The Masculinization of Mothering: The Oakland Black Panthers and the Black Body Politic 6. A Politics of Change: Sistren, Subalternity, and the Social Pact in the War for Democratic Socialism 7. Geopolitics/Geoculture: Denationalization in the New World Order Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press Decolonizing Dialectics
Book SynopsisGeo Maher brings the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a decolonized dialectics that is suited to the struggle against the legacies of slavery and colonialism while also breaking the impasse between dialectics and postcolonial theory.Trade Review"Theoretically informed and mindful of the correctives real history offers to speculation, this book is a noteworthy contribution to critical social theory and decolonial discourses. Recommended. Graduate students through faculty." -- B. G. Chang * Choice *"Decolonizing Dialectics marks an important contribution to a growing body of literature concerned with decolonizing critical – and, more broadly speaking, political – theory, as well as a worthwhile addition to the works devoted to the dialectical tradition and its critics. In particular, Ciccariello-Maher’s readings of Fanon and Dussel offer a valuable new take on their respective engagements with dialectical thought, and on the complex and fraught relationship that dialectics shares with decolonization, theoretically and practically." -- Michael Elliott * Contemporary Political Theory *"[A] rather unique and sophisticated project that at times leaves the reader breathless from the elegant speed with which it moves through concepts.... [T]his book functions as an opening, by recentering dialectical reason and placing it in service of a radical anti-systemic practice, to successive discussions...." -- Joshua Moufawad-Paul * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"Decolonizing Dialectics makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the dialectic of unity and difference and how difference becomes antagonism within and beyond the legacies of colonialism. It is essential reading in the renewal of debate about the philosophy of internal relations and the systematic dialectic." -- Adam David Morton * Progress in Political Economy *"Decolonizing Dialectics’ timeliness lies in the fact that it gives us an approach to these tensions as academics, which exploits their decolonial potential, and affirms, after and through Fanon, their necessary violence, rather than just settle for reciprocity, closure, or another book on dialectics." -- Shona N. Jackson * Antipode *"This clear, well-written and refreshingly forthright book aims to decolonize dialectics and to wield that decolonized dialectics (never, Ciccariello-Maher insists, ‘the dialectic’) as a method to understand and further decolonization. . . . This is an important work best read in the spirit in which it is written: with urgency, anger, hope and a refusal to simply accept what is present." -- David M Bell * Political Studies Review *"The author makes important contributions to the fields of dialectics, Marxism, postmodernism, and postcolonial studies, and he has an aptitude for making tough philosophical questions accessible. Decolonizing Dialectics provides an excellent framework for understanding the major theorists he uses as well as Hegel, Marx, Foucault, and several other scholars." -- Luis M. Sierra * Journal of Global South Studies *"A light-footed and richly textured work, which demonstrates how radically different historical moments can speak to one another; how dialectics animated by a certain mobility and openness might help to explain, and ultimately transcend, the legacies of colonialism and slavery." -- Alex Millen * Journal of American Studies *"Maher’s book is an important effort to redefine the dialectic in a more radical and indeed, violent manner." -- William L. Remley * Anarchist Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Ruptures 1 1. Jumpstarting the Class Struggle 23 2. Toward a New Dialectics of Race 47 3. The Decolonial Nation in Motion 75 4. Latin American Dialectics and the Other 103 5. Venezuela's Combatiive Dialectics 123 Spirals 153 Notes 171 Bibliography 219 Index 233
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Duke University Press Decolonizing Dialectics
Book SynopsisGeo Maher brings the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a decolonized dialectics that is suited to the struggle against the legacies of slavery and colonialism while also breaking the impasse between dialectics and postcolonial theory.Trade Review"Theoretically informed and mindful of the correctives real history offers to speculation, this book is a noteworthy contribution to critical social theory and decolonial discourses. Recommended. Graduate students through faculty." -- B. G. Chang * Choice *"Decolonizing Dialectics marks an important contribution to a growing body of literature concerned with decolonizing critical – and, more broadly speaking, political – theory, as well as a worthwhile addition to the works devoted to the dialectical tradition and its critics. In particular, Ciccariello-Maher’s readings of Fanon and Dussel offer a valuable new take on their respective engagements with dialectical thought, and on the complex and fraught relationship that dialectics shares with decolonization, theoretically and practically." -- Michael Elliott * Contemporary Political Theory *"[A] rather unique and sophisticated project that at times leaves the reader breathless from the elegant speed with which it moves through concepts.... [T]his book functions as an opening, by recentering dialectical reason and placing it in service of a radical anti-systemic practice, to successive discussions...." -- Joshua Moufawad-Paul * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"Decolonizing Dialectics makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the dialectic of unity and difference and how difference becomes antagonism within and beyond the legacies of colonialism. It is essential reading in the renewal of debate about the philosophy of internal relations and the systematic dialectic." -- Adam David Morton * Progress in Political Economy *"Decolonizing Dialectics’ timeliness lies in the fact that it gives us an approach to these tensions as academics, which exploits their decolonial potential, and affirms, after and through Fanon, their necessary violence, rather than just settle for reciprocity, closure, or another book on dialectics." -- Shona N. Jackson * Antipode *"This clear, well-written and refreshingly forthright book aims to decolonize dialectics and to wield that decolonized dialectics (never, Ciccariello-Maher insists, ‘the dialectic’) as a method to understand and further decolonization. . . . This is an important work best read in the spirit in which it is written: with urgency, anger, hope and a refusal to simply accept what is present." -- David M Bell * Political Studies Review *"The author makes important contributions to the fields of dialectics, Marxism, postmodernism, and postcolonial studies, and he has an aptitude for making tough philosophical questions accessible. Decolonizing Dialectics provides an excellent framework for understanding the major theorists he uses as well as Hegel, Marx, Foucault, and several other scholars." -- Luis M. Sierra * Journal of Global South Studies *"A light-footed and richly textured work, which demonstrates how radically different historical moments can speak to one another; how dialectics animated by a certain mobility and openness might help to explain, and ultimately transcend, the legacies of colonialism and slavery." -- Alex Millen * Journal of American Studies *"Maher’s book is an important effort to redefine the dialectic in a more radical and indeed, violent manner." -- William L. Remley * Anarchist Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Ruptures 1 1. Jumpstarting the Class Struggle 23 2. Toward a New Dialectics of Race 47 3. The Decolonial Nation in Motion 75 4. Latin American Dialectics and the Other 103 5. Venezuela's Combatiive Dialectics 123 Spirals 153 Notes 171 Bibliography 219 Index 233
£25.19
Duke University Press Critique of Black Reason
Book SynopsisEminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to show how the conjoining of the biological fiction of race with definitions of Blackness have been and continue to be used to uphold oppression.Trade Review"A very demanding yet incredibly powerful book." * Augsburger Allgemeine *"[I]ncontrovertible reading on the complex dynamic between race and belonging in twenty-first century societies. Though global in reach, the work is primarily infused with insightful analysis and perspectives on the United States, South Africa, and France, spaces in which the historical legacies of slavery, apartheid, and colonialism remain of pertinence to this day, while also being locations in and from which, the author himself has gained particular familiarity as integral components of his intellectual journey and trajectory. . . . [B]rilliant and pioneering. . . ." -- Dominic Thomas * Europe Now *“Critique of Black Reason constitutes an important move in bringing together francophone and anglophone postcolonial thought and is a timely demonstration of the re-invigorating potential of both critical thought and translation.” -- Hannah Grayson * Postcolonial Text *“Achille Mbembe’s Critique de la Raison Nègre . . . [is] a book that you want to shout about from the rooftops, so that all your colleagues and friends will read it. My copy, only a few months old, is stuffed with paper markers at many intervals, suggesting the richness of analysis and description on nearly every page. . . . This is certainly one of the outstanding intellectual contributions to studies of empire, colonialism, racism, and human liberation in the last decade, perhaps decades. . . . A brilliant book.” -- Elaine Coburn * Decolonization *“Critique of Black Reason is an illuminating and brilliant addition to Mbembe’s corpus. It is the kind of book, I suspect, that will become compulsory reading for undergraduate and graduate classes worldwide." -- Manosa Nthunya * The African Independent *"Achille Mbembe is one of the paradoxical optimists who predict the worst without ever losing their faith in the future. . . . Admittedly, slavery has been abolished and colonialism is a thing of the past. But today new forms of alienation have arisen, the Other continues to be stigmatized, and the monster of capitalism reaches for its dream of an limitless horizon. An inevitability? Not necessarily, shoots back this thinker, who invites us to reimagine the geography of the world." -- Maria Malagardis * Libération *"A lucid, thoughtful and sometimes poetic work, with phrases you want to underline on every page. Mbembe is a voice that needs to be heard, in the current discussion about racism and immigration in Europe." -- Peter Vermaas * NRC Handelsblad *"An outstanding intellectual contribution to the state of the art of race scholarship. It is a beautifully written work that begs for every sentence to be quoted. . . . Critique of Black Reason is an inescapable and vital work of race scholarship that animates the reader to imagine new radical possibilities for humanity. As such, the book is the must-read for scholars interested in critical race studies, colonial and postcolonial studies." -- Mante Vertelyte & Morten Stinus Kristensen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"For me the most important African thinker today, Achille Mbembe has published the Critique of Black Reason. A very great book, encompassing the perspectives of the African continent as well as the political challenges facing the whole world." -- Jean-Marie Durand * Les inrockuptibles *"The book is a must for neoliberal and postmodern theory enthusiasts looking for insights on social constructs and perceptions of race relations. . . . The book is a challenge for the world to shift its thought pattern towards what has been disconnected traditionally as black history, to an incorporated collective human history bearing its roots in black history." -- Mary Abura * Journal of Contemporary African Studies *"Achille Mbembe has returned with a work that will surely prove provocative: Critique of Black Reason. This nod to Kant’s philosophic classic is, however, devilishly well-chosen since this work speaks to the never-ending tendency to place Europe at the world’s 'center of gravity.' Achille Mbembe . . . fights against established ideas and lazy thinking." * Am Magazine *"With characteristic elocution Achille Mbembe in Critique of Black Reason attends to the challenge . . . to write Africa/Blackness in all its manifestations." -- Lwazi Lushaba and Ziyana Lategan * South African Historical Journal *Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. The Becoming Black of the World 1 1. The Subject of Race 10 2. The Well of Fantasies 38 3. Difference and Self-Determination 78 4. The Little Secret 103 5. Requiem for the Slave 129 6. The Clinic of the Subject 131 Epilogue. There Is Only One World 179 Notes 185 Index 209
£72.25
Duke University Press Empire of Neglect The West Indies in the Wake of
Book SynopsisChristopher Taylor shows why nineteenth-century British West Indian letters were remarkably un-British by exploring how West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas in response to the liberalization of the British Empire and the resulting imperial neglect.Trade Review"Dexterously brings together a range of long-neglected texts and voices. . . . Empire of Neglect fruitfully adds to critical conversations about shifts in late coloniality in the long nineteenth century and will interest Americanists working in a variety of period subfields." -- Duncan Faherty * American Literary History *"In Empire of Neglect, Christopher Taylor presents a compelling argument that free trade undermined not only the commercial protections the colonists expected but also the social contracts they felt they were owed. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- W.T. Martin * Choice *"A brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed study. . . . Simply put, Empire of Neglect is a field-making book. Because it sets itself so resolutely against not only the methodological protocols, but even the typical discursive structures of work explicitly or tacitly aligned with economic liberalism, it is by no means an easy or accessible read. Rather, it insists upon the dissonance that comes with questioning the basic premises of existing Americanist and Victorianist understandings of the Atlantic and the Hemispheric discursive frames. But for that reason, this remarkable piece of scholarship rewards careful reading and rereading, and promises to gradually but inexorably shape all that comes after it." -- Martha Schoolman * Review 19 *"Empire of Neglect is exemplary for the ways it illustrates the worlds of critique and self-fashioning that are opened when we look elsewhere and otherwise." -- Adom Getachew * Small Axe *"In a world dominated by the competitive logic of free trade, what happens to those groups and places whose diminished profitability consigns them to feelings of abandonment and neglect? Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect gives that question a hefty dose of historical depth. ... His book will be of interest not only to specialists but also to anyone who is receptive to a set of sensitive reflections on the price that has been paid by any group or region that loses its centrality because the logic of market capitalism has passed it by." -- Theodore Koditschek * Victorian Studies *"Taylor's contribution to the study of liberalism and empire should be widely read, as neglect and abandonment are still matters of heated argument and material consequence in both postcolonial and still-colonial territories around the world." -- René Johnannes Kooiker * Modern Language Quarterly *"[Empire of Neglect] is an important study that, by treating neglect as a political concept deeply connected to British liberalism, has much to say about how some in the Caribbean responded to that new reality." -- Christienna Fryar * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: Managing Neglect 1. The Political Economy of Neglect 33 2. "Them Worthless Ones": Emancipatory Liberalism in Jamaica 72 Interregnum: Between Worlds 3. Imperial Abandonment and Hemispheric Alternatives 107 Part Two: Building New Worlds 4. Uncle Bolívar's Children 147 5. "A Purely 'Mercial Transaction" 187 Coda. Americas That Were and Americas to Come 229 Notes 239 Bibliography 275 Index 301
£98.60
Duke University Press From the Tricontinental to the Global South
Book SynopsisAnne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental and calls for a revival of the Tricontinental's politics as a means to strengthen racial justice and anti-neoliberal struggles in the twenty-first-century.Trade Review"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is particularly effective in its close reading of cultural texts and thus makes a significant contribution to cultural studies and cultural criticism. In centering Latin American and Black Radical intellectual and artistic traditions in its discussion of left transnational politics, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism, it effectively shifts the focus from Western Marxist traditions to racialized, oppressed, and dispossessed scholar-activists. Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Black Power studies, and subfields of history, sociology, and political science that focus on power relations, political organizing, and social movements will benefit from this framing." -- Charisse Burden-Stelly * Black Perspectives *"Mahler convincingly argues that movements many readers may be familiar with, such as the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, and Black Lives Matter, were inheritors of or collaborators in this Tricontinental aesthetic. Reproductions of striking film stills and bold graphic design make the book as visually captivating as it is wonderfully written—modeling the Tricontinental’s commitment to a well-designed revolution." -- Amanda Reid * Public Books *"[A] rich, interdisciplinary history of the Tricontinental. . . . Historians of the United States will find interesting the many links between conceptions of the Global South and of the American South." -- Nico Slate * Journal of American History *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is a compelling read and should appeal to a broad range of scholars who are interested in racial transnational social movements, racial capitalism, and the politics of culture in the Americas." -- Juan De Lara * Aztlán *"A conceptually rich examination of the political and aesthetic vocabularies produced by and around the Tricontinental, combining rigorous historical investigation with close formal analysis of works of literature, film, and visual culture. . . . Not only does From the Tricontinental to the Global South offer a long history of resistant politics in which Latin American, Afro-descendant, and African American intellectuals have played a central role, it provides a long view of contemporary understandings of the Global South, which both grounds the concept and gives it renewed critical heft. It is crucial reading for anyone interested in and working on the Global South today." -- Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra * Chasqui *“From the Tricontinental to the Global South is both interesting and challenging. . . . This would be a good book to use in graduate seminars on global history, the history of radicalism, and theory and history. Specialists will appreciate Mahler’s attention to detail and how she employs different types of evidence to analyze a largely forgotten radical movement.” -- Evan C. Rothera * African Studies Quarterly *"This book enriches the oeuvre of contemporary Cold War studies and critiques of neoliberalism. It builds on transnational scholarship that moves the Global South and Third Worldism away from national or regional paradigms to explain oppression and its resistance. … Mahler should be commended for the voluminous material she dissects and for jumping into the thorniness of these overlapping issues." -- John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco * American Historical Review *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South offers an indispensable historical perspective for understanding our tumultuous present; until Mahler releases an updated edition with a Tricontinentalist reading of the immediate post-George Floyd era, readers can only wait in anticipation." -- Daniel Cooper * American Literary History *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is an outstanding and at times astounding book…. This book is likely to actually reshape the way fields, such as Latinx and postcolonial studies, define their relation to a centrally important but chronologically neglected history. I can imagine many graduate students not only adding this book to their Ph.D. reading lists but rethinking the entire trajectory of their future work because of it." -- Alfred J. López * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Beyond the Color Curtain: From the Black Atlantic to the Tricontinental 19 2. In the Belly of the Beast: African American Civil Rights through a Tricontinental Lens 68 3. The "Colored and Oppressed" in Amerikkka: Trans-Affective Solidarity in Writings by Young Lords and Nuyoricans 106 4. "Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café": Racial Politics in the "Latin, African" Nation 160 5. The (New) Global South in the Age of Global Capitalism: A Return to the Tricontinental 200 Conclusion. Against Ferguson? Internationalism from the Tricontinental to the Global South 241 Notes 247 Bibliography 299 Index 329
£75.65
Duke University Press Empire of Neglect
Book SynopsisChristopher Taylor shows why nineteenth-century British West Indian letters were remarkably un-British by exploring how West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas in response to the liberalization of the British Empire and the resulting imperial neglect.Trade Review"Dexterously brings together a range of long-neglected texts and voices. . . . Empire of Neglect fruitfully adds to critical conversations about shifts in late coloniality in the long nineteenth century and will interest Americanists working in a variety of period subfields." -- Duncan Faherty * American Literary History *"In Empire of Neglect, Christopher Taylor presents a compelling argument that free trade undermined not only the commercial protections the colonists expected but also the social contracts they felt they were owed. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- W.T. Martin * Choice *"A brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed study. . . . Simply put, Empire of Neglect is a field-making book. Because it sets itself so resolutely against not only the methodological protocols, but even the typical discursive structures of work explicitly or tacitly aligned with economic liberalism, it is by no means an easy or accessible read. Rather, it insists upon the dissonance that comes with questioning the basic premises of existing Americanist and Victorianist understandings of the Atlantic and the Hemispheric discursive frames. But for that reason, this remarkable piece of scholarship rewards careful reading and rereading, and promises to gradually but inexorably shape all that comes after it." -- Martha Schoolman * Review 19 *"Empire of Neglect is exemplary for the ways it illustrates the worlds of critique and self-fashioning that are opened when we look elsewhere and otherwise." -- Adom Getachew * Small Axe *"In a world dominated by the competitive logic of free trade, what happens to those groups and places whose diminished profitability consigns them to feelings of abandonment and neglect? Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect gives that question a hefty dose of historical depth. ... His book will be of interest not only to specialists but also to anyone who is receptive to a set of sensitive reflections on the price that has been paid by any group or region that loses its centrality because the logic of market capitalism has passed it by." -- Theodore Koditschek * Victorian Studies *"Taylor's contribution to the study of liberalism and empire should be widely read, as neglect and abandonment are still matters of heated argument and material consequence in both postcolonial and still-colonial territories around the world." -- René Johnannes Kooiker * Modern Language Quarterly *"[Empire of Neglect] is an important study that, by treating neglect as a political concept deeply connected to British liberalism, has much to say about how some in the Caribbean responded to that new reality." -- Christienna Fryar * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: Managing Neglect 1. The Political Economy of Neglect 33 2. "Them Worthless Ones": Emancipatory Liberalism in Jamaica 72 Interregnum: Between Worlds 3. Imperial Abandonment and Hemispheric Alternatives 107 Part Two: Building New Worlds 4. Uncle Bolívar's Children 147 5. "A Purely 'Mercial Transaction" 187 Coda. Americas That Were and Americas to Come 229 Notes 239 Bibliography 275 Index 301
£25.19
University of Pittsburgh Press Cuba Between Empires 18781902 Pitt Latin American Series
Book SynopsisIn an unusually powerful book that will appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist, Louis A. Perez, Jr., recounts the story of the critical years when Cuba won its independence from Spain only to fall in the American orbit.
£45.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Dictating Development
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£37.95
ME - Fordham University Press Empires Wake
Book SynopsisTraces development of Irish literary modernism from the 1920s to the 1990s through the writings of James Joyce, John Millington Synge, Samuel Beckett, Sean O’Faolain, Frank McCourt, and the Blasket Island autobiographers, Tomas O’Crohan and Maurice O’Sullivan. Considers Irish literature in relation to Irish nationalism and aftermath of British empire.Trade Review"In place of of the conventional aesthetic and chronological distinction between Revivalism, Modernism, and Counter-Revivalism (the latter primarily associated with modes of critical realism and naturalism), Quigley skillfully redeploys the conception of "late modernism" developed by Jed Esty to map the relationship between forms of English modernism and imperial decline." -Journal of Postcolonial Writing "A cogent, compelling, and significant intervention into the field of modern Irish literary studies on the one hand, and an intriguing account of the politics of so-called global or transnational modernism on the other. It's a seasoned and sure-handed piece of scholarly work; Quigley writes with force and precision, never skirting issues that require patient excavation and consideration." -- -Jed Esty University of Pennsylvania "Emerging from a recent wave of new modernist scholarship, Mark Quigley's first book, Empire's Wake, is a rich exploration of Irish postcolonial writing and modernist form...Overall, this timely study highlights the critical potential in shifting the parameters of modernism." -Modernism/modernity (Project Muse)
£40.50
