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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFascinating…Hinderaker’s meticulous research shows that the Boston Massacre was contested from the beginning…[Its] contested meanings have plenty to tell us about America’s identity, past and present. -- Mark Spencer * Wall Street Journal *In Boston’s Massacre, Eric Hinderaker brilliantly unpacks the creation of competing narratives around a traumatic and confusing episode of violence. With deft insight, careful research, and lucid writing, Hinderaker shows how the bloodshed in one Boston street became pivotal to making and remembering a revolution that created a nation. -- Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804Seldom does the book appear that compels its readers both to rethink a signal event in American history and reexamine powerful assumptions about historical knowledge itself. It’s even rarer for an author to accomplish so formidable a feat in prose of sparkling clarity and grace. But this is such a book, and Eric Hinderaker just such an author: Boston’s Massacre is a gem. -- Fred Anderson, author of Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766Hinderaker illuminates the events of March 5, 1770, from a host of unexpected angles, from its military origins and the possibility of an additional shooter, to the Kent State comparison that thrust itself upon the nation two hundred years later. -- Woody Holton, author of Abigail AdamsEric Hinderaker widens our understanding of the Boston Massacre and the origins of the American Revolution. By setting this stirring event in the context of New England’s involvement in Britain’s colonial wars, and by depicting the occupying British army as a social force of considerable power, this elegant book gives us a far richer account of how military occupation pushed Boston into rebellion. -- Mark A. Peterson, author of The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New EnglandIn his examination of the 1770 Boston Massacre, Hinderaker deftly explores the characters of British leaders, American administrators, and those who stirred what many considered a mob…The author ably exposes the symbolic import of the massacre as it defined the limits of legitimate authority and of legitimate popular protest. * Kirkus Reviews *Hinderaker claims no definitive version of the event, instead offering a thoughtful meditation on the episode’s significance for shared American identity and memory. Untangling the complex circumstances under which Britain stationed thousands of troops in Boston in the peacetime of 1768, Hinderaker maps the colonial anxieties regarding imperial control that came to a head with the shootings…He ends with a provocative…reflection on the massacre’s symbolic resonance with more recent examples of police brutality, making this book important reading for anyone interested in questions regarding the limits of authority and protest. * Publishers Weekly *Readers are left with a nuanced understanding of the way we shape historical narratives after any major event… A compelling and well-researched account of the Boston Massacre, for readers seeking more refined studies of early American history. -- Jessica Holland * Library Journal *Using the Boston Massacre as a case study, [Hinderaker] highlights how moments of extreme intensity shape an observer’s understanding of that moment and the subsequent narratives that followed. -- M. A. Byron * Choice *In this engaging study, Eric Hinderaker offers a masterclass in how to peel back the layers of data, scholarship, and propaganda to understand what we call the Boston Massacre…Thanks to Hinderaker we learn how over the past 250 years the Boston Massacre has been refought, rethought, or quietly restated. -- Bob Carey * The Metropole *

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Book SynopsisJohn D. Garrigus provides a profound historical corrective, showing that enslaved Blacks in Saint-Domingue were hardly complacent before the Haitian Revolution. While scholars have looked beyond the island’s shores for the forces that inspired rebellion, Garrigus documents African resistance and political organizing decades before the 1791 revolt.Trade ReviewOffers a fresh perspective on the resistance of the enslaved…Focusing on individual figures such as the African-born Médor, [Garrigus] makes a plausible case for his revisionist version of the Makandal story and sheds a revealing light on the wider origins of the Haitian revolution. -- Sudhir Hazareesingh * Times Literary Supplement *One of the most exciting and important history books I read this year…Lucidly and grippingly written, Garrigus’s book is a model of historical scholarship, with vivid portraits of individual enslaved people. -- David A. Bell * Chronicle of Higher Education *Brilliant…challenges a core myth – that the revolution was a sudden eruption – revealing instead a gripping tale of a population on the path to revolution over decades, a story of communities of secret keepers resisting while building the loyalties that made the revolution, once ignited, a success. -- Desirée Baptiste * Times Literary Supplement *A riveting read and a transformative contribution to our understanding of resistance and revolution in the Caribbean and the Atlantic World. Garrigus vividly brings us into a world shaped by the work of divining, healing, and resistance, showing us how this world nurtured the alternative visions for the future that ultimately made the Haitian Revolution imaginable—and therefore possible. -- Laurent Dubois, author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian RevolutionThe clearest, most sophisticated account I have read of the cultures of resistance that would help fuel the Haitian Revolution. Garrigus shows that enslaved men and women developed a range of complex, long-term political visions and pursued them by organizing across plantations, a powerful response to the argument that plantation slavery, especially in the Caribbean, was so harsh that it blocked political development among the enslaved. This important book is essential reading for historians of the Atlantic world and African diaspora, and should be read widely outside the academy. -- James Sidbury, author of Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic, 1760–1830An engaging, sympathetic portrait of a population on the path to revolution. Drawing on sources very few historians have studied and linking familiar events in novel ways, Garrigus gives us an imaginative reworking of the theme of slave resistance and how it related to the Americas’ greatest slave uprising. -- David Patrick Geggus, author of Haitian Revolutionary StudiesConcise, creative, and deeply researched. Combining ethnohistory with archival sleuthing, Garrigus uncovers communities of slave resistance in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in the decades prior to the Haitian Revolution. African healing and ritual practices were not only used as a means of self-preservation in an atmosphere of chronic hunger, overwork, physical abuse, and disease; they also created communities among the enslaved that envisioned, and worked toward, a better world beyond the degradation of slavery. -- Paul Cheney, author of Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue

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Book SynopsisThe British Empire governed more than half the world’s Muslims. John Slight traces the empire’s complex interactions with the Hajj—the annual pilgrimage to Mecca—from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. He gives voice to pilgrims and officials alike.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent book… It will be indispensable for anyone interested in the Hajj. -- William Roger Louis * Times Literary Supplement *[Slight] explores this important but largely neglected history of Hajj and does so by tracing British involvement with the regulation and performance of this Islamic ritual from early 1860s until the Suez Crisis of 1956… Based on a combination of archival and secondary sources, this is an unusually informative, meticulously researched and highly readable book… This book will prove to be a useful source of reference on the subject for future researchers and writers alike. -- Muhammad Khan * Muslim News *Impressively lucid, this is a ‘must-buy’ addition for anyone interested in the Hajj and Western involvement in it. -- John Darwin, University of OxfordThe ambit of this book is formidable. The British were almost everywhere, globally, between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, and this book tells of their activities vis-à-vis the Hajj. Slight has done a wonderful job of making a huge subject transparent and understandable. -- Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell UniversityThis is a wildly ambitious book, covering a mind-bogglingly complex array of geographies and periods, requiring deep familiarity with African, Middle Eastern, Indian, and Southeast Asian histories. Slight balances all of this with tremendous ease and an engaging style. He is among the very few scholars with the skill set needed to speak to scholars of the British Empire, the Islamic world, and global history with virtually equal authority. The result is the most wide-ranging and significant book on the colonial-era hajj to date. -- Michael Christopher Low * Journal of British Studies *This is a fascinating book, and particularly timely for those who ponder the nature of the West’s relationship with the Muslim world…This is a valuable, intellectually robust but still highly accessible work that does much to elevate our understanding of a truly significant phenomenon within the history of the British Empire. More importantly, Slight has done much to clarify our understanding and recognition of the inherently Islamic nature of that empire in significant respects. -- Christian Tripodi * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisIn a bold argument, Marilyn Lake shows that race and reform were mutually supportive as Progressivism became the political logic of settler colonialism at the turn of the 20th century. She points to exchanges between American and Australasian reformers who shared racial sensibilities, along with a commitment to forging an ideal social order.Trade ReviewProgressive reform will never look the same again. Marilyn Lake definitively shows how turn-of-the-century Australian reformers helped shape American political culture and the great extent to which Australians and Americans shared a mindset steeped in settler colonialism. This book’s evidence of their ‘subjective affinities’ is transformative. -- Nancy F. Cott, Harvard UniversityThis is a landmark book that provides an integral account of the circulatory systems that connected white reform communities in the large Anglophone societies that lay on either side of the Pacific. In abundant detail, Lake shows how the democratic and racialist programs of these reformers were two sides of the same settler–colonialist coin. -- Doug Rossinow, coeditor of Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US HistoryFew Americans know that in the early twentieth century Australia passed the first minimum-wage laws and gave women the vote; but American reformers were inspired by their counterparts in the antipodes. Marilyn Lake has written a stunning book about transpacific Progressivism. -- Mae M. Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern AmericaLake powerfully invokes the Australasian connection to U.S. politics and culture, substantiating the range and depth of those ties and illuminating political thought at both ends of the geographical divide. A worthy counterpart to Daniel Rodgers’s iconic Atlantic Crossings, Progressive New World offers a fresh and valuable take on the transnational Progressive era. -- Leon Fink, author of The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order[An] important new book…U.S. historians will need to reassess the assumption that progressive reform was either an internal product or a result of transatlantic dialogues alone…The treatment of settler colonialism is Lake’s most arresting contribution. * Australian Book Review *Imitation might be the greatest form of flattery, but if Americans flatter themselves that the rest of the free world has always wanted to emulate their democratic institutions and national habits, Lake’s book plainly demonstrates that, at the turn of the 20th century, the flow of imitation was decidedly in Australia’s direction. America’s brightest minds and most ardent reformers looked to Australia to see which way the winds of change blew. -- Clare Wright * Sydney Morning Herald *Makes an important contribution to our understanding of Progressivism, and Lake’s insistence that we see American history through the lens of settler colonialism provides a powerful framing to look at familiar histories anew. -- Kornel S. Chang * Labor *

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Book SynopsisAround 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world's trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers. Yet the story of its 17th-century beginnings has remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra's account of the Company's formative years sheds light on one of the most powerful corporations in the history of the world.Trade ReviewMishra has written an important book. This is not just a book that is extraordinarily well-researched but it also fills a major gap in the literature. The first hundred years of the Company has received very little attention from historians…More importantly, the book demonstrates the close and almost inevitable connection that existed between the English East India Company from its inception and the English state. -- Rudrangshu Mukherjee * The Wire *Original, well-conceptualized, and thoroughly researched, A Business of State is an extremely engaging and important work that offers a much-needed examination of the origins of the East India Company. Mishra reveals just how deeply this history is embedded in the political and commercial history of the early Stuart regime—and vice versa. -- Philip Stern, author of The Company-StateA striking and important work that fills a large gap in our understanding of the early history of the East India Company, one of the major institutions at the heart of the British empire. A Business of State explores the many dimensions of the political life of this important corporate body, throwing fresh light on English domestic politics, corporate and political culture, as well as on an institution crucial in the development of British imperialism. -- Michael Braddick, author of God’s Fury, England’s FireA Business of State is an important work of scholarship. The analysis is imaginative and meticulous, the writing authoritative and compelling. Mishra’s innovative approach to the early history of the English East India Company makes this an essential book in British and imperial history. -- Alison Games, author of The Web of EmpireThis impressive volume deserves wide readership…A Business of State gives readers much to think, both about the early seventeenth century and about today. -- Robert A. Pierce * Sixteenth Century Journal *

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Book SynopsisExamines the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. This title shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining the modern nation in both countries.Trade Review"Peter van der Veer's bracing, audacious book is sure to stir up much-needed debate. Challenging the canonical narratives that have governed analysis of colonialism, culture, and religion, he advances a bold thesis about their complicity across boundaries and nationalist categories. Deeply learned and elegantly presented, Imperial Encounters is a gripping work of the scholarly imagination."—Edward W. Said, Columbia University"This is a splendid book. Peter van der Veer has drawn on a wide range of fascinating readings to elaborate the post-colonial thesis that the modern histories of Britain and India have been mutually constitutive. I believe he is absolutely right in insisting on the fact—and demonstrating it so ably—that modern ideas like nation, religion, and race must be understood, if they are to be understood fully, through an interactional approach. Anyone interested in recent thinking about the joint history of colonialism and modernity should not miss this work."—Talal Asad, City University of New York"Peter van der Veer has made extremely important contributions to the study of Indian history and society. In recent years, he has taken a particularly important approach, one the puts him at the cutting edge of historical work, in placing the European metropole and the Asian colonized into the same historical space. In this volume, he explores one aspect of the subject in depth and provides a coherent single-voice narrative. The scholarship is of the highest level, and van der Veer writes very well, often with a clever nuance or twist."—Barbara Metcalf, University of California, DavisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE Secularity and Religion 14 The Separation of Church and State 16 Religion 24 Concluding Remarks 28 CHAPTER TWO The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire 30 The Moral State in Britain 34 The Colonial Mission in India 41 Concluding Remarks 53 CHAPTER THREE The Spirits of the Age: Spiritualism and Political Radicalism 55 British Spirits 58 India's Spiritual Heritage 66 Concluding Remarks 77 CHAPTER FOUR Moral Muscle: Masculinity and Its Religious Uses 83 Muscular Christianity 85 Hindustani Honor 94 The Internal Enemy 101 Concluding Remarks 104 CHAPTER FIVE Monumental Texts: Orientalism and the Critical Edition of India's National Heritage 106 Muller's Science 107 India's Adoption of German Wissenschaft 116 Texts and the Nationalist Imaginaire 122 Speaking, Writing, Watching 129 Concluding Remarks 131 CHAPTER SIX Aryan Origins 134 The Aryan Myth 136 From Language to Skulls 144 Race, Class and Criminality 150 Concluding Remarks 155 Conclusion 158 Notes 161 Bibliography 179 Index 191

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The essays should be read by all students of modern international history; henceforth, no historian will be able to plead linguistic handicaps as an excuse for failing to incorporate the Japanese experience into a serious analysis of modem colonialism and imperialism."--Akira Iriye, International History Review

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Book SynopsisBy the mid-nineteenth century, the most prominent British and French liberal thinkers vigorously supported the conquest of non-European people. This work explains that this reflected a rise in civilizational self-confidence, as theories of human progress became more triumphalist, less nuanced, and less tolerant of cultural difference.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2006 First Book Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005 "Jennifer Pitts ... [shows] that support for imperialism is not inherent to liberalism by demonstrating that prominent 18th- and early-19th-century liberals in Britain and France were deeply critical of imperialism... The book is beautifully written, and the scholarship is outstanding."--Choice "Jennifer Pitts helps us to see early-nineteenth-century imperial discourse in a new light by showing more clearly what came before."--Michael Bentley, Victorian Studies "An impressive and even pathbreaking piece of work."--Theodore Koditschek, Journal of Modern History "This book is a brilliantly successful attempt to account for the apparent transition from the fierce, bitter assault on the idea of empire by the writers of the second half of the eighteenth century...to the often self-congratulatory, high-minded endorsement of a new kind of imperial mission less than half a century later... Pitt's finest pages...are on Tocqueville and the Algerian question."--Anthony Pagden, Perspectives on Politics "This is an excellent book about late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century liberals and empire. Based on a wide range of material, which Pitts handles impressively, the book begins from a broad but workable definition of liberalism as involving a notion of individual rights and an attempt to widen social sympathies. Pitts deserves much credit for directing attention to liberalism's ability to negotiate difference in a context of empire and for her well-written, inspiring, and thorough analysis."--Casper Sylvest, Political Studies Review "This [is a] thoughtful and engaging book."--John Cramsie, The Historian "Jennifer Pitts ... undermines the case for the reality of anti-imperialism by depicting the rise of 'imperial liberalism' as a major intellectual trend in both Britain and France between c. 1780 and 1850. She does so in a careful, acute and lucid account of the ideas on empire of Adam Smith, Burke, Bentham, the Mills, and de Tocqueville."--Anthony Howe, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Liberalism, Pluralism, and Empire 3 Scope and Summary 7 Historical Contexts 11 PART 1: CRITICS OF EMPIRE 23 Chapter 2: Adam Smith on Societal Development and Colonial Rule 25 The Causes and Complexity of Development in Smith's Thought 27 Progress, Rationality, and the Early Social Stages 34 Moral Progress and Commercial Society 41 Moral Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Judgments 43 Smith's Critique of Colonies 52 Chapter 3: Edmund Burke's Peculiar Universalism 59 The Exclusions of Empire 59 Systematic Oppression in India 63 Moral Imagination: Empire and Social Criticism 71 Geographical Morality and Burke's Universalism 77 The Politics of Exclusion in Ireland 85 Burke as a Theorist of Nationality 96 PART 2: UTILITARIANS AND THE TURN TO EMPIRE IN BRITAIN 101 Chapter 4: Jeremy Bentham: Legislator of the World? 103 Utilitarians and the British Empire 103 Bentham's Critique of Colonial Rule 107 A Rereading of Bentham's Work on India 115 Chapter 5: James and John Stuart Mill: The Development of Imperial Liberalism in Britain 123 James Mill: An Uneasy Alliance of Utilitarianism and Conjectural History 123 J.S. Mill: Character and the Revision of the Benthamite Tradition 133 Nationality and Progressive Despotism 138 Civilizing Backward Societies: India and Ireland 146 Colonial Reform and the Governor Eyre Episode 150 Conclusion 160 PART 3: LIBERALS AND THE TURN TO EMPIRE IN FRANCE 163 Chapter 6: The Liberal Volte-Face in France 165 Shifting Political Contexts: Britain, France, and Imperial Projects 165 Condorcet: Progress and the Roots of the Mission Civilisatrice 168 Constant and the Distrust of Empire 173 Desjobert and the Marginalization of Anti-imperialism 185 Tocqueville's Sociology of Democracy and the Question of European Expansion 189 Expansion and Exclusion in America 196 Chapter 7: Tocqueville and the Algeria Question 204 Tocqueville as an Architect of French Algeria 204 From Assimilation to Domination: Tocqueville's Early Colonial Vision 207 The British Empire as Rival and Model 219 Slavery in the French Empire 226 Universal Rights, Nation Building, and Progress 230 Chapter 8: Conclusion 240 Eighteenth-Century Criticism of Empire 242 Democracy and Liberal Anxieties in the Nineteenth Century 247 Late Liberal Misgivings about Imperial Injustice 254 Notes 259 Bibliography 343 Index 363

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Book SynopsisExplores the crucial notion of colonial difference in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which author calls border thinking. This title expands the horizons of debates under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America.Trade Review"Postmodernism would remain Eurocentric without a counteracting postcoloniality--without the subaltern rationality that Mignolo sees emerging at the border of modernity/coloniality."--Barry Allen, Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction On Gnosis and the Imaginary of the Modern/Colonial World System PART ONE: IN SEARCH OF AN OTHER LOGIC Border Thinking and the Colonial Difference PART TWO: I AM WHERE I THINK: THE GEOPOLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE AND COLONIAL EPISTEMIC DIFFERENCES Post-Occidental Reason: The Crisis of Occidentalism and the Emergenc(y)e of Border Thinking Human Understanding and Local Interests: Occidentalism and the (Latin) American Argument Are Subaltern Studies Postmodern or Postcolonial? The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations PART THREE: SUBALTERNITY AND THE COLONIAL DIFFERENCE: LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND KNOWLEDGES "An Other Tongue": Linguistics Maps, Literary Geographies, Cultural Landscapes Bilanguaging Love: Thinking in between Languages Globalization/Mundializacion: Civilizing Processes and the Relocation of Languages and Knowledges Afterword An Other Tongue, An Other Thinking, An Other Logic Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association""[A] necessary reappraisal of French imperialism, a velvet empire indeed."---Francis Ghiles, Arab Weekly"Skillfully organized and enjoyable to read, A Velvet Empire is a must read for historians of modern France and 19th-century colonialism." * Choice Reviews *"A must-read for general readers and scholars interested in the evolution of French imperialism in the XIX century."---Giampaolo Conte, The Journal of European Economic History"A Velvet Empire makes a compelling case for informal empire as a core principle of French global expansion in the mid-nineteenth century . . . It situates an understudied period, long seen as an outlier, within the imperial longue durée, and its deft analysis of the interrelationship between foreign policy, economic actors, and culture will offer a useful road map for scholars exploring similar questions from different perspectives."---Maureen DeNino, Nineteenth-Century French Studies

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Book Synopsis"Hopkins takes readers from the colonial era to today to [posit that], far from diverging, the United States and Western Europe followed similar trajectories throughout this long period, and how America's dependency on Britain and Europe extended much later into the nineteenth century than previously understood"--Dust jacket flap.Trade Review"One of BBC History Magazine's Books of the Year""[A] brilliant account. . . . [N]o one before him has analyzed the administration of the American dependencies on such a scale and with such exactitude."---Wm. Roger Louis, Wall Street Journal"[American Empire] is a slow-burning but high-impact argument encompassing almost the entire sweep of the history of the United States from the Seven Years War to its most recent war of choice. . . . With his gift for witty summations, his serious investment in comparison, and his dispassionate outsider’s view on the pieties of American history, Hopkins has rendered the topic of American empire not merely interesting but truly compelling again."---David Armitage, Times Literary Supplement"Hopkins is a master of storytelling on a grand scale, and the narrative abounds with moments--the little known life story of Harry Washington, one of George Washington’s slaves; the siege of British-occupied Kut, Iraq, in 1915--that resonate across the centuries. . . . This is a good book." * Publishers Weekly *"A doggedly detailed history of imperial America, beginning before the establishment of the republic and continuing to the present. . . . A definitive account of a complex subject that's hard to pin down." * Kirkus Reviews *"Mr. Hopkins deserves credit for tackling so vast and demanding a subject."---Aram Bakshian Jr., Washington Times"Hopkins’s provocative study will be ofvalue to international relations specialists."---L.M. Lees, Choice"[I]n this immense, feisty, delightfully pugilistic book, one can’t help but appreciate [Hopkins’] intellectual fireworks, his depth of reading, and his conviction that history sits as the exacting judge of even emperors."---Joseph Fronczak, Jacobin"Sweeping, ambitious and hugely illuminating, [this] book is surely the definitive account of perhaps the most underestimated ‘European’ empire of all."---Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine"This volume is not the first to attempt to fit the United States into global patterns of historical change, but it is undoubtedly among the most successful . . . . Hopkins provides a synthesis of American history and historiographical reviews of dozens of topic that deserve frequent future consultation by both students and advanced scholars."---Amy S. Greenberg, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Hopkins deserves great credit for the book’s range . . . . He has written a go-to account of economics and American empire, powerfully advanced the effort to de-exceptionalize American empire, and brought four major island outposts of American empire into a common interpretative frame. He has also raised provocative questions about the causal relations between economics and imperial power. Truly, there is much to applaud."---Kristin Hoganson, Diplomatic History"American Empire is a thoughtful, well written, and deeply researched book . . . . Hopkins has made his mark, and has made it well. American Empire is a provocative, perceptive, and compelling step towards a richer integration of American, European, and world history."---Michael A. Verney, Journal of Global History"It should be read by diplomatic historians and specialists in international relations. It is witty, engaging, well‐written, and erudite, and provides a source of hypotheses that could fuel multiple research agendas."---Noel Maurer, Economic History Review"Hopkins’s comprehensive synthesis produces an interpretation that is extensive, persuasive and repeatedly innovative . . . . It would be a rare scholar indeed who did not learn much from this book, even in areas where they previously, perhaps naïvely, thought to claim a modest expertise. They may, in the light of reading this book, quietly think again."---Alex Goodall, English Historical Review"Few scholars have succeeded so brilliantly at capturing the broad reach of imperialism throughout U.S. history while situating this story within the tectonic shifts of global politics over the course of three centuries . . . American Empire provides a compelling narrative with sparkling details and demonstrates a deep mastery of wide-ranging scholarship. For these reasons, it will be an enduring touchstone of scholarship on the subject for years to come."---Brandon Mills, The American Historical Review"Hopkins provides a welcome new panoramic framework of American diplomacy that is often lacking in modern writings."---Matthew Hill, Fides Et Historia"Monumental. . . . Hopkins has written an incredibly learned work. . . . On the links between globalization as an economic process and the American empire, Hopkins’s book will be the first port of call for all scholars."---Ian Tyrrell, Amerikastudien"An exceptional read."---Jim Miles, Palestine Chronicle"I . . . recommend this book by the historian A. G. Hopkins, who understands how to ‘use the past to offer a view of the present,’ and thereby offers surprising insights for those curious about the future of the United States."---Seunghoon Han, Asian Review of World Histories

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Frantz Fanon Prize, Caribbean Philosophical Association""Winner of the ASA Best Book Prize, African Studies Association""Winner of the First Book Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association""Co-Winner of the W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientists""Co-Winner of the J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics & History Section of the American Political Science Association""Winner of the ISA Theory Best Book, Theory Section of the International Studies Association""One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2020""It’s been a bad decade for politics, but a great decade for political theory. Three standouts for me were Shatema Threadcraft’s Intimate Justice, Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire, and Kathi Weeks’s The Problem With Work."---Amia Srinivasan, The Chronicle of Higher Education"[A] marvellous book . . . tracing a new narrative of the nature and significance of anti-colonial thought and politics over the middle decades of the 20th century. Challenging the standard view of decolonisation as a moment of European-style nationbuilding, Getatchew offers instead an account of anti-colonial theory and practice as "worldmaking"."---Jonathan Egid, New Humanist"A compelling look at how Black internationalist thought evolved throughout the postcolonial period and how its successes and failures . . . continue to shape global politics today."---Jennifer Williams, Foreign Policy

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“For those looking for a compact and lucid account of why decolonization occurred, and what it meant, this is the place to start.”—Krishan Kumar, Times Literary Supplement“A remarkably useful book. . . . The authors modestly describe it as a historical essay which is designed to be an introductory survey. That does not do justice to its strikingly thoughtful approach and the wealth of ideas that are compressed into its pages.”—John M. MacKenzie, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History“First-rate.”—Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs“A succinct, highly accessible survey.”—Choice“Impressive. Jansen and Osterhammel adroitly navigate both the individual stories of different countries and empires and the broader scholarly debates that encompass those stories. . . . A quintessential introduction to the end of empire.”—Jessica Lynne Pearson, H-France Review“A rich synthesis.”—Michael Collins, EuropeNow

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Book Synopsis"Compelling, provocative, and learned. This book is a stunning and sophisticated reevaluation of the American empire. Hopkins tells an old story in a truly new way--American history will never be the same again."--Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office.Office.Trade Review"One of BBC History Magazine's Books of the Year"

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Book Synopsis"A magisterial study...by a historian at the top of his game. Political theorists, intellectual historians, and students of empire are once again in Duncan Bell's debt for his deep research, elegant analysis, and consistently acute judgments."--David Armitage, Harvard UniversityrsityTrade Review"Runner-Up for the 2018 Francisco Guiccardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies Association""One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books""Bell's masterful study represents one of the best efforts yet to untangle the many ideological and political knots that bind liberalism and imperialism."---G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs"In what is a preeminent study of the social and political construction of the world, Bell goes way beyond the typical discussions by demonstrating the shifting definitions of empire and the political ramifications of conquest. In a detailed historical and political analysis of colonial interventions in human history, he meticulously ‘unpicks' the connections that lie at the heart of both imperialism and human freedom. It is indeed a brilliant amalgam of history and politics, thought-provoking and relevant at a juncture when the nation and its concept are subjects of passionate, wide-reaching debate and of profound interest to sociologists and postcolonial theorists."---Shelley Walia, Frontline"In this collection of articles and essays, Bell achieves an impressive synthesis of liberal political thought and British ideologies of empire." * Choice *"Reordering the World collects together some of Duncan Bell's most notable writings of the past 10 years, focusing in particular on British imperial thought in the Victorian era. . . . It is a mark of the quality of Bell’s scholarship, and the integration of his thought, that their assembly here works as well--indeed, better--than many freestanding monographs."---Paul Sagar, Political Studies Review"Subtle, well-documented, and fine-grained, but still extraordinarily wide-ranging study of liberal imperialism in all its many shades."---Joshua Simon, The Review of Politics"The conceptual grasp is exceptionally broad, the range of texts and problems addressed similarly imposing, and the command of literature from across several disciplines hugely impressive. Bell is a compelling writer on political argument, and every pen-portrait of a thinker and every anatomy of a doctrine is beautifully turned and superbly supported."---Alex Middleton, English Historical Review"This volume will no doubt become a classic, to be read alongside Bell’s justly acclaimed first book, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900 (Princeton). With their compelling turn of the focus of attention toward reflection and debates on the settler colonies, these monographs dramatically change the way political thought on empire is understood and evaluated."---Georgios Varouxakis, Victorian Studies"This book provides a wealth of historical material."---Paul Patton, The European Legacy

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association""[A] necessary reappraisal of French imperialism, a velvet empire indeed."---Francis Ghiles, Arab Weekly"Skillfully organized and enjoyable to read, A Velvet Empire is a must read for historians of modern France and 19th-century colonialism." * Choice Reviews *"A must-read for general readers and scholars interested in the evolution of French imperialism in the XIX century."---Giampaolo Conte, The Journal of European Economic History"A Velvet Empire makes a compelling case for informal empire as a core principle of French global expansion in the mid-nineteenth century . . . It situates an understudied period, long seen as an outlier, within the imperial longue durée, and its deft analysis of the interrelationship between foreign policy, economic actors, and culture will offer a useful road map for scholars exploring similar questions from different perspectives."---Maureen DeNino, Nineteenth-Century French Studies

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Phillips and Sharman’s achievement is to pull together myriad literatures over three centuries and most of the globe, to find patterns only a synthetic treatment can reveal. . . . Lucid, sweeping, and economical"---David Armitage, Times Literary Supplement"Outsourcing Empire serves as an up-to-date survey of an essentialtopic for world historians." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A welcome addition to a fast-growing literature on the corporate origins of Europeanempire in the early modern world. . . . Outsourcing Empire is a highly accessible work of scholarship that will appeal particularly to students of international history."---David Veevers, Journal of British Studies"Outsourcing Empire provides a solid contribution to the typically Eurocentric-focused scholarship of international politics."---Daniel Blumlo, World History Connected

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Modern and multidisciplinary. . . . Settling for Less provides the most comprehensive analysis of settler colonialism."---Kyosuke Kikuta, The Developing Economies"Prodigious research and presentation." * Choice *"McNamee’s book is mandatory reading for scholars interested in both the causes and consequences of colonization. . . . Charles Tilly once warned us not to crow too loudly about the death of empires. But Lachlan McNamee’s excellent, accessible, and well-written book has given us reason to crow. Slowly but surely, the structural force of modernization works against the strategic goals of empire."---Jacob Gerner, Perspectives on Politics"McNamee asks big questions, constructs an original and provocative theory, unearths previously unused, indeed, unknown data, and compiles persuasive evidence to support his hypotheses . . . Settling for Less is an extraordinary first book of the sort to which authors aspire."---David A. Lake, Political Science Quarterly

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Book SynopsisAn original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America. Here, he explores the increasingly uneasy relations between Britain and its American colonies and the social movements through which the thirteen colonies overcame their seemingly deep internal antagonisms. Elster documents the importance of the radical uncertainty about their opponents that characterized both British and American elites and reveals the often neglected force of enthusiasm, and of emotions more generally, in shaping beliefs and in motivating actions. He provides the first detailed examinations of divide and rule as a strategy used on both sides of the Atlantic and of the rise and fall of collective action movements among the Americans. Elster also explains how the gradual undermining in A

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Book SynopsisWhen the US took control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam following the Spanish-American War, it was unclear to what degree these islands were actually part of the US. By looking at what became known as the Insular Cases, this work reveals how America resolved to govern these territories.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA complex and remarkable book that may well make an important paradigm shift in early American history.... Deftly combining intellectual, constitutional, and diplomatic history, Hendrickson significantly reorients our understanding of the creation of the American republic." —American Historical Review"Hendrickson's masterly work immediately joins Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas G. Onuf's Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions as one of the leading attempts to view the making of America in international perspective." —Journal of American History"An exemplary contribution to our understanding of the early republic." —William and Mary Quarterly"A remarkable book - engaging, learned, and well-written.... Highly recommended." —Choice"A splendid and important book." —International History Review"An extrordinary achievement." —Peter Onuf, author of Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood

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Book SynopsisExamines the historic links between the civil rights movements in Northern Ireland and the US.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Historical Links 2. Second class citizens 3. On the march 4. Irish America 5. Backlash 6. Heirs apparent Biographies of key Further Reading Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA study of the creolisation process which has shaped the CaribbeanTrade Review'Finally, a detailed study of Caribean people and their transnational experiences ... a fascinating collection of essays' -- Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law'A timely account and analysis of the lived reality of the hundreds of thousands of West Indians who now tenant the Caribbean Diaspora in Britain. A welcome addition to the growing literature on the creolisation process which has shaped the Caribbean over centuries' -- Professor Rex Nettleford, Vice Chancellor, University of the West IndiesTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface & Acknowledgements 1. Questions of theory, definition, purpose 2. A common trans-Atlantic heritage 3. Contemporary social and political dimensions of British-Caribbean transnationality 4. Africa and the Caribbean in Caribbean consciousness and action in Britain 5. Black America in Caribbean public discourse in Britain: Uncle Tom, Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis 6. Having a voice: Caribbean publishers and diasporic communication References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat was the legacy of the war in Iraq?Trade Review'Right now there can't be enough discussion of America's role in world politics ... This is a much-needed collection from leading scholars' -- Neil Stammers, Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations and Politics, University of Sussex'A first rate essay collection and a 'must read' for students of international law, politics and ethics' -- Jean L. Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University'It is extremely relevant ... the coverage is excellent' -- Professor Bob Fine, Director, Social Theory Centre, Warwick UniversityTable of ContentsDedication Acknoweldegements Amy Bartholomew: Introduction Part I. The American Imperial Project and the 'War to Remake the World' 1. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin: Theorising American Empire 2. Jurgen Habermas: Interpreting the Fall of a Monument 3. Ulrich Preuss: The Iraq War – Critical Reflections from 'Old Europe' Part II. Empire's Law: War, Human Rights, and International Law 4. Hans von Sponeck: The Conduct of the UN Before and After the 2003 Invasion 5. Denis Halliday: The UN and its Conduct During the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq 6. Doris E. Buss: Keeping its Promise: Use of Force and the New Man of International Law 7. Trevor Purvis: Looking for Life Signs in an International Rule of Law 8. Peter Swan: American Empire or Empires? Alternative Juridifications of the New World Order 9. Amy Bartholomew: Empire's Law and the Contradictory Politics of Human Rights Part III. Occupation, Democracy and Contradictions of Empire in Iraq 10. Nehal Bhuta: A New Bonapartism? 11. Andrew Arato: Empire's Democracy, Ours and Theirs 12. Haifa Zangana: Three Cyclops of Empire Building: Targeting the Fabric of Iraqi Society Part IV. Resisting Empire: Room for Manoeuvre? 13. Reg Whitaker: Drifting Away from the Edge of Empire: Canada in the Age of George W. Bush 14. David Coates: A 'Just War', or Just another of Tony Blair's Wars? 15. Fuyuki Kurasawa: The Uses and Abuses of Humanitarian Intervention in the Wake of Empire 16. Jayan Nayar: Taking Empire Seriously: Empire's Law, People's Law, and the World Tribunal in Iraq 17. Samir Amin: Whither the United Nations? Index

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Book SynopsisThe full picture of the impact of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe.Trade Review'A very important and timely contribution' -- Jasmin Hristov, University of British Colombia, author of Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2016) 'Existing works which seek to explain US foreign policy in imperial terms do not pay sufficient attention to the consistent use of para-state networks. Thomson corrects this lacuna, through detailed empirical analyses ... an original and distinctive book' -- Sam Raphael, Department of Politics and IR, University of Westminster 'A timely and critical look at the evolution, formation, and role of US propelled paramilitarism ... a vital study' -- Jeb Sprague, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (Monthly Review Press, 2012)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. US Empire: Statecraft in the Global South and Para-State Networks 2. Cold War Statecraft and the Covert Principle: ''Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government?" 3. US Counterinsurgency: The Growing Paramilitary Movement 4. The Institutionalization of Para-State Networks: Nicaraguan Contras and Beyond 5. Continuity After the Cold War: the Evolution of Para-State Networks 6. The Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror: Consolidation into the Future Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe full picture of the impact of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe.Trade Review'A timely and critical look at the evolution, formation, and role of US propelled paramilitarism ... a vital study' -- Jeb Sprague, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (Monthly Review Press, 2012)'Existing works which seek to explain US foreign policy in imperial terms do not pay sufficient attention to the consistent use of para-state networks. Thomson corrects this lacuna, through detailed empirical analyses ... an original and distinctive book' -- Sam Raphael, Department of Politics and IR, University of Westminster'A very important and timely contribution' -- Jasmin Hristov, University of British Colombia, author of Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2016)Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1. US Imperial Statecraft and Para-Institutional Forces 2. Covert Regime Change in the Early Cold War: 'Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government' 3. Counterinsurgent Statecraft: Militias, Mercenaries and Contractors 4. Reagan, Low-Intensity Conflict and the Expansion of Para-Institutional Statecraft 5. Continuity After the Cold War and the Consolidation of Para-Institutional Complexes 6. The War on Terror, Irregular Warfare and the Global Projection of Force Conclusions Notes Index

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Book SynopsisUrban marginalisation, police violence and institutional discrimination in modern FranceTrade Review'In this sweeping and erudite account, Paul Silverstein takes us a hundred years back to the colonial days before bringing us forward to the current era of La Haine, La Fouine, Zidane and Charlie Hebdo... a terrific introduction to French youth culture and the republic's unfinished struggle for egalite' -- Hisham Aidi, author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Pantheon), Winner of the American Book Award in 2015'Paul Silverstein is one of the foremost living exponents of historical anthropology, and this is his masterpiece.' -- Brian Klug, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Oxford, Author of Being Jewish and Doing Justice'Few people writing in English understand the complex situations - and the urgent stakes - of being Muslim in France today better than Paul Silverstein' -- Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin)'What Paul Silverstein offers here is an insightful analysis of French contemporary postcoloniality, which is group-based as well as individual-based ... his empirical and theoretical approach makes this very recommended reading to scholars and students of France alike' -- Olivier Esteves, Assistant Professor in British Studies, Lille III universityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction: Whither Postcolonial France? 1. Mobile Subjects 2. How Does It Feel to Be the Crisis? 3. The Muslim and the Jew 4. Dangerous Signs: Charlie Hebdo and Dieudonne 5. Anxious Football 6. Tracing Places: Parkour and Urban Space 7. Hip-Hop Nations Conclusion: Postcolonial Love Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisUrban marginalisation, police violence and institutional discrimination in modern FranceTrade Review'In this sweeping and erudite account, Paul Silverstein takes us a hundred years back to the colonial days before bringing us forward to the current era of La Haine, La Fouine, Zidane and Charlie Hebdo... a terrific introduction to French youth culture and the republic's unfinished struggle for egalite' -- Hisham Aidi, author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Pantheon), Winner of the American Book Award in 2015'Paul Silverstein is one of the foremost living exponents of historical anthropology, and this is his masterpiece.' -- Brian Klug, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Oxford, Author of Being Jewish and Doing Justice'Few people writing in English understand the complex situations - and the urgent stakes - of being Muslim in France today better than Paul Silverstein' -- Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin)'What Paul Silverstein offers here is an insightful analysis of French contemporary postcoloniality, which is group-based as well as individual-based ... his empirical and theoretical approach makes this very recommended reading to scholars and students of France alike' -- Olivier Esteves, Assistant Professor in British Studies, Lille III universityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction: Whither Postcolonial France? 1. Mobile Subjects 2. How Does It Feel to Be the Crisis? 3. The Muslim and the Jew 4. Dangerous Signs: Charlie Hebdo and Dieudonne 5. Anxious Football 6. Tracing Places: Parkour and Urban Space 7. Hip-Hop Nations Conclusion: Postcolonial Love Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding and transforming the universities' colonial foundations.Trade Review'A very well-researched and highly readable book that I feel compelled to highly recommend' -- Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching'A fine collection of knowledgeable yet readable essays which address a host of vital issues for our times: Eurocentrism, whiteness, power, free speech, inclusion and exclusion, and public higher education... A must-read for anyone interested in enhancing a historical understanding of our present through a consideration of what it means to decolonise' -- Priyamvada Gopal, Reader in Anglophone and Related Literatures, University of Cambridge'As Robbie Shilliam notes astutely in this timely volume, criticism of decolonising the university often overshadows the project itself. These collected reflections provide a much-needed analysis of the global movement to unsettle the Eurocentric white academy' -- Alana Lentin, Western Sydney UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: Decolonising the University? - Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nişancıoğlu PART I - CONTEXTS: HISTORICAL AND DISCIPLINARY 2. Rhodes Must Fall: Oxford and Movements for Change - Dalia Gebrial 3. Race and the Neoliberal University: Lessons from the Public University - John Holmwood 4. Black/Academia - Robbie Shilliam 5. Decolonising Philosophy - Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rafael Vizcaíno, Jasmine Wallace and Jeong Eun Annabel We PART II - INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVES 6. Asylum University: Re-situating Knowledge-exchange along Cross-border Positionalities - Kolar Aparna and Olivier Kramsch 7. Diversity or Decolonisation? Researching Diversity at the University of Amsterdam - Rosalba Icaza and Rolando Vázquez 8. The Challenge for Black Studies in the Neoliberal University - Kehinde Andrews 9. Open Initiatives for Decolonising the Curriculum - Pat Lockley PART III - DECOLONIAL REFLECTIONS 10. Meschachakanis, a Coyote Narrative: Decolonising Higher Education - Shauneen Pete 11. Decolonising Education: A Pedagogic Intervention - Carol Azumah Dennis 12. Internationalisation and Interdisciplinarity: Sharing acrossBoundaries? - Angela Last 13. Understanding Eurocentrism as a Structural Problem of Undone Science - William Jamal Richardson Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA taboo-busting critique of the transfer of wealth from the global South to the global North, which props up our 'progressive, developed' nations. A text that is set to become a standard reference work on imperialism for years to come, by a groundbreaking academic who is the only serious scholar in this subject.Trade Review'This is simply the most significant book published on the political economy of imperialism in the 21st Century, written by the foremost scholar of global imperialism today. Cope lays bare the fundamental structural contradiction in contemporary global capitalism: the pervasive class divisions which divide the Global North from South and are indelibly imprinted in the historical legacy of Western imperialism' -- Immanuel Ness, author of 'Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class' 'Global inequality isn't natural; it's created. Zak Cope explains how the rules of the international economy have been designed to benefit a few powerful nations in the Global North at the expense of most of the rest of the world. This is a brilliant intervention from one of the best scholars in the field' -- Jason Hickel, Goldsmiths, University of London 'Highly important and timely. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the nature of current global capitalism, rather than remaining hoodwinked by the mythology of equality and liberty' -- Amiya Bagchi, Monash UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: The Mechanics of Imperialism 1. Value Transfer 2. Colonial Tribute 3. Monopoly Rent 4. Unequal Exchange Part II: The Econometrics of Imperialism 5. Imperialism and its Denial 6. Measuring Imperialist Value Transfer 7. Measuring Colonial Value Transfer 8. Comparing Value Transfer to Profits, Wages and Capital Part III: Foundations of the Labour Aristocracy 9. Anti-Imperialist Marxism and the Wages of Imperialism 10. The Metropolitan Labour Aristocracy 11. The Native Labour Aristocracy Part IV: Social Imperialism Past and Present 12. Social Imperialism before WWI 13. Social Imperialism after WWI 14. Social Imperialist Marxism Conclusion: Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Today

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Book SynopsisHow is Britain enacting colonialism at home?Trade Review'Forceful ... Re-centres coloniality in Britain's past and present in a way that articulates what so many of us experience as the embodied reality of being in Britain, but so rarely get space to voice: that colonialism and its continued methods of control' -- Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, poet and author of 'Postcolonial Banter' (Verve Poetry Press, 2019)'An excellent and intelligently argued book. It neatly charts the transformation of colonial techniques 'at home' and how Britain was reconfigured in postcolonial terms' -- Gurminder K Bhambra, author of 'Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)'An indispensable read for those who want to both understand and put aside the at once Eurocentric and nationalist lens of Brexit debates' -- Angela Mitropoulos, author of 'Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia' (Minor Compositions, 2012) and 'Pandemonium Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve' (Pluto, 2020)'A must-read for understanding Britain today. Britain is colonial, and the beauty of Trafford's riveting book is to show just how much this simple fact explains of recent British history' -- Nick Srnicek, author of 'Platform Capitalism, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work' (Polity Press, 2016)'Evocative ... unflinchingly unveils the workings of race as a 'technology that forms part of the machinery of colonialism'. Essential reading for an understanding of how and why white Britishness negates those who are 'in, but not of' it' -- Alana Lentin, Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University and author of 'Why Race Still Matters' (Polity, 2020)'A fascinating exposé of Britain as an ongoing colonial project. Deftly provides us with the counternarratives we need to think imaginatively about how to dismantle and ultimately end British colonialism' -- Dr Nadine El-Enany, Co-Director, Centre for Research on Race and Law and author of '(B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire' (MUP, 2019)Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1. The Mouth of a Shark 2. Extractive Entanglements Across Alien Territories 3. Policing Empire after Empire 4. Homeland Warfare and Differential Racism 5. Extinction Politics 6. The End of Britain Notes Indicative Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA vital feminist manifesto from one of our most inspiring political voicesTrade Review'Essential for highlighting the current divisions within feminist political agendas, and for collective reflection on a profound, radical transformation of society... Necessary reading.' -- 'Axelle n Degrees219' 'Develops a critical perspective on feminism to reconsider the conditions of possibility and purpose... resituates feminism in a truly political, emancipatory and critical dimension' -- Jean-Philippe Cazier, 'Diacritik' 'A powerful work' -- 'Les Inrocks' 'Incisive... an invitation to reconnect with the utopian power of feminism' -- Aurelien Maignant, 'Fabula'Table of ContentsPreface to the English edition Introduction: Invisible, They 'Open the City' 1. Taking Sides: Decolonial Feminism 2. Evolution of a 'Civilising' Feminism in the 21st Century Notes

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Book SynopsisHow the CFA Franc enabled France to continue its colonies in AfricaTrade Review'For decades, the CFA Franc question has been, for the elite of Francophone Africa, more than a mere taboo subject, a sort of shameful wound. Tongues are starting to loosen, and this book comes at a perfect time' -- Boubacar Boris Diop, Senegalese novelist and essayist'A masterpiece that uncovers, in wonderful detail, the neo-colonial politics behind the CFA Franc. It makes a passionate, convincing case for dismantling the CFA Franc, and will become a classic study in how monetary relationships are intertwined with power and national interest' -- Professor Daniela Gabor, Professor of Economics and Macro-Finance, University of the West of England'An impressive read' -- Arndt Hopfmann, Senior Advisor on Economic and Trade Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation'This book makes the CFA Franc's role in the perpetuation of French neo-colonialism in Africa all too visible - thereby adding to the arsenal of knowledge for the decolonization of Africa and African development' -- Anthony Victor Obeng, author of 'Decolonizing Africa and African Development: The Twenty-First Century Pan Africanist Challenge' (Peter Lang AG, 2016)'A fascinating inquiry' -- Olivette Otele, historian, author of 'African Europeans: An Untold History' (Hurst, 2020)'A must read that engages the political economy of the post-colony by taking us back to where it all started: from De Gaulle's neo-colonial independence to Macron's fake colonial currency, showing that the transition is simply imperial domination par excellence' -- Ibrahim Abdullah, Professor of History at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone'Excellent ... it exposes the reality behind that 'invisible weapon' used by France to continue to influence the fate of its former colonies' -- Demba Moussa Dembele, economist and co-author of 'Ending Africa's Monetary Servitude: Who Profits from the CFA Franc?''An excellent book showing that a common currency area between an advanced and a backward region is a mechanism for perpetuating the latter's backwardness and making its products available cheap for the former. A must read for students of development' -- Prabhat Patnaik, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University'A brilliant book which will be a highly efficient weapon in the fight for the financial sovereignty of the African States and the complete abolition of the CFA' -- Jean Ziegler, Former Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris and former Vice-President of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council'A scathing critique of France's most powerful colonial tool in Africa, revealing a radical, yet practical alternative path for African economic and monetary sovereignty' -- Fadhel Kaboub, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity‘Addresses one factor most experts overlook … Pigeaud and Sylla make the case that preservation of the CFA has been an overlooked but crucial motivation for France’ -- ‘The New York Review of Books’‘A crystal-clear dissection of a purposefully opaque economic system … at once exposé, history, and economics explainer’ -- ‘Society and Space’‘An immensely important contribution’ -- ‘Brave New Europe’‘Demolishing the shallow rhetoric surrounding the CFA system, the authors are excellent guides to its political, diplomatic and technical history … offering a book that will be particularly of interest to economic historians, postcolonial theorists and political scientists’ -- ‘LSE Review of Books’Table of ContentsForeword by William F. Mitchell Map Introduction 1. A Currency at the Service of the ‘Colonial Pact’ 2. The CFA System 3. Resistance and Reprisal 4. France in Command 5. At the Service of the Françafrique 6. An Obstacle to Development 7. An Unsustainable Status Quo Epilogue Postface Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe follow-up to Peter Fryer's modern classic, Staying PowerTrade Review'Fantastic … the most important book on Black British history’ -- Akala, author of 'Natives' (Two Reads, 2018)'As this sequel to Staying Power demonstrates so succinctly, there is no separate entity called 'black history’, just versions and perspectives that have been air-brushed out of the official narrative. Britain's history is littered with gaping holes - hidden histories and her-stories that have yet to be told or unearthed. In drawing our attention to the experience of countless subjugated people who were deemed part of its sprawling empire, Peter Fryer has shown, once again, that he has earned his credentials' -- Stella Dadzie, co-author of 'The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain' (Virago, 1985), and winner of the the Martin Luther King Award for Literature'An inspiring account of brutal repression and resistance ... Fryer throws the darker side of the empire into graphic relief' -- New Statesman'An important contribution to the struggle against racism' -- Race & Class'A stimulating book which raises important and often uncomfortable questions' -- International AffairsTable of ContentsForeword by Stella Dadzie Preface Introduction Part I: How Britain Became ‘Great Britain’ 1. Britain and its Empire 2. The Triangular Trade 3. India Plunder De-industrialization 4. The Caribbean from 1834 The Abolition of Slavery Indentured Labour Apprenticeship Britain’s ‘Tropical Farms’ 5. Africa (Other Than Southern Africa) 6. Territories of White Settlement Tasmania Australia New Zealand Southern Africa Indentured Labour 7. Profits of Empire 8. How Black People were Ruled 9. The Empire and the British Working Class Part II: Racism 10. The Concept of ‘Race’ 11. Racism and Slavery 12. Racism and Empire 13. The Reproduction of Racism Historiography Children’s Books Part III: Resistance 14. The Struggle against Slavery 15. The Caribbean after Emancipation 16. India Conclusion Notes and References Suggestions for Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to the history and characteristics of settler colonialismTrade Review‘A brilliant introduction to settler colonialism … Offers a practical politics that seeks to link indigenous struggles to struggles against capitalism as a whole.’ -- ‘Red Pepper’Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Settling the World 2. Indigenous Dispossession, Indigenous Resistance 3. The Birth of Race 4. Settler Class Struggle 5. Indigenous Resistance in the Present Conclusion

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Book SynopsisInsiders and Outsiders celebrates the work of Alan Cairns, one of the most influential Canadian social scientists of the contemporary period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction / Gerald Kernerman and Philip ResnickPart 1: Methods and Approaches2 Alan Cairns: Public Intellectual / John Meisel3 The Political Scientist as Hedgefox: Key Themes in Cairns’ Approach to Institutions / Leslie A. PalPart 2: Citizen-Shaping InstitutionsThe Electoral System4 Early Warning, No Response: Alan Cairns and Electoral Reform / Roger Gibbins5 The Electoral System and the Party System Revisited / Richard JohnstonThe Institutions of Canadian Federalism6 The Legacy of the Privy Council in Canadian Federalism / Peter W. Hogg7 Unnatural Loyalties or Naïve Collaborationists? The Governments and Citizens of Canadian Federalism / Fred Cutler and Matthew Mendelsohn8 Institutions, Citizenship, and Federalism: Contrasting Models of Redistribution in the Twenty-First Century / Robert G. FinbowThe Charter of Rights and Freedoms9 Some Implications of the Embedded State in Canada / Barry Cooper10 Morton and Knopff’s The Charter Revolution and the Court Party: A Legal Critique / Robin Elliot11 The Politics of Honourable Constitutional Inclusion and the Citizens’ Constitution Theory / Matt James12 Charters and Constitution Making: Comparing the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights / John E. FossumPart 3: Citizenship, Diversity, and Unity Quebec and Canadian Unity13 The Anatomy of Cairns’ Constitutional Criticism: French Canadians, Quebec, and the Canadian Constitution / Ramsay Cook14 Alan C. Cairns on Canadians’ Right to Their Country / Stéphane Dion15 Plan C? Alan Cairns and English Canada Confront the Challenge of Quebec Sovereignty / Reg Whitaker16 Canada’s Mismatching Federations / Jean LaponceAboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Relations17 Belonging in the New World: Imperialism, Property, and Citizenship / Frances Abele18 Toward Conceptual Precision: Citizenship and Rightsm Talk for Aboriginal Canadians / Joyce A. Green19 Parallel or Embedded? Aboriginal Self-Government and the Changing Nature of Citizenship in Canada / Marc Hanvelt and Martin Papillon20 First Nations, Citizenship, and Democratic Reform / Kathy L. BrockDiversity and Unity21 Citizenship in a Multinational Democracy / Peter H. Russell22 Citizenship Complexities in Canada and Australia: A Challenge for the Hedgefox / Brian Galligan23 Of Cairns and Cages? Identity, Democracy, and Alan Cairns / Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Richard F. Devlin24 Multiculturalism, Gender, and Social Cohesion: Reflections on Intersectionality and Urban Citizenship in Canada / Caroline AndrewConclusion25 My Academic Career: The Pleasures and Risks of Introspection / Alan C. CairnsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis.Trade ReviewThe book is a welcome addition to the recent work of scholars such as Andrea Smith, Patrick Wolfe, Sherene Razack and Sunera Thobani, who have drawn fundamental connections between the structural elimination of Native peoples and the racialization of (and violence against) non-Native minority groups in settler colonial states. -- Bruno Cornellier, Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 13 No. 3, Winter 2012 *Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction1 Introduction / Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy WebberPart 2: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in the Canadian Political Space2 Canadian Sovereignty and Universal History / Michael Asch3 Historicizing Narratives of Arrival: The Other Indian Other / Audrey Macklin4 The Conceit of Sovereignty: Toward Post-Colonial Technique / Brenna Bhanda Part 3: Narratives and Narrative Form5 Show Me Yours / Richard Van Camp6 Horseflies, Haireaters, and Bulldogs: In Conversation with Richard Van Camp / Blanca Schorcht7 Counter-Narratives of Arrival and Return: Testing the Interstices of Resistance / Sneja Gunew8 Common Ground around the Tower of Babel / J. Edward ChamberlinPart 4: Contact and Its Narratives9 Juxtaposing Contact Stories in Canada / Anne Godlewska10 Native Women, the Body, Land, and Narratives of Contact and Arrival / Kim Anderson11 The Batman Legend: Remembering and Forgetting the History of Possession and Dispossession / Bain Attwood12 Layered Narratives in Site-Specific “Wild” Places / Jacinta RuruPart 5: Arrival and Its Narratives13 Narratives of Origins and the Emergence of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt14 “Robbed of a Different Life”: Alternative Histories, Interrupted Futures / Susan Bibler CoutinPart 6: Institutional Implications: How Would We Do Things Differently If We Took Narrative Seriously?15 Toward a Shared Narrative of Reconciliation: Developments in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law / S. Ronald Stevenson16 Hoquotist: Reorienting through Storied Practice / Johnny Mack17 Proof and Narrative: “Reproducing the Facts” in Refugee Claims / Donald GallowayPart 7: Theoretical Implications: Where Do We Go from Here?18 Differentiating Liberating Stories from Oppressive Narratives: Memory, Land, and Justice / Martha NandorfyContributors; Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWebs of Empire demonstrates Tony Ballantyne’s archival richness and mastery of his profession, provoking new interpretations of history and historians. This is compelling and essential reading. -- Lydia Wevers is a professor and director of the Stout Research Centre at the Victoria University of WellingtonTable of ContentsPreface: Connections, Comparisons and CommonalitiesNote on Language and UsageIntroduction: Relocating Colonial HistoriesReframing Colonialism1 Race and the Webs of EmpireConnections2 Writing Out Asia3 Teaching Maori About Asia4 India in New Zealand5 Te Anu's StoryEmpire6 Sealers, Whalers and the Entanglements of Empire7 Christianity, Colonialism and Cross-Cultural Communication8 War, Knowledge and the Crisis of EmpireWriting9 Archives, Empires and Histories of Colonialism10 Mr. Peal's Archive11 Paper, Pen and Print12 Writing and the Culture of ColonisationPlace13 Thinking Local14 On Place, Space and MobilityConclusion: Writing the Colonial PastEditorial NoteEndnotesIndex

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