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Book SynopsisLeuthen (1757) is one of the best-known battles of the Seven Years'' War, the most consequential conflict in continental Europe between the Thirty Years'' War and the wars of Revolutionary and then Napoleonic France. It was a victory against the odds, over a vastly superior Austrian enemy who held the initiative in the war. Leuthen confirmed the reputation of Frederick II (''the Great'') of Prussia as one of history''s greatest military commanders. His victory rested on superior drill and firepower, intelligent use of the terrain, and his perfecting of the ''oblique battle order''. But faulty intelligence and flawed decision-making on the Austrian side were no less important, as T.G. Otte shows in this reappraisal of events.Leuthen was of profound significance for the war and for the future course of European history. Frederick''s victory reversed the military dynamic of the current conflict. It kept Prussia in the war, preserved the existence of the Prussian state, and laid the foundations of its further rise with consequences beyond Frederick''s own times. It also ensured Britain''s final commitment to what was becoming a global conflict.The significance of Prussia''s victory extended beyond the military sphere. The ''Leuthen myth'', encapsulated in the evocative image of Frederick''s exhausted grenadiers intoning the church hymn ''Now thank ye all our Lord'', shaped political and historical disputes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. It also influenced the intellectual assumptions that underpinned Prusso-German war planning before the First World War. The ''Chorale of Leuthen'' provided the accompanying chords of German cultural developments up to the collapse of the Third Reich in the burning ruins of Berlin. But even to the present day its echo can still be heard. As with other great battles, Leuthen is constantly reassessed and rewritten as an element of national culture and identity.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Remapping Sovereignty places Indigenous anticolonial thought at the center of twentieth century global struggles over nation-state, political economy, and international order. Through a beautiful synthesis of political theory and history, Temin not only powerfully reconceives classic debates but he also demonstrates the essential conceptual importance of North American Indigenous arguments for making sense of the past and future of the decolonial project. The result is a truly innovative work of political reconstruction, with critical insights for both scholars and activists." -- Aziz Rana | author of "The Constitutional Bind""Temin aptly describes aspects of historical and contemporaneous social context associated with each theorist, including treaties; settler state citizenship; termination policy; the African American civil rights movement focused on individual integrationist inclusion in the settler state; the Canadian multicultural approach; capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy; “Third World” anticolonialism, decolonization, and socialism; and relations between radical Indigenous activists and established Indigenous nations." * Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Remapping Sovereignty Chapter One. Indigenous Self-Determination against Political Slavery: Zitkala-Ša and Vine Deloria Jr. on the Colonialism of US Sovereignty and Citizenship Chapter Two. The Struggle for Treaty: Ella Cara Deloria and Vine Deloria Jr. on Anticolonial Relations Chapter Three. “The Land Is Our Culture”: George Manuel on the Fourth World and the Politics of Resurgence Chapter Four. Indigenous Marxisms: Howard Adams and Lee Maracle on Colonial-Racial Capitalism Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOn 22 January 1879, British forces in Zululand suffered a shocking and unimaginable defeat at the hands of the Zulus resulting in over 1300 dead, including more than 800 regular British soldiers. But the Zulu victory came at a cost, and their losses were very heavy too. Yet, surprisingly, scattered in archives, museums, and private collections around the world, sits many first-hand accounts from those who were there. Inaccessible to most, these primary sources are vital to our understanding of the battle and how it unfolded, and they shed important light on the experiences of those who were there on that fateful day. British soldiers, those from the colonial forces, civilians, and those Zulu warriors who attacked the camp, all left detailed descriptions of the battle. By bringing these sources together, this book-the largest collection of primary accounts ever gathered on the battle - allows the reader to view all sources under one roof, providing a better understanding of the battle, how it played out, and what those involved witnessed on that monumental day in both British and Zulu history.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The Aftermath; 1 Official Correspondence; Part II: The Imperial Survivors; 1 Staff Officers; 2 Mounted Infantry, Other Ranks; 3 24th Regiment of Foot, Other Ranks; 4 N Battery, 5th Brigade Royal Artillery; 5 The Rocket Battery; 6 Civilian Contractors; Part III: The Volunteer Survivors; 1 Newcastle Mounted Rifles; 2 Buffalo Border Guard; 3 Natal Mounted Police; 4 Natal Carbineers; Part IV: The Natal Native Mounted Contingent Survivors; Part V: The Natal Native Contingent Survivors; 1 1st Regiment, Natal Native Contingent; Part VI: Zulu Accounts; Part VII: General/Miscellaneous/Unattributed; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world.'Astounding . . . history at its best' Yuval Harari'Utterly compelling' Financial Times'Superb' GuardianOn a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of a new nation: Indonesia.Four million civilians had died during the Japanese wartime occupation that ousted its Dutch colonial regime. Another 200,000 people would lose their lives in the astonishingly brutal conflict that ensued - as the Dutch used savage violence to reassert their control, and as Britain and America became embroiled in pacifying Indonesia's guerrilla war of resistance: the 'Revolusi'. It was not until December 1949 that the newly created United Nations finally brought the conflict an end - and with it, 350 years of colonial rule - setting a precedent that would reshape the world.Drawing on hundreds of interviews and eye-witness testimonies, David Van Reybrouck turns this vast and complex story into an utterly gripping narrative that is alive with human detail at every turn. A landmark publication, Revolusi shows Indonesia's struggle for independence to be one of the defining dramas of the twentieth century.'A magnificent fusion of oral history, sparkling analysis, and historical wisdom. Revolusi has it all: a masterpiece' SEBASTIAN MALLABY'One of the most unlikely and astonishing sagas ... a towering achievement' THOMAS MEANEY'A magisterial but gripping account of events of urgent importance to us now' JASON BURKE'At once vast and intimate, a history in colour' LAKSMI PAMUNTJAK'A masterly display of the historian’s craft' J M COETZEE'A wonderful and important book' PETER FRANKOPANTrade ReviewAn astounding feat of both research and storytelling. History at its best -- Yuval HarariA long overdue and utterly compelling narrative history of the birth of Indonesia . . . unfolds over a vast geopolitical canvas and yet never falters . . . It is as intricate as the waterways of the archipelago and yet it hums along, like a steamer on the Java Sea, propelled by the stories of its astonishing cast * Financial Times *A wonderful and important book. David Van Reybrouck has written an authoritative and powerful history of Indonesia that not only reframes the birth of a nation but helps challenge ideas about the end of the European Age of Empire -- Peter FrankopanA magnificent fusion of oral history, sparkling analysis, and historical wisdom. Revolusi has it all: a masterpiece -- Sebastian MallabyRelating the story of this place is . . . a mammoth task, requiring a monumental research effort. This is what the Belgian historian David Van Reybrouck has achieved in his superb history, Revolusi * Guardian *A rare blend of formal daring, intellectual resourcefulness and journalistic fluency, Revolusi briskly ushers Indonesia onto the centre stage of modern history. It reveals, too, decolonisation as the main event of the 20th century — what has shaped our present and will decisively define the future -- Pankaj MishraA comprehensive, authoritative, and highly readable history of Indonesia, with a focus on the crisis decade of the 1940s, from the Japanese invasion to liberation from Dutch rule in 1949. Seamlessly interwoven with hundreds upon hundreds of personal testimonies, Van Reybrouck’s narrative is a masterly display of the historian’s craft and a welcome corrective to the fiction that the Dutch in the East Indies were a benign force -- J M CoetzeeDavid Van Reybrouk's book on the Democratic Republic of Congo was an extraordinary tour de force, setting a new standard for accessible and intelligent historical writing about sub-saharan Africa. His new work, Revolusi, is as passionate, rigourous, perceptive, powerful and highly readable. Again, Van Reybrouk combines a historian's clear analytic eye with a journalist's joy at discovering and recounting the experiences of participants in great events. The Indonesian revolution, with all its complexity and horror and excitement and influence, comes alive over these 600 or so pages. This is a magisterial but gripping account of events of urgent importance to us now -- Jason BurkeReal history invariably resides in the memories of ‘ordinary people,’ people who fall through the cracks, who are excluded from the ‘panoptic’ view of history, or the history of the victors (History with a capital H). Among the book’s many gifts—the depth of its research, the breadth of its inquiries, the poetry of its prose—it is this that has affected me the most: the insistence and humility of finding and allowing these voices, these eyewitnesses to history, to come to the fore. With scientific meticulousness and a rare narrative brilliance, Revolusi gives us a history at once vast and intimate, a history in colour -- Laksmi PamuntjakHistory as it should be. Carried by a democracy of ordinary voices, meticulous research, an eye for decisive detail, vivid language and drama, Van Reybrouck forges a fantastic visionary compass to where history was heading at the time: the imagining of a new world order by people of colour -- Antjie KrogDavid Van Rebyrouck's Revolusi is a major account of one of the most unlikely and astonishing sagas of decolonization. A fully embodied chronicle that combines the skills of a journalist and a historian, the book is a towering achievement. It was the last chance to tell the story of the Indonesian revolution while some of its participants were still alive, and Van Reybrouck seized it -- Thomas Meaney

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Book SynopsisOur Colonial Inheritance explores the complex ways in which slavery and colonialism continue to shape the present, and examines the many entanglements of colonial knowledge systems and infrastructures with our everyday lives. This publication comes at a time when important conversations are happening about the role that the colonial past has played in shaping our society, and how we can engage with this past in the present. The use of the term "inheritance" in the title is a conscious choice, used to provoke what in our view is a different kind of relationship to the past. Throughout the publication, the authors interrogate what it means to inherit the (infra)structures of the colonial past, its categories, its relations and even its objects, and how we can deal with such bequests.

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Book SynopsisIreland was England''s oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Irelandin a time of Brexit, ''the culture wars'', and the campaigns around ''Black Lives Matter'' and ''Statues must fall''to better understand how it has formed the present, and how it might shape the future.Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history of the world for the last two millennia. It is nation states that are the blip on the historical horizon. Making Empire re-examines empire as processand Ireland''s role in itthrough the lens of early modernity. It covers the two hundred years, between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century, that equate roughly to the timespan of the First English Empire (c.1550-c.1770s).Ireland was England''s oldest colony. How then did the English empire actually function in early modern Ireland and how did this change over time? What did access to European empires mean for people living in Ireland? This book answers these questions by interrogating four interconnected themes. First, that Ireland formed an integral part of the English imperial system, Second, that the Irish operated as agents of empire(s). Third, Ireland served as laboratory in and for the English empire. Finally, it examines the impact that empire(s) had on people living in early modern Ireland. Even though the book''s focus will be on Ireland and the English empire, the Irish were trans-imperial and engaged with all of the early modern imperial powers. It is therefore critical, where possible and appropriate, to look to other European and global empires for meaningful comparisons and connections in this era of expansionism.What becomes clear is that colonisation was not a single occurrence but an iterative and durable process that impacted different parts of Ireland at different times and in different ways. That imperialism was about the exercise of power, violence, coercion and expropriation. Strategies about how best to turn conquest into profit, to mobilise and control Ireland''s natural resources, especially land and labour, varied but the reality of everyday life did not change and provoked a wide variety of responses ranging from acceptance and assimilation to resistance.This book, based on the 2021 James Ford Lectures, Oxford University, suggests that the moment has come revisit the history of empire, if only to better understand how it has formed the present, and how this might shape the future.Trade ReviewIn Making Empire, Jane Ohlmeyer assesses how imperial processes shaped developments in early-modern Ireland, and how Irish people-Catholic and Protestant-contributed to the formation of global empires. This lively, insightful and challenging narrative derives its authority from Ohlmeyer's archival research and her judicious appraisal of academic and literary productions. * Nicholas Canny, author of Imagining Ireland's Pasts (Oxford, 2021) and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850 (2011). *Jane Ohlmeyer has provided a masterful and sweeping overview of Ireland's role in the British empire. Displaying a huge breadth of original research, she offers a new story of early modern Ireland's contributions to the global world order, one that will shift our view of empire and help us understand how we live with its legacies today. * Sarah Covington, Professor of History at CUNY and author of The Devil from Over the Sea *A landmark new book ... Ohlmeyer is one of the most influential Irish historians of this century. * Chrisopher Kissane, Irish Times *Jane Ohlmeyer sheds fascinating light on Ireland's role in what became the British Empire. * Kim Bielenberg, Irish Independent *[Making Empire] is the fruit of a lifetime's reflection on Ireland's multiple histories and of Ohlmeyer's immersion in their burgeoning historiographies. The result is not just an exemplar of the now not so new British history: it is a model for deprovincializing any national history under the long shadow of empire ...This is a truly new British-and-Irish history. * David Armitage, Times Literary Supplement *Impressive ... an outstanding book on a complicated subject that confirms ... Ohlmeyer's reputation as Ireland's leading public intellectual. * Crawford Gribben, Wall Street Journal *Table of Contents1: Making History 2: Anglicisation 3: Assimilation 4: Agents of Empire 5: Laboratory 6: Empires in Ireland Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPlaced in the wider scope of post-war European decolonisation migrations, The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa looks at the Return of the Portuguese nationals living in the African colonies when they became independent. Using an interdisciplinary research agenda, the book presents a collection of research essays written by experts in the fields of anthropology, history, literature and the arts, that look at a wide range of memory narratives through which the Returnâas well as the experiences of war, violence, loss and traumaâhave been expressed, contested and internalised in the social realm. These narratives include testimonial accounts from the so-called retornados from Africa and their descendants, as well as works of fiction and public memoryânovels, television series, artworks, films or social mediaâthat have come to mediate the public understanding of this past. Through the dialogue between these different narrative modes, this book intendTable of ContentsIntroduction; The history and memory of the Portuguese Return from Africa - Elsa Peralta; PART I. NARRATIVES OF HISTORY AND MEMORY; Chapter 1 Traumatic loss, successful integration. The agitated and the soothing memory of the Return from Portugal’s African empire - Christoph Kalter; Chapter 2 The Jornal O Retornado’s readers and the construction of a narrative of the Return from Africa (1975-1976) - Morgane Delaunay; Chapter 3 Remembering the Return: Personal narratives of paradox and bewilderment - Elsa Peralta; Chapter 4 The retornados and their "roots" in Angola. A generational perspective on the colonial past and the postcolonial present - Irène Dos Santos; PART II. LITERATURE AND THE WORKINGS OF IMAGINATION; Chapter 5 Acoustic remains: Listening for colonialism and decolonisation in Isabela Figueiredo’s life-writing - Isabel A. Ferreira Gould; Chapter 6 The frizzy hair of the retornados: "Race" and gender in literature on mixed-race identities in Portugal -Doris Wieser; Chapter 7 The (des)retorno of (bi)nationals: real and imagined experiences - Carolina Peixoto; Chapter 8 Retornadiana: The writing of the retornados and the memorialisation of the Return in postcolonial Portugal - João Pedro George; PART III. MEDIA AND CULTURAL MEMORY; Chapter 9 Historical reflexivity and artistic reflexivity. The colonial society in the film Tabu and the naturalisation of the settlers’ gaze - Nuno Domingos; Chapter 10 Negotiating the end of the Portuguese empire: The retornados’ perspective in the TV series Depois do Adeus - Teresa Pinheiro; Chapter 11 As Time Goes By. Portuguese retornados and postcolonial melancholia - Marcos Cardão; Chapter 12 Connected colonial nostalgia: content and interactions of the Retornados e Refugiados de Angola Facebook group - Bruno Góis; PART IV. REWRITINGS AND ARTISTIC APPROPRIATIONS; Chapter 13 Some of the children of it all. Reflections on Children of the Return [ Filhos do Retorno] , a performance by Teatro do Vestido: constructions, representations, memories and postmemories - Joana Craveiro; Chapter 14 Rewriting recent Portuguese colonial history through postcolonial documentary theatre - André Amálio; Chapter 15 My own recollection of their lives: Visual narratives of an archival reappropriation - Céline Gaille; Chapter 16 The retornado as archive of the sensible in contemporary Portuguese artistic practices: between transmemories, nostalgias and possible futures - Maria-Benedita Basto

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Book SynopsisGayatri Chakravorty Spivak declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a new comparative literature, in which the discipline is reborn.Table of ContentsPreface to the Twentieth Anniversary EditionAcknowledgments1. Crossing Borders2. Collectivities3. PlanetarityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow can we explain Britain’s long rule in India beyond the clichés of ‘imperial’ versus ‘nationalist’ interpretations? In this new history, Roderick Matthews tells a more nuanced story of ‘oblige and rule’, the foundation of common purpose between colonisers and powerful Indians. Peace, Poverty and Betrayal argues that this was more a state of being than a system: British policy was never clear or consistent; the East India Company went from a manifestly incompetent ruler to, arguably, the world’s first liberal government; and among British and Indians alike there were both progressive and conservative attitudes to colonisation. Matthews skilfully illustrates that this very diversity and ambiguity of British–Indian relations also drove the social changes that led to the struggle for independence. Skewering the simplistic binaries that often dominate the debate, Peace, Poverty and Betrayal is a fresh and elegant history of British India.Trade Review‘Mr. Matthews’s discerning book isn’t a revisionist defense of the Raj. It is, instead, a warning against the glib postcolonial assumption “that because British rule is viewed as bad, therefore anything else would have been better.”' -- Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal‘This brave and intelligent book will satisfy neither empire loyalists nor today’s rabid nationalists, which is all the more reason to applaud its author and relish the clarity of his analysis.’ -- Literary Review'Matthews explores with great delicacy and intelligence… how Britain became itself, at home, more liberal and democratic, while, as an imperial power, becoming the opposite.’ -- The Catholic Herald‘Matthews demonstrates an encyclopaedic knowledge of British rule in India [and] frequently challenges conventional views of events and personalities who shaped British India.’ -- Asian Review of Books'A fresh perspective of the British era that rejects many existing biases. … Elegantly written, backed with sound historical research and convincing arguments, the book is a page-turner.' -- Financial Express'A radical re-appraisal of British rule in India that challenges current thinking on colonialism in the subcontinent. […] This is a thoughtful, thought-provoking book with enough to keep the reader travelling through four centuries of our former relationship with India.' -- Journal of Asian Affairs'Insightful and indeed revelatory… conceptual but also remarkably well-informed historically.' -- Marginal Revolution blog'A radical re-appraisal of British rule in India that challenges current thinking on colonialism in the subcontinent. The author, Roderick Matthews, with his own Indian connections, evaluates the East India Company and its successor, the British Raj, by examining how closely both were influenced by Parliament and contemporary opinion in England. From a liberal, Whiggish perspective which directed Company policy to the hierarchical Tory view that courted India's princes but ignored its peasants, Matthews is acute and perceptive. He argues that the Company acted as a buffer between India and Parliament and that far from being a successful commercial enterprise, it frequently had to be bailed out by the British government. He examines in detail the failure after the Uprising of 1858 to modernise India, to treat its citizens as adults, not children, that denied them the electoral reforms introduced in Britain. He describes the high imperialism of late 19th century Britain, seemingly baffled by 'India's exotic backwardness' and contrasts this with a deeper understanding of the country during the earlier years of British intervention. Betrayal came with the persistent lack of economic activity and a series of uninspired Viceroys. Growing demands for greater Indian representation in the governance of their own country temporarily halted during World War Two but resurfaced immediately afterwards and led to a hasty, botched, Independence that saw the great subcontinent divided for ever. An important book.' -- Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, author, inter alia, of The Last King In India: Wajid Ali Shah (Hurst, 2014)'Peace, Poverty and Betrayal succeeds in providing a wider understanding of Anglo-Indian history by illustrating the way in which divisions in Britain along party political lines shaped attitudes to the governance of India. Maintaining that a willing acceptance of the uncompromising and immutable nature of 'imperialism' in current historiography has tended to disguise the link between the frequent changes in fashion in British politics and the execution of colonial rule in India, Matthews skilfully weaves together the disparate strands of conservative and radical thought which influenced the most prominent British officials and statesmen on the Indian stage. Tackling the thorny issue of "divide and rule", the book argues that the British spent significantly more time uniting than dividing India and, taking advantage of the complex and highly flexible alliances which always existed between elite groups of British and Indians, cultivated loyalty where it could be found with the goal of avoiding rather than fostering civil tension and the subsequent threat to the stability of the Raj. Admittedly culpable in other areas, the British failed in Matthews' view by under-stimulating the Indian economy in which Indian interests were never properly represented and, by supporting the Indian conservative classes after 1857, betraying the hopes of those Indians who aspired to work in partnership with the British to build a modern India.' -- Dr Caroline Keen, author of, inter alia, Princely India and the British: Political Development and the Operation of Empire'One of the best things about this book is that it sidesteps the usual binaries and looks at British India as it actually was, as complex and confused as today's India, neither good nor bad but very, very messy. And, as usual, Matthews is a delight to read.' -- Pritish Nandy, former Rajha Sahba MP, poet, film-maker, journalist and former managing editor, Times of India, and editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India.'A fresh, engaging and challenging perspective on British rule in India, Roderick Mathew's lucidly written and well researched book will reset the debate on colonial rule and legacy in South Asia.' -- Dr Yaqoob Khan Bangash, Director, Centre for Governance and Policy, ITU Lahore, author of A Princely Affair: Accession and Integration of the Princely States of Pakistan; founder of ThinkFest Pakistan.

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Book SynopsisTHE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A gripping tale about the human need for freedom ... spellbinding' NPR 'Impressively detailed ... Kars provokes the reader into seeing the many sides involved in this bloody and desperate struggle with empathy and pity ... excellent' Paterson Joseph, actor and author of The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho 'A masterpiece ... a story for the ages' Elizabeth Fenn, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World In February 1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice - in present-day Guyana - launched a massive rebellion - and very nearly succeeded. For an entire year, they fought their enslavers, dreaming of establishing a free state, what would have been the first Black republic. Instead, they vanished from history. Blood on the River is the explosive story of this forgotten revolution, an event that almost changed the face of the Americas. Historian Marjoleine Kars draws on long-buried Dutch interrogation transcripts to reconstruct a rich day-by-day account of this extraordinary event, providing a rare look at the political vision of enslaved people at the dawn of the Age of Revolution. An astonishing original work of history, Blood on the River will change our understanding of revolutions, slavery and the story of freedom in the New World.Trade ReviewA riveting addition to the history of the search for freedom in the Americas * Kirkus Reviews *A richly detailed account of a gripping human story -- H.W. Brands * Washington Post *[An] epic history ... A sweeping, thoughtful narrative, joining a new wave of books that make visible previously dismissed Black voices -- Carolyn Kellogg * Los Angeles Times *A gripping tale about the human need for freedom ... The story of the Berbice Rebellion begs to be told, and Kars' telling is impressive -- Martha Anne Toll * NPR Books *A model for how academic history can reach a wide audience, a narrative-driven work which presents pioneering archival scholarship in which we can hear the voices of the enslaved protagonists ... Kars represents the complexities of the rebellion without romanticising it -- Bethan Fisk * History Today *Brilliant ... 900 testimonies give unparalleled access to the complex dynamics of resistance and the voices of the enslaved ... A tour de force -- Catherine Hall FBA FRHS, Emerita Professor of History at UCL and Chair of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British SlaveryAn impressively detailed account of one of the earliest resistance battles against the horrors of slavery. Kars provokes the reader into seeing the many sides involved in this bloody and desperate struggle with empathy and pity. There's a sense of the futility of the fight against the Dutch and European Empires, but somehow she manages to convey hope and a degree of heroism on the side of those fighting for their freedom ... excellent -- Paterson Joseph, actor and author of The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius SanchoA powerful book that will appeal to experts and - thanks to the lively and accessible writing style - the general public alike * Black Perspectives *This striking study unearths a meaningful chapter in the history of slavery * Publishers Weekly *Meticulously researched and careful to prioritize the perspectives of the marginalized, Blood on the River offers a fascinating glimpse of the complex history of slavery in the Americas * Booklist *A must-read for anyone interested in slave revolts and the history of Atlantic slavery * Library Journal *[A] masterpiece ... Marjoleine Kars has unearthed a little-known rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice and rendered its story with insight, empathy, and wisdom. You'll find no easy platitudes herein. Instead, you'll find human beings in full relief, acting with courage, kindness, calculation, and mendacity in their quest for self-determination. Blood on the River is a story for the ages -- Elizabeth Fenn, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan PeopleTakes readers on a moving journey deep into a colonial heart of darkness. Drawing on rich and challenging sources, Marjoleine Kars reveals enslaved people making a rebellion that lingers in memory and landscape -- Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Internal Enemy and William Cooper's TownThis is required reading for historians of the Black Atlantic world -- Jennifer Morgan, professor of history at New York University and author of Reckoning with SlaveryOne of the great slave revolts in modern history has at last found a gifted historian to tell its epic tale. Using a breathtaking archival discovery to make the Berbice rebels vivid flesh-and-blood actors, Marjoleine Kars deeply enriches the global scholarship on the history of slavery and resistance -- Marcus Rediker, author of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and FreedomVivid ... The aborted attempt at freedom she chronicles provides a harrowing counterpoint to the American and French revolutions that would soon follow -- Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the WorldMarjoleine Kars has brought from the archives the voices of the enslaved, both in hope and in defeat. A tale of importance for our time -- Natalie Zemon Davis, author of Trickster Travels and The Return of Martin Guerre

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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 SynopsisTrade Review"In his monumental Central Asia, Adeeb Khalid puts the region at the 'crossroads of history'. A laboratory of colonialism, revolution, nation building and telescoped social and cultural transformation, it has experienced 'every achievement of modernity and every one of its disasters'."---Daniel Beer, Times Literary Supplement"Khalid presents a masterful history of modern Central Asia which is at once scholarly, analytical and wonderfully accessible. . . .Adeeb Khalid deserves our gratitude for producing a path-breaking study of modern Central Asian history. One hopes it will pave the way for more."---Scott C. Levi, History Today ​​​​​​​"The book is successful in revealing the two centuries of political, social and cultural history of the peoples of Central Asia, and serves to further progress knowledge about this region."---Mirzokhid Askarov, Ethnic and Racial Studies"One of the newest and comprehensive studies on the region. It is a very broad and, at the same time, concise introduction to Central Asian history."---Marat Iliyasov, The Rest Journal"Formidably detailed, Central Asia is ideal for upper-level students wondering how a chronically misunderstood region has been shaped by broad currents and dominant powers of modern world history, in concert with local actors."---Andrew M. Wender, World History Connected

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“In all the annals of Spanish conquests in the Americas, there is no one to compare with Pedro de Alvarado. This brutal conquistador took a fleet, and many reluctant Guatemalan Mayas, to muscle in on Pizarro’s conquest of the Inca Empire. Defeated by forests, mountains, volcanic eruption, and adverse weather, Alvarado was bought off in a deal to rival one between modern Mafia families. George Lovell tells this lurid, little-known story with clarity and élan.” John Hemming, author of The Conquest of the Incas“As George Lovell vividly reveals, Alvarado’s ambitions were boundless, as was his willingness to make Indigenous peoples on two continents suffer for those ambitions. How to tell such a tale of tenacity and tragedy without surrendering to the temptation to turn it into a swashbuckling adventure? Lovell pulls it off by keeping a close and careful eye on his primary sources, skillfully teasing out a history that never glorifies yet remains utterly gripping.” Matthew Restall, author of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest and When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History“Drawing from Spanish chronicle sources, archival materials, and transcribed primary source collections, Lovell delivers a highly readable, biographically driven narrative of the little-known episode, and throughout he centers its lamentable consequences on thousands of people because of Alvarado’s rapaciousness.” Hispanic American Historical Review"Accompanied by a rich array of maps and photographs taken directly by the author in the main places of Alvarado's expedition, Lovell's accurate narrative is based on a large and solid bibliography that ranges between Anglophone and Ibero-American studies." Storicamente“The history of Pedro de Alvarado is highly illustrative of the intrigues that grew out of conquistadors’ ambitions but are rarely mentioned in the “official” history. W. George Lovell masterfully recreates an episode of the conquest that shows what occurred behind the scenes … .” The Americas

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the TSA/CUP Book Prize, Transatlantic Studies Association and Cambridge University Press""Shortlisted for the BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize, British International Studies Association""One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books""Largely forgotten today, however, is that era of history when there occurred not only a 'Great Rapprochement' between the two nations but also debates about the possibility of reuniting the 'Republic and the Empire' on the basis of a shared Anglo-Saxon racial destiny. . . . Duncan Bell’s remarkable book Dreamworlds of Race brings that history to light with both scholarly rigor and narrative flair."---Bassam Sidiki, Los Angeles Review of Books"In the United Kingdom and the United States in the late nineteenth century, a multitude of thinkers advanced new and often startling visions of the future of the global order. In this masterly book, Bell explores the ideas of some of the most intriguing figures of this era, illuminating their dreams of a world-dominating Anglo-American political community united by race and empire. This is intellectual history at its best."---G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs"Dreamworlds of Race is a powerful and profound statement that provides a definitive intellectual history of imperial era thought and deftly demonstrates its inseparability from liberalism and racial and cultural hierarchy. For students of history, politics, international relations, and even literature, its interdisciplinary appeal should make it essential reading. Ranging in widely in scope, and written with elegance and aplomb, the work is a distinguished and indispensable contribution to our understanding of how geo-political fear and ambition rested on highly racialized conceptions of nation and empire."---Robert Singh, Ethnic & Racial Studies"Dreamworlds of Race deserves to be read by a wide audience. It is an excellent work drawing together numerous strands of Anglo-American imaginations and revealing the tensions and hopes pinned on utopian racial thinking."---James Watts, Journal of Victorian Culture"A hugely impressive, and topic defining, achievement. . . . The larger portrait Bell paints is not only fascinating and important, it provides an illuminating context for Wells’s thought and art."---Adam Roberts, The Wellsian"An engaging read . . . . Bell is admirably well-read and manages to guide the reader through a myriad of different theories, thinkers and writings."---Christian K. Melby, Nations and Nationalism"Dreamworlds is a highly-topical window into these complex, often (self) contradictory visions of Anglo-America that build on race, power, and propaganda. . . . Bell’s opus is as much a necessary read for those seeking to better comprehend the world order reimaginings in the period . . . as British PM Boris Johnson’s contemporary ‘Global Britain’."---Stephanie Prévost, European Review of International Studies"It would be a fool’s errand to try to convey the book’s richness and detail.—Inder S. Marwah, Review of Politics"

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Book SynopsisNew oral histories from Black Namibian and Angolan troops who fought in apartheid South Africa's security forces reveal their involvement, and its impact on their lives, to be far more complicated than most historical scholarship has acknowledged.In anticolonial struggles across the African continent, tens of thousands of African soldiers served in the militaries of colonial and settler states. In southern Africa, they often made up the bulk of these militaries and, in some contexts, far outnumbered those who fought in the liberation movements' armed wings. Despite these soldiers'' significant impact on the region's military and political history, this dimension of southern Africa's anticolonial struggles has been almost entirely ignored in previous scholarship.Black troops from Namibia and Angola spearheaded apartheid South Africa's military intervention in their countries' respective anticolonial war and postindependence civil war. Drawing from oral 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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Book SynopsisTrade Review "Anticolonial Eruptions offers a critical repository of popular power—from the enslaved and the indentured to smugglers, organizers, workers, tricksters, anticolonials, and abolitionists—whose disruptive and eruptive actions shocked the white supremacist, colonial, slavocratic status quo and precipitated movements that reconfigured social relations." * NACLA Report on the Americas *Table of ContentsContents Overview Volcanoes 1. The Cunning of Decolonization 2. The Colonial Blindspot 3. The Second Sight of the Colonized 4. The Decolonial Ambush Moles Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBehold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care.The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, has remained much the same for over a century: a uniquely rarified public space of cool stone, providing an experience of leisure and education for the general public while carefully tending fragile artifacts from distant lands. As questions about representation and ethics have increasingly arisen, these institutions have proclaimed their interest in diversity and responsible conservation, asserting both their adaptability and their immovably essential role in a flourishing and culturally rich society.With Decolonize Museums, Shimrit Lee punctures this fantasy, tracing the essentially colonial origins of the concept of the museum. White Europeans’ atrocities were reimagined through narratives of benign curiosity and abundant respect for the occupied or annihilated culture, and these racist narratives, Lee argues, remain integral to the authority exercised by museums today. Citing pop culture references from Indiana Jones to Black Panther, and highlighting crucial activist campaigns and legal action to redress the harms perpetrated by museums and their proxies, Decolonize Museums argues that we must face a dismantling of these seemingly eternal edifices, and consider what, if anything, might take their place.Trade Review“Shimrit Lee’s provocative and lucid book is part-investigative report where the museum resembles a crime scene and part-polemic that grapples with what it would look like to upend the current ways in which museums are organized and function. Lee makes the convincing argument that museums must fall, and it is time we start taking this imperative seriously.” — Sean Jacobs, founder and editor of Africa Is a Country and author of Media in Postapartheid South Africa“This book takes us through, and far beyond, the museum as a contested space, raising urgent and complex questions about its future. Through her historically insightful and comprehensive take down, Shimrit Lee asks us to reconceptualize the museum in its entirety. She tears down the facade that museums were ever neutral, tracing their role in shaping, and perpetuating, structures of racial capitalism. Lee shows us that decolonizing museums revolves around creating an expansive sense of justice that moves us beyond its walls. Getting it right, she reminds us, means nothing less than liberation for us all.” — Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Assistant Professor of Black Diasporic Art at Princeton University and author of Black Bodies, White Gold "... in-depth research, which interrogates the foundations of museum and curatorial principles, makes Decolonize Museums an abundant read—it should be stocked in every museum gift shop worldwide." —Full-Stop

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Book SynopsisFamed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its early roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where development was encouraged and native governance flourished.Historian and university professor, Bruce Gilley, delves into the history of German colonialism from its earliest roots through the 20th century, demonstrating that contrary to modern presuppositions, it served as a global force for good—elevating the lives of its subjects and encouraging scientific development while allowing native cultures to flourish within its governance.Trade Review“A very well-written, thorough, and scholarly analysis of the facts of the German colonial record. This will come as a complete revelation to those of us who had assumed as a matter of course that German colonialism must have been brutal, authoritarian, and only interested in the exploitation of subject peoples. In fact, as this remarkable book documents in great detail, it was humane and enlightened, with the interests of the natives as its first priority, and distinguished in particular by the quality of its medical research and hospital care. The book also shines a brilliant light on the sheer mendacity of much of the anti-colonial movement so fashionable in the West, in which academia has played such a leading and shameful part.” — CHRISTOPHER ROBERT HALLPIKE, professor emeritus of anthropology at McMaster University, Ontario

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Book SynopsisAs racism persists across the world, we need to understand the role of education in sustaining white supremacyTrade Review'A defiant corrective to the attempts to deny the existence of systemic racism. Refusing the lure of easy 'solutions', this book argues that education has an ongoing responsibility to open up spaces for grappling with racial injustice and imagining futures freed from racial domination' -- Professor Paul Warmington, author of 'Black British Intellectuals and Education'‘A much-needed analysis of education for teachers, policy makers and activists interested in racial justice, serving as an important reminder that all schools within the colony operate on the sovereign land of Indigenous People. Readers are challenged to confront the colonial foundations of schooling’ -- Hayley McQuire, co-founder and CEO of National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition, Australia'Fresh and bold [...] Decisively structural in their analysis, resolutely critical in their orientation, and radical in their hopes, the authors stoke our anti-racist imagination about the possibilities of a world after whiteness' -- Zeus Leonardo, Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley and author of ‘Race, Whiteness and Education’'Theoretically astute, […] providing the reader with the coordinates to make sense of the ongoing creation of whiteness, its reactions to perceived threat, and how education is a crucial extension of the state in settler colonial structures. Through rich examples, we are offered both a comprehensive and accessible guide to confronting the desires of whiteness' -- Leigh Patel, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and author of 'No Study Without Struggle''Highly impressive. The question of how racism associated with white privilege is learned is of vital importance. This book provides an insightful analysis of this difficult question in ways that are not only theoretically astute and accessible but also pedagogically helpful' -- Fazal Rizvi, Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of 'Globalization and Education''Opens important and troubling questions. Highlighting Indigenous scholarship, the authors trace how the education systems created in settler-colonial history have actually sustained white privilege. To change this is no small task; it requires a deep re-thinking of institutions, ideas and practices' -- Raewyn Connell, Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney and author of 'Southern Theory''Provides rich conceptual resources for critically comprehending how education is shaped by colonizing societies, imagining an education that enables reparative rather than racially dominant futures' -- David Theo Goldberg, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine and author of 'The Racial State''While many works argue that whiteness is constructed, very few go into the actual process of construction. This book does, taking us to the educational construction site where the white mind-body assemblage is fashioned' -- Ghassan Hage, Professor at the The University of Melbourne and author of 'White Nation''A compelling, incisive and authoritative analysis, exposing the oppressive contours of whiteness which is all the more essential in an era marked by the heightened surveillance and attempted eradication of racial justice pedagogies' -- Nicola Rollock, Professor of Social Policy & Race at King's College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements PART I WHITENESS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURES 1. Educating the Settler Colony 2. Whiteness and the Pedagogies of the State PART II LEARNING WHITENESS 3. Materialities 4. Knowledges 5. Feelings PART III OPENINGS 6. Educational Reckonings Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading scholars to provide new perspectives on one of the most traumatic episodes in Taiwan’s modern history and its fraught legacies. Contributors from a variety of disciplines revisit the Musha Incident and its afterlife in history, literature, film, art, and popular culture.Trade ReviewThis compelling book provokes the reader to ponder the bloody violence committed in the name of the colonial state but also of the rebels. It bears witness to the difficulties encountered by survivors and later generations to tell and remember this important story. A must read. -- Klaus Mühlhahn, author of Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi JinpingThis collection brilliantly interweaves two layers of meaning of the Musha Incident for Taiwan society—a horrendous historical tragedy and a haunting collective trauma. The chapters take us on a tour with divergent tracks, frequently leading to fascinating landscapes of creative imagination. The fluid, open-ended history thus conjured up reveals how our senses of reality are shaped by evolving contemporary discourses. -- Yvonne Chang, author of Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from TaiwanThe Musha Incident is a pathbreaking study of the last major act of armed indigenous resistance to Japanese colonial rule. By marshalling the talents of experts in history, literature, film, and music, Michael Berry provides what will become a touchstone analysis of a tragedy that has long captured public imagination. -- Ashley Esarey, coauthor of My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to PowerOffering perspectives from indigenous, Han Chinese, Japanese, American, and European sources, The Musha Incident serves as a model for understanding the complexity of history and its representations. For the editor, it is not only a labor of love but also a demonstration of intellectual and moral commitment. -- Michelle Yeh, editor of Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems of Yang MuThe complexities, nuances, and shades of interpretation that the contributors reveal in their analyses demonstrate how egregious the Musha Incident’s previous dismissal or erasure in most general narratives of Taiwan and Japan has been. The book is bold in its innovative scope—truly interdisciplinary. -- Kirsten Ziomek * H-Asia *Table of ContentsA Note on RomanizationAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Approaching Musha, by Michael BerryPart I. Historical Memories of Musha1. The Discourse and Practice of Colonial “Suppression” in the Making of the Musha Rebellion and Its Aftermath, by Toulouse-Antonin Roy2. The Musha Incident and the History of Tgdaya-Japanese Relations, by Paul D. Barclay3. Relistening to Her and His Stories: On Approaching “The Musha Incident from an Indigenous Perspective,”by Kae KitamuraPart II. Literary Memories of Musha4. Bodies and Violence in the Musha Incident, by Robert Tierney5. Musha Incident, Incidentally: Tsushima Yūko’s Exceedingly Barbaric, by Leo Ching6. Satō Haruo on the Musha Incident, by Ping-hui Liao7. Untimely Meditations: The Contemporary, the Philosophy of Walking, and Related Ethical Matters in Remains of Life, by Chien-heng WuPart III. Visual and Digital Memories of Musha8. The Face of the Inbetweener: The Image of Indigenous History Researchers as Reflected in Seediq Bale, by Nakao Eki Pacidal9. Quest for Roots: Trauma and Heroism in Wu He’s Yusheng and Tang Shiang-Chu’s Yusheng: Seediq Bale, by Darryl Sterk10. Historical Representation in an Age of Wiki Writing and Digital Curation: The Musha Incident on Digital Platforms, by Kuei-fen ChiuPart IV. Musha in Cultural Dialogue11. Fiction and Fieldwork: In Conversation with Wu He on Remains of Life, by Michael Berry12. Heavy Metal Headhunt: An Interview with Chthonic’s Freddy Lim, by Michael Berry13. Televising the Musha Incident: Wan Jen on the Miniseries Dana Sakura, by Michael Berry14. No Good Guys or Bad Guys: An Interview with Wei Te-sheng, by Tony Rayns (translated by Christa Chen)ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, the far right has done everything in its power to accelerate the heating: an American president who believes it is a hoax has removed limits on fossil fuel production. The Brazilian president has opened the Amazon and watched it burn. In Europe, parties denying the crisis and insisting on maximum combustion have stormed into office, from Sweden to Spain. On the brink of breakdown, the forces most aggressively promoting business-as-usual have surged - always in defense of white privilege, against supposed threats from non-white others. Where have they come from? The first study of the far right in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, and reveals its deep historical roots. Fossil-fueled technologies were born steeped in racism. None loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. As such forces rise to the surface, some profess to have the solution - closing borders to save the climate. Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of political fronts that can only heat up.Trade ReviewPraise for Fossil Capital:"Malm forcefully unmasks the assumption that economic growth has inevitably brought us to the brink of a hothouse Earth. Rather, as he shows in a subtle and surprising reinterpretation of the Industrial Revolution, it has been the logic of capital (especially the need to valorize immense sunk investments in fossil fuels), not technology or even industrialism per se, that has driven global warming." -- Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and Ecology of FearPraise for Fossil Capital:"Fossil Capital is a theoretical masterpiece and a political-economic-ecological manifesto. It looks unblinkingly at the catastrophe that could await human society if we fail to act on the words System Change or Climate Change. It is a book that I will return to again and again-and take notes." -- John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon, author of Marx’s EcologyPraise for Fossil Capital:"The definitive deep history on how our economic system created the climate crisis. Superb, essential reading from one of the most original thinkers on the subject." -- Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock DoctrinePraise for Fossil Capital:A unique reconceptualization of the relationship between nature, capitalism, and Marxism. * Jacobin *Praise for Fossil Capital:The birth of the fossil economy, avers human ecologist Andreas Malm, arrived when steam eclipsed water power in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Around that, Malm builds a deep, insight-packed history of how society came to be in thrall to the twin engines of combustion and capital. -- Barbara Kiser * Nature *Praise for Fossil Capital:Remarkable book -- Benjamin Kunkel * London Review of Books *Praise for Fossil Capital:This is a denser, wonkier, and more historical survey of the long, ugly marriage between fossil fuels and capitalism - in fact, between fossil fuels and the entire history of economic growth. -- David Wallace-Wells * New York Magazine *Praise for Fossil Capital:The best book written about the origins of global warming ... Like Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything, Fossil Capital trenchantly demonstrated that capitalism and capitalists are responsible for climate change. -- Michael Robbins * Bookforum *White Skin, Black Fuels is a beautifully written, passionate, richly researched warning about fossil fascism - and its mutant offspring, ecofascism. With acute sensitivity, it traces the surprising connections between racist, nationalist ideology and climate denialism. And it persuasively explains why climate disaster only reinforces denialism on the Right. An essential insight into an emerging threat. * Richard Seymour *This bold and richly detailed study of far-Right approaches to climate change is a revelation. With well-grounded historical depth and challenging theoretical reach, it brings disparate contemporary developments onto a much-needed common canvas. Its admirably transnational reading of urgent political priorities could not be more timely -- Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, author of Nazism as FascismIn this highly engaging study, full of startling anecdotes and witty reflections, Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective take us on a whirlwind tour of ascendant far-right movements and their anti-climate politics in Europe, the US, and Brazil. White Skin, Black Fuel is analytically rich, getting to the heart of fascism's long-standing entanglement with white supremacy, fossil fuels, machinist fetishism, and capitalist cruelty. If you want to understand the political obstacles that will face climate action in the coming decades, this book is a must-read -- Cara Daggett, author of The Birth of Energy[Malm is] the hardest-working intellectual on the climate left. -- Wen Stephenson * The Nation *A firm foundation for antifascist understandings of fascism. If the name of the game is to know our enemy, this is a crucial first step. -- Alex King * Spectre *Compelling. -- Paul Mason * New Statesman *A critically needed analysis for movement thinkers and organisers seeking to understand the resurgence of fascism in the midst of climate breakdown. -- Basav Sen * Antipode *[White Skin, Black Fuel] shows how, in the political arena, arguments about economic rationality get woven together with hierarchical structures and the pursuit of domination, portending what it calls fossil fascism. -- Olufemi O. Taiwo * New Yorker *White Skin, Black Fuel charts many of the risks facing progressive politics in a post-carbon era, but it would be foolish to dismiss such a politics as utopian. It is on utopia that we now depend. -- James Butler * London Review of Books *A sustained challenge to [the] complacent historical framing of our present condition ... attempts to set out the ways in which gas-guzzling consumerism, fossil fuel addiction, settler colonialism and structures of racial power are historically entwined. -- Adam Tooze * London Review of Books *This rich study of the far right's role in the climate crisis presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. -- Adele Walton * gal–dem *Fascinating. -- Joseph Maggs * Race & Class *Malm and the Zetkin Collective lead us through the first systematic inquiry into the political ecology of the Far Right in the climate crisis, covering thirteen European countries along with the United States and Brazil. -- James Mumm * Social Policy magazine *

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Book SynopsisThe deadliest animal of all time meets the world''s most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural order, placing man, tiger and nature on a collision course.In Champawat, India, circa 1900, a Bengal tigress was wounded by a poacher in the forests of the Himalayan foothills. Unable to hunt her usual prey, the tiger began stalking and eating an easier food source: human beings. Between 1900 and 1907, the Champawat Man-Eater, as she became known, emerged as the most prolific serial killer of human beings the world has ever known, claiming an astonishing 436 lives.Desperate for help, authorities appealed to renowned local hunter Jim Corbett, an Indian-born Brit of Irish descent, who was intimately familiar with the Champawat forest. Corbett, who would later earn fame and devote the latter part of his life to saving the Bengal tiger and its habitat, Trade ReviewPraise for No Beast So Fierce ‘Gripping … From 1900 to 1907, a female Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) killed hundreds of villagers in northern India and Nepal. This compelling account hinges on that grisly story, but digs deep into causation’ Nature ‘Thrilling … Fascinating … Exciting’ Wall Street Journal ‘Fascinating … Multilayered … A superb work of natural history’ Booklist, starred review ‘Riveting … A haunting tale’ Scientific American ‘A vivid portrait. … No Beast So Fierce excels as an intelligent social history and a gripping tale of life and death in the Himalayan foothills’ Minneapolis Star Tribune ‘A gripping page-turner that also conveys broader lessons about humanity's relationship with nature.’ Publisher’s Weekly ‘Huckelbridge details the surprisingly methodical and incredibly blood[y] machinations of … perhaps the most murderous non-human animal in recorded history’ Popular Science ‘[A] terrifying story. … [A] harrowing tale. … Takes readers on a fascinating journey through the natural history of a tiger’ Science News ‘A great tale and study of man versus beast, or rather, beast versus man. The seminal battle between Jim Corbett and the Champawat Tiger stands as an epic encounter of the ages. Dane Huckelbridge’s No Beast So Fierce will make you rethink your position in God’s universe—and on the food chain.’ Jim Defelice, #1 bestselling co-author of American Sniper ‘I had a feeling this book would hook me from the get-go. I was right. Dane Huckelbridge’s remarkable narrative … reveals the circumstances that cause tigers to stalk human prey as well as Corbett’s transformation into a conservationist and ardent champion for protecting the animals he once hunted.’ Michael Wallis, author of The Best Land Under Heaven

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Book SynopsisEmpire, as Hardt and Negri demonstrate, is the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging structure is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, today’s Empire draws on the hybrid identities and expanding frontiers of U.S. constitutionalism.Trade ReviewMichael Hardt and Tony Negri have given us an original, suggestive and provocative assessment of the international economic and political moment we have entered. Abandoning many of the propositions of conventional Marxism such as imperialism, the centrality of the national contexts of social struggle and a cardboard notion of the working class, the authors nonetheless show the salience of the Marxist framework as a tool of explanation. This book is bound to stimulate a new debate about globalization and the possibilities for social transformation in the 21st century. -- Stanley Aronowitz, author of False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class ConsciousnessEmpire…is a bold move away from established doctrine. Hardt and Negri's insistence that there really is a new world is promulgated with energy and conviction. Especially striking is their renunciation of the tendency of many writers on globalization to focus exclusively on the top, leaving the impression that what happens down below, to ordinary people, follows automatically from what the great powers do. -- Stanley Aronowitz * The Nation *Empire is a stunningly original attempt to come to grips with the cultural, political, and economic transformations of the contemporary world. While refusing to ignore history, Hardt and Negri question the adequacy of existing theoretical categories, and offer new concepts for approaching the practices and regimes of power of the emergent world order. Whether one agrees with it or not, it is an all too rare effort to engage with the most basic and pressing questions facing political intellectuals today. -- Lawrence Grossberg, author of We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern CultureAn extraordinary book, with enormous intellectual depth and a keen sense of the history-making transformation that is beginning to take shape—a new system of rule Hardt and Negri name Empire imperialism. -- Saskia Sassen, author of Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of GlobalizationBy way of Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Marx, the Vietnam War, and even Bill Gates, Empire offers an irresistible, iconoclastic analysis of the 'globalized' world. Revolutionary, even visionary, Empire identifies the imminent new power of the multitude to free themselves from capitalist bondage. -- Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Almanac of the DeadAfter reading Empire, one cannot escape the impression that if this book were not written, it would have to be invented. What Hardt and Negri offer is nothing less than a rewriting of The Communist Manifesto for our time: Empire conclusively demonstrates how global capitalism generates antagonisms that will finally explode its form. This book rings the death-bell not only for the complacent liberal advocates of the 'end of history,' but also for pseudo-radical Cultural Studies which avoid the full confrontation with today's capitalism. -- Slavoj Žižek, author of The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Center of Political OntologyEmpire is one of the most brilliant, erudite, and yet incisively political interpretations available to date of the phenomenon called 'globalization.' Engaging critically with postcolonial and postmodern theories, and mindful throughout of the plural histories of modernity and capitalism, Hardt and Negri rework Marxism to develop a vision of politics that is both original and timely. This very impressive book will be debated and discussed for a long time. -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing EuropeThe new book by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Empire, is an amazing tour de force. Written with communicative enthusiasm, extensive historical knowledge, systematic organization, it basically combines a kojevian notion of global market as post-history (in this sense akin to Fukuyama's eschatology) with a foucauldian and deleuzian notion of bio-politics (in this sense crossing the road of a Sloterdijk who also poses the question of a coming techniques of the production of the human species). But it clearly outbids its rivals in philosophical skill. And, above all, it reverses their grim prospects of political stagnation or the return to zoology. By identifying the new advances of technology and the division of labor that underlies the globalization of the market and the corresponding de-centered structure of sovereignty with a deep structure of power located within the multitude's intellectual and affective corporeity, it seeks to identify the indestructible sources of resistance and constitution that frame our future. It claims to lay the foundations for a teleology of class struggles and militancy even more substantially 'communist' than the classical Marxist one. This will no doubt trigger a lasting and passionate discussion among philosophers, political scientists and socialists. Whatever their conclusions, the benefits will be enormous for intelligence. -- Etienne Balibar, author of Spinoza and PoliticsSo what does a disquisition on globalization have to offer scholars in crisis? First, there is the book's broad sweep and range of learning. Spanning nearly 500 pages of densely argued history, philosophy and political theory, it features sections on Imperial Rome, Haitian slave revolts, the American Constitution and the Persian Gulf War, and references to dozens of thinkers like Machiavelli, Spinoza, Hegel, Hobbes, Kant, Marx and Foucault. In short, the book has the formal trappings of a master theory in the old European tradition… [This] book is full of…bravura passages. Whether presenting new concepts—like Empire and multitude—or urging revolution, it brims with confidence in its ideas. Does it have the staying power and broad appeal necessary to become the next master theory? It is too soon to say. But for the moment, Empire is filling a void in the humanities. -- Emily Eakin * New York Times *One of the rare benefits to the credit [of the contemporary Empire] is to have undermined the ramparts of the nation, ethnicity, race, and peoples by multiplying the instances of contact and hybridization. Perhaps, at least this is the hope forwarded by these two Marx and Engels of the internet age, it has thus made possible the coming of new forms of transnational solidarity that will defeat Empire. -- Aude Lancelin * Le Nouvel Observateur *A sweeping neo-Marxist vision of the coming world order. The authors argue that globalization is not eroding sovereignty but transforming it into a system of diffuse national and supranational institutions—in other words, a new 'empire'…[that] encompasses all of modern life. * Foreign Affairs *Globalization's positive side is, intriguingly, a message of a hot new book. Since it was published last year, Empire…has been translated into four new languages, with six more on the way… It is selling briskly on Amazon.com and is impossible to find in Manhattan bookstores. For 413 pages of dense political philosophy—whose compass ranges from body piercing to Machiavelli—that's impressive. -- Michael Elliott * Time *How often can it happen that a book is swept off the shelves until you can't find a copy in New York for love nor money? …Empire is a sweeping history of humanist philosophy, Marxism and modernity that propels itself to a grand political conclusion: that we are a creative and enlightened species, and that our history is that of humanity's progress towards the seizure of power from those who exploit it. -- Ed Vulliamy * The Observer *Hardt is not just bent on saving the world. He has also been credited with dragging the humanities in American universities out of the doldrums… [Empire] presents a philosophical vision that some have greeted as the 'next big thing' in the field of the humanities, with its authors the natural successors of names such as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. * Sunday Times *Hailed as the new Communist Manifesto on its dust jacket, this hefty tome may be worthy of such distinction… Hardt and Negri analyze the multiple processes of globalization…and argue that the new sovereign, the new order of the globalized world, is a decentered and deterritorializing apparatus of rule… Though Empire ties together diverse strands of often opaque structuralist and poststructuralist theory…the writing is surprisingly clear, accessible, and engaging… Hardt and Negri write to communicate beyond the claustrophobic redoubts of the academy… In short, Empire is a comprehensive and exciting analysis of the now reified concept of globalization, offering a lucid understanding of the political–economic quagmire of our present and a glimpse into the possible worlds beyond it. -- Tom Roach * Cultural Critique *In their recent book Empire—a highly explosive analysis of globalisation—[the authors] take the effort to develop a full narrative of this new world order, of the global postmodern sovereignty and its counter-currents. It is therefore not so much a book on hybridity only, but rather an attempt to reformulate and redefine the political under conditions of globalisation. The result is a resolute tour de force delineating the genealogy of the postmodern regime as well as its consolidation as a new 'society of control' under conditions of world-wide 'real subsumption' which creates one smooth, global capitalist terrain. -- Dirk Wiemann * Journal for the Study of British Cultures *Stretching back nearly twenty years, Antonio Negri's work has been until recently one of the best-kept secrets of Marxist theory in the United States… [Empire] is the culmination of Negri's lifework and a major contribution to Marx's uncompleted work on capitalism's international phase. Beyond its inherent scholarly merit, however, Empire provides a critical tool for understanding what the events following September 11th mean as history and politics. -- Curtis White * Bookforum *Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire…owes its density not to affected language—indeed, its manifesto-like communicative urgency is one of its greatest strengths—but to the exhilarating novelty of what it has to say… This is as simple, as apparently innocent, and as radically counter-intuitive when thought to its limit as the Sartrean dictum that existence precedes essence must have been in its time. It's not that this relation had never been thought before; the connection between the demands of labor unions and the development of the automated factory is well-known. But in Hardt and Negri's hands this relation becomes a powerful new way to theorize globalization and the development of capital itself… Hardt and Negri perform the urgent task of reclaiming Utopia for the multitude. -- Nicholas Brown * Symploke *Hardt, an assistant professor of literature and a political scientist (and currently a prison inmate), has produced one of the most comprehensive theoretical efforts to understand globalization. * Choice *The appearance of Empire represents a spectacular break. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri defiantly overturn the verdict that the last two decades have been a time of punitive defeats for the Left… Hardt and Negri open their case by arguing that, although nation-state–based systems of power are rapidly unraveling in the force-fields of world capitalism, globalization cannot be understood as a simple process of deregulating markets. Far from withering away, regulations today proliferate and interlock to form an acephelous supranational order which the authors choose to call 'Empire' …Empire bravely upholds the possibility of a utopian manifesto for these times, in which the desire for another world buried or scattered in social experience could find an authentic language and point of concentration. -- Gopal Balakrishnan * New Left Review *This sprawling book is filled with original ideas and analyses, including some well-aimed critiques of postmodernism, dependency theory, world systems theory, anti-imperialism, and localism—and there is much more besides to stimulate the reader… This is an exciting and provocative book whose depth and richness can only be hinted at in so brief a review. -- Frank Ninkovich * Political Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Political Constitution of the Present 1.1 World Order 1.2 Biopolitical Production 1.3 Alternatives within Empire 2. Passages of Sovereignty 2.1 Two Europes, Two Modernities 2.2 Sovereignty of the Nation-State 2.3 The Dialectics of Colonial Sovereignty 2.4 Symptoms of Passage 2.5 Network Power: U.S. Sovereignty and the New Empire 2.6 Imperial Sovereignty Intermezzo: Counter-Empire 3. Passages of Production 3.1 The Limits of Imperialism 3.2 Disciplinary Governability 3.3 Resistance, Crisis, Transformation 3.4 Postmodernization, or The Informatization of Production 3.5 Mixed Constitution 3.6 Capitalist Sovereignty, or Administering the Global Society of Control 4. The Decline and Fall of Empire 4.1 Virtualities 4.2 Generation and Corruption 4.3 The Multitude against Empire Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIndia's caravan trade with central Asia was at the heart of the complex web of routes making up the Silk Roads. But what was the fate of these overland connections in the ages of sail and steam? Jagjeet Lally sets out to answer this question by bringing the world of caravan trade to life--a world of merchants, mercenaries, pastoralists and pilgrims, but also of kings, bureaucrats and their subjects in the countryside and towns. The livelihoods of these figures did not become obsolete with the advent of 'modern' technologies and the consequent emergence of new global networks. Terrestrial routes remained critically important, not only handling flows of goods and money, but also fostering networks of trade in credit, secret intelligence and fighting power. With the waning of the Mughal Empire during the eighteenth century, new Indian kingdoms and their rulers came to the fore, drawing their power and prosperity from resources brought by caravan trade. The encroachment of British and Russian imperialism into this commercial arena in the nineteenth century gave new significance to some people and flows, while steadily undermining others. India and the Silk Roads is a global history of a continental interior, the first to comprehensively examine the textual and material traces of caravan trade in the 'age of empires'. By showing how no single ruler could control the nebulous yet durable networks of this trading world, which had its own internal dynamics even as it evolved in step with global transformations, Lally forces us to rethink the history of globalisation and re-evaluate our fixation with empires and states as the building blocks of historical analysis. It is a narrative resonating with our own times, as China's Belt and Road Initiative brings terrestrial forms of connectivity back to the fore--transforming life across Eurasia once again.Trade Review'India and the Silk Roads takes the reader on a tour de force through a two-century history of trade, technology and geopolitics straddling India, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Important and outstanding--it will gain much attention and praise.' -- T.C.A. Raghavan, former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore, and author of 'The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan''India and the Silk Roads goes much beyond trade and looks at the geopolitical, economic and technological environment of the Silk Road. Careful and with a wealth of detail, it is a balance and corrective to existing literature on the silk route.' -- Benjamin D. Hopkins, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at the George Washington University, Washington DC, and author of 'The Making of Modern Afghanistan''India’s overland interactions with Afghanistan and Central Asia have largely been sidelined by recent decades of sea-facing scholarship. In this astute, holistic analysis, Lally makes a compelling case for the continued impact of the caravan trade on Indian economic and cultural life well into the twentieth century.' -- Nile Green, Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History, UCLA, and author of 'Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915''India and the Silk Roads is a scholarly exposition of the Trans-Eurasian caravan trade, providing a fresh look at India's historical overland trade routes to Afghanistan and Central Asia. Riveting and refreshing--a breath of fresh air amongst existing literature on the Silk Routes.' -- Nasir Raza Khan, Associate Professor, India Arab Cultural Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi

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Book SynopsisNow fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, and gives an overview of the cultural developments that have made Latin America a source of fascination for the world. 'A first-rate work of history ... His cool, scholarly gaze and synthesizing intelligence demystify a part of the world peculiarly prone to myth-making ... This book covers an enormous amount of ground, geographically and culturally' Tony Gould, Independent on SundayTable of ContentsThe Penguin History of Latin AmericaPrefacePart One: The Age of Empire1. Discovery and Conquest2. Indians and Iberians3. Spain in America4. The Spanish Indies5. Colonial BrazilPart Two: The Challenge of the Modern World6. Reform, Crisis and Independence7. The Quest for Order: Conservatives and Liberals in the Nineteenth Century8. 'Civilization and Barbarism': Literary and Cultural Developments IPart Three: The Twentieth Century9. Nationalism and Development: An Overview10. Mexico: Revolution and Stability11. Brazil: Order and Progress12. Cuba: Dependency, Nationalism and Revolution13. Argentina: The Long Decline14. Chile: Democracy, Revolution and Dictatorship15. Identity and Modernity: Literary and Cultural Developments IIPart Four: Towards a New Era16. Globalization and Reform: An OverviewStatistical AppendixFurther ReadingMapsGlossary of Key TermsIndex of SubjectsIndex of Names

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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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