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Book SynopsisFranks and Saracens is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake their terrible wars.Using original documents as well as secondary sources, Avner Falk demonstrates that the deepest and most powerful motives for the Crusades were not only religious or territorial â or the quest for lands, wealth, or titles â but also unconscious emotions and fantasies about one's country, one's religion, one's enemies, God and the Devil, Us and Them. The book demonstrates the collective inability to mourn large-group losses, and the collective needs of large groups such as nations and religions to develop a clear identity, to have boundaries, and to have enemies and allies. Falk investigates the unconscious dynamics of the Crusades, both on the individual and on the collective level, to understand why the Crusading fantasies persisted for nearly tw

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Book SynopsisFrom the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work' - Scotsman'Absolutely spectacular' - France Info19 October 1950. The war is not going to plan. In Paris, politicians gather to discuss what to do about Indochina. The conflict is unpopular back home in France: too expensive, and too far away for the public to care. Withdrawal is not an option – a global power cannot surrender to an army of peasants – but victory is impossible without more soldiers and more money. The soldiers can be sourced from the colonies, but the money is out of the question. A solution needs to be found.In this gripping and shocking novel, Éric Vuillard exposes the tangled web of politicians, Trade ReviewExcoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work . . . I cannot think of an Anglophone author who writes with such polemical, poetical indignation * Scotsman *Powerful . . . An entracingly nightmarish analysis of the First Indochina War -- Graham Robb * The Spectator *Clever and scathing * Le Temps *Vuillard writes into grey areas of history * New York Times *A work of ferocious reckoning . . . chilling . . . shine[s] a hard light on figures who might otherwise disappear into the jumbled backdrop of the past * Wall Street Journal *Absolutely spectacular * France Info *Pages clenched like fists ready to strike. It is the eternal war of the powerful against the weak that Vuillard stages in each of his books * L'Obs *Sparkling . . . By his pen, historical figures become beings of flesh and blood; we hear them breathe, we see them sweat * L'Histoire *The challenge for Vuillard is to tear the rancid nostalgia for 'the good old days' of the colonies, for the chic, elegant, confident and honourable colonial France, to pieces * La Croix *Brilliant . . . An Honourable Exit not only illuminates the machinations behind the Vietnam debacle for the French, but shows just how damaging an anachronistic hunger for domination can be. * Arts Fuse *

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Book Synopsis''The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind'' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar world. Even after the rush of French and British decolonisation in the 1960s, the strings of economic and military power too often remained in the hands of the former colonial powers. The more empire appears to have declined and fallen, the more a fantasy of empire has been conjured up as a model for projecting power onto the world stage and legitimised colonialist intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. This aggression, along with the imposition of colonial hierarchies in metropolitan society, has excluded, alienated and even radicalised immigrant populations. Meanwhile, nostalgia for empire has bedevilled relations with Europe and played a large part in explaining Brexit.Trade Review'Empires of the Mind is a uniquely valuable account of the fate of the French and British empires.' William Roger Louis, University of Texas'Accessibly written and genuinely comparative, Robert Gildea's new analysis of the lingering effects and bitter aftershocks of British and French colonialism is essential reading for anyone keen to understand where legacies of empire register in contemporary politics. A terrific read.' Martin Thomas, author of Fight or Flight: Britain, France and their Roads from Empire'Empires of the Mind is an exhilarating comparative survey of British and French self-regard from competitive collaboration in the hecatombs of slavery, through Suez in 1956, to responses to immigrants from ex-colonies, Islamic fundamentalism and Brexit. Among many startling quotes we read Nigel Farage claiming Brits are different from Europeans. Robert Gildea shows that we are too alike.' Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy'The past never remains in the past, Robert Gildea skilfully reminds us as he recounts the brutal histories of both British and French colonial and neo-colonial ventures. This is a book that insists on the connections between what happens/ed 'out there' and what happens/ed 'in here' and helps us to think through that complex and dangerous entanglement, which continues to inform our contemporary politics today.' Catherine Hall, author of Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830–1867'Gildea uses a comparative approach to examine the legacy of empire in France and Britain … both countries desperately hoped to preserve their empires, fiercely resisted decolonization, and frequently intervened to keep former colonies as dependencies. … In France, the long shadow of the Algerian conflict, racism, and an emphasis on secular republican values led to a reassertion of colonial rule in the banlieues. Despite Britain's avowed multiculturalism, its formerly colonized subjects faced segregation, exclusion, and violence at the hands of former colonizers. Alienated from both their adopted nation and their country of origin and enraged by the US's neo-imperialist 'war on terror', many in Europe's immigrant community embraced Islam. A radicalized minority turned to jihad and terrorist violence. … the dubious but apparently widespread belief that Brexit would enable Britain to restore its free-trade empire supports Gildea's thesis that the past remains disturbingly present. Highly recommended.' P. C. Kennedy, Choice'A valuable and shaming book.' Lucy Beckett, The Tablet'… [Empires of the Mind] can … be profitably read for its extensive comparative account of the British and French empires and their afterlives … highly accessible.' Richard Toye, Journal of British Studies'A grand narrative that tracks the resurgence of imperial and neo-colonial thinking since the end of the Cold War, which has provoked increased military interventions in the global South, the growing stigmatization of immigrant populations in the West, and the delusions of grandeur that have accompanied our own debates around Brexit.' Sudhir Hazareesingh, Times Literary Supplement'… a stimulating and inspiring read …' Patricia Lorcin, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Introduction; 1. Empires constructed and contested; 2. Empires in crisis: two world wars; 3. The imperialism of decolonisation; 4. Neo-colonialism, new global empire; 5. Colonising in reverse and colonialist backlash; 6. Europe: in or out?; 7. Islamism and the retreat to monocultural nationalism; 8. Hubris and nemesis: Iraq, the colonial fracture and global economic crisis; 9. The empire strikes back; 10. Fantasy, anguish and working through; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisGermany's short-lived colonial project had wide-reaching consequences for German politics and the nation as a whole. Sebastian Conrad draws on the wider history of European expansion and globalisation to shed new light on Germany's major role in the colonial world and the legacy of its involvement.Trade Review'In this brief but superb book, Conrad manages to couple acute analysis with all the essential information about Germany's colonial ventures in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. It is a model history, a tour de force.' Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota'Sebastian Conrad's German Colonialism is a smart, scintillating synthesis of a great deal of new scholarship; it places the German experience in a cultural and transnational frame, and shows why this episode was so important for German, European, and global history. By far the best brief treatment.' Helmut W. Smith, Vanderbilt University'Sebastian Conrad has proven to be a master in the art of condensed and efficient writing. He skilfully analyses most aspects of German colonial history and provides an impressive bibliography as well. The result is a brilliant mixture of wide ranging narrative account with cultural historical methods and a timely discussion of the social and economic effects of the European Powers' colonialist period.' Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, University of Oxford'With its many excellent illustrations and maps, its annotated critical bibliography and its acute awareness of historiographical trends, it is a model of its kind, providing an essential guide to the subject and intelligent pointers for further research.' London Review of Books'This is an excellent overview of German colonialism … It is the best survey of the subject in English to date, and will be welcomed by students and scholars alike. The breadth of the discussion marks this book out as a particularly valuable addition to the existing literature, and distinguishes it from other textbooks on the topic.' Reviews in History (history.ac.uk/reviews)'Sebastian Conrad's brief summary provides an excellent overview not only of the events and of the geographical and structural dimensions of Germany's colonial experience but also of its historiography.' Woodruff Smith, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Colonialism before the colonial empire; 3. Pressure groups, motivations, attitudes; 4. The German colonial empire; 5. The colonial state; 6. Economy and work; 7. Colonial society; 8. Knowledge and colonialism; 9. The colonial metropole; 10. Colonialism in Europe; 11. German colonialism and its global contexts; 12. Memory; 13. Selected readings.

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Book SynopsisHow did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today''s modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same ''define and conquer'' and ''define and rule'' strategies to carve out the West''s biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the ''rise of the West'', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.Trade Review'Andrew Phillips has done it again - this book will completely change how you think about empires, as well the competition between the East and the West.' Ayşe Zarakol, Reader in International Relations, University of Cambridge'How the East was Won brilliantly shows how peripheral groups overcame more powerful polities to create universal empires. Andrew Phillips demonstrates how these groups created such empires not by assimilating subject peoples but by a strategic process of cultural differentiation. They established diversity regimes that maintained the unique identity of the dominant elite, while simultaneously yoking culturally diverse indigenous elites to the conquest elite. In comparing the British Raj to Manchu and Mughal rule, he challenges the preconception that Western colonial empires differed fundamentally from the Asian empires. Instead of displacing indigenous practices, the British layered on to existing practices. Rather than see the current international order, as propelled by “the Rise of the West,” we might thus conclude that order has been infused with the hybridization of West and East from its infancy.' Hendrik Spruyt, Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations, Northwestern University, Illinois'A sweeping and beautifully-written explanation of how the Mughals, Manchus and British created vast and powerful empires and left lasting legacies for world order. This book is a definitive contribution to the creation of modernity and the study of global historical International relations.' Amitav Acharya, American University, Washington DC, and co-author (with Barry Buzan) of The Making of Global International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2019)'In this magnificent book Andrew Phillips takes us on a fascinating and deeply insightful journey beyond IR's Eurocentric frontier to challenge many of the continuing theoretical/conceptual assumptions of the discipline. He reveals the near-ubiquity of hierarchical Asian empires in the early modern period and how these shared many similarities in their origins and modalities of rule with the British empire as well as how international politics was forged through the interweaving of Western and Asian agency.' John M. Hobson,, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, UK'Phillips' masterful book on the Mughal Empire (c.1526-1858), the Qing Empire (c.1644-1912), and the British Raj (c.1765-1947) ambitiously challenges the received wisdom about early modern Asia. The author highlights that the West was initially backward so that Western colonialism could succeed only because it was built on Asian precedents of imperial emergence, expansion and consolidation. The winning formula was a 'define-and-conquer' and 'define-and-rule' strategy that curated identities to facilitate cultural appropriation and local collaboration. The resulting mega-states of 'India' and 'China' are modern inventions rather than the manifest destiny of supposedly unified and ancient civilizations. This book is a must read for students of international relations, comparative history, East Asia, India and China.' Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame'A provocative read … Highly recommended.' Q. E. Wang, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. From the rise of the west to how the east was won; 2. The Eurasian transformation; 3. The rise of Asia's terrestrial empires; 4. European infiltration and Asian consolidation in maritime Asia; 5. The great Asian divergence – Mughal decline and Manchu consolidation in the eighteenth century; 6. The East India Company and the rise of British India, 1740-1820; 7. Crises of empire and the reconstitution of international orders in south and East Asia, 1820-1880.

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Book SynopsisAfrica since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press'' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa''s position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked and interacted with each other. Covering the transformation of Africa from a continent marked by colonisation to one of independent states, Frederick Cooper follows the ''development question'' across time, seeing how first colonial regimes and then African elites sought to transform African society in their own ways. He shows how people in cities and villages tried to make their way in an unequal world, thrTrade Review'Cooper's new edition, with its profound and stimulating exploration of Africa's post-2000 spurts of growth, documents links to the preceding eras of post-colonial development and neoliberal disinvestment. He portrays African citizens, though enmeshed in a network of world affairs, as finding new ways to cope with the continent's possibilities and restraints.' Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh'Not once, but now twice, Cooper has performed that rare trick of producing a genuinely introductory text for the beginner that also excites seasoned scholars with its interpretive depth and flair. Not content with simply tacking on an 'update' chapter in this second edition, he has also refreshed 'old' chapters and their bibliographies. Maps, figures, and pictures are superb.' John Lonsdale, University of Cambridge'Cooper's survey is the most thorough, artful, and compelling text available on Africa's late-colonial and post-colonial history. Africa since 1940 combines a masterful historical narrative with an acute and insightful examination of the continent's troubled politics. This new and significantly updated edition is the place to start for any reader wishing to understand the dynamics of Africa's recent past.' David M. Anderson, University of Warwick'Frederick Cooper's brilliant Africa since 1940 was by far the most popular book in Cambridge's New Approaches to African History series. Now, he presents a revised, much expanded, and original second edition, which not only updates to the present the story he tells, but expands his analysis. This is once again the most perceptive critique of Africa's recent history.' Martin Klein, University of Toronto'When Africa since 1940 was first published, it was a major event: here was a comprehensive introduction to twentieth-century African history that actually proffered new and important arguments linking the colonial and independence eras. It is the only introductory text I've considered using. Thoroughly updated, including a survey of post-2000 developments - covering epoch-shaping events such as the 'Africa rising' narrative, militant Islam, democracy and reform in states like Ethiopia, and much more - Africa since 1940 remains an essential read for teachers, students, and anyone interested in Africa's past and present.' Daniel Magaziner, Yale University, Connecticut'Africa has often appeared as a monolithic entity, both in popular imaginations, and in academic and policy discourses - a place marked by a history of colonialism, poverty, and violence. In this measured and rigorously researched text on the continent's history from the 1940s to the present, Frederick Cooper argues powerfully against the tendency to read Africa reductively, thereby occluding a rich history of possibilities. All students of the continent - beginners and specialists alike - will profit immensely from this work.' Andreas Eckert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin'Once more, Frederick Cooper helps us rediscover how the urban and rural people of Africa struggled to understand and refashion their way to independence, in spite of tremendous difficulties. A clear and lucid book for all readers.' Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Université Paris Diderot'Since its publication in 2002, Africa since 1940 has been the most indispensable book in the field of African history. It is a useful textbook for students, and I've enjoyed teaching from it for years. But, more importantly, it set out a coherent, capacious analytic with which to see Africa's past. In this revised and updated edition, there are new themes - religion and gender, among others - that allow a more capacious view. There is an expanded and enriched geographic scope. And there is a whole new chapter about twenty-first-century Africa, allowing Cooper to describe the fate of the 'gatekeeper state' up to recent times. Now more than ever, Cooper's clear-headed, unromantic, synthetic, far-seeing book is essential. It furnishes all of us students of Africa's past with a shared vocabulary to think about history and the future.' Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan'Cooper has an extraordinary ability to synthesize the vast and discordant evidence of change in Africa since 1940. Since 1940, Africa has witnessed periods of enthusiastic expectations for development, and periods of wrenching disappointments. Since 1960, Africa's population has tripled, propelling youth into the forefront of change even as aging leaders refuse to yield power. Since the 1990s, parts of Africa have experienced high economic growth fueled by demand for raw materials. As Cooper notes, such growth may be part of long-established short-term spurts and does not necessarily translate as development. Cooper reminds us that there are many Africas and many trajectories of change. The new edition has been updated to reflect on these and other changes and it remains the standard for understanding modern African history.' Richard Roberts, Stanford University, California'This educational book, which discusses important concepts while presenting the major axes of the recent history of continent, is an excellent introduction to the history contemporary of Africa.' Claire NicolasTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Workers, peasants, and the challenge to colonial rule; 3. Citizenship, self-government, and development: the possibilities of the post-war moment; 4. Ending empire and imagining the future; Interlude: rhythms of change in the post-war world; 5. Development and disappointment: economic and social change in an unequal world, 1945–2018; 6. White rule, armed struggle, and beyond; 7. The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state; 8. Twenty-first century Africa; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range of finely-grained case studies to examine epidemic disease and its containment, chronic illness and mental breakdown and the health management of migrant populations in the modern world.Table of ContentsTables and Graphs Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World; Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland 1. Insanity and Immigration Restriction; Alison Bashford 2. Itineraries and Experiences of Insanity: Irish Migration and the Management of Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland and Sarah York 3. Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838-1900: The Cases of Trinidad and British Guiana; Letizia Gramaglia 4. The Colonial Travels and Travails of Smallpox Vaccine, c.1820-1840; Katherine Foxhall 5. Victim or Vector? Tubercular Irish Nurses in England 1930-1960; Anne MacLellan 6. Immigration, Ethnicity and 'Public' Health Policy in Postcolonial Britain; Robert Bivins 7. Immigration and Body Politic: Vaccination Policy and Practices during Mass Immigration to Israel (1948-1956); Nadav Davidovitch 8. From the Cycle of Deprivation to Troubled Families: Ethnicity and the Underclass Concept; John Welshman Index

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Book SynopsisUnder Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous national identity. This book examines novels and films of the period, showing that their attempts at stigmatization were self-undermining, forcing audiences to reassess their collective identity.Trade Review“This study contributes substantially to critical texts on Italian colonialism, Fascism, and postcolonial Italy, and to studies of racial identity in Italy by considering the role of hybrid individuals and the way in which they directly challenged … . The valuable, and timely, historical lesson contained in this book—particularly in light of the current migration crisis in the Mediterranean—is twofold: Italian national and racial identities are contested and fluid, and borders and boundaries are not fixed.” (Meriel Tulante, gender/sexuality/italy, gendersexualityitaly.com, Issue 05, 2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Meticci and Levantines in Literary and Cinematic Representations of Colonial Experience in Africa 1. Art of Darkness: The Aestheticization of Black People in Fascist Colonial Novels 2. The Dissident Literature of Enrico Pea and Fausta Cialente 3. Fade to White: Cinematic Representations of Italian Whiteness 4. Levantines and Biracial Offspring in Postwar Italy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which emotions were conceptualised and practised in Christian mission contexts from the 17th-20th centuries. The authors show how emotional practices such as prayer, tears, and Methodist 'shouting', and feelings such as pity, joy and frustration, shaped relationships between missionaries and prospective converts.Table of ContentsContents Faith through Feeling: An Introduction; Claire McLisky and Karen Vallgarda 1. 'What Do You Mean by Prayer?': Emotion and Devotion in Thomas Wilson's Essay Towards an Instruction of the Indians (1740); Laura M. Stevens 2. German 'Shouting Methodists': Religious Emotion as a Transatlantic Cultural Practice; Monique Scheer 3. Neuendettelsau Missionaries, Objectivity and the Ethno-musicological Study of Papuan Emotions; Daniel Midena 4. Errant Hearts: Missionary Melancholy and Consolation in the Spanish Philippines; Maria Cecilia Holt 5. A Complicated Pity: Emotion, Missions and the Conversion Narrative; Elizabeth Elbourne 6. Affective Circuits: Emotional transfer and Christian mission in Early Colonial Greenland and Australia; Claire McLisky 7. Converting Emotions: Domesticity and Self-Sacrifice in Female Missionary Writing; Angharad Eyre 8. The Evocation of Emotions in a Swedish Missionary Periodical; Hanna Acke 9. 'I feel that we belong to the one big family': Protestant Childhoods, Missions and Emotions in British World Settings, 1870s-1930s; Hugh Morrison Emotions, Missions and Colonial Histories: An Epilogue; Jacqueline Van Gent

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Book SynopsisPostcolonialism, Decoloniality and Development is a comprehensive revision of Postcolonialism and Development (2009) that explains, reviews and critically evaluates recent debates about postcolonial and decolonial approaches and their implications for development studies. By outlining contemporary theoretical debates and examining their implications for how the developing world is thought about, written about and engaged with in policy terms, this book unpacks the difficult, complex and important aspects of the relationships between postcolonial theory, decoloniality and development studies.The book focuses on the importance of development discourses, the relationship between development knowledge and power, and agency within development. It includes significant new material exploring the significance of postcolonial approaches to understanding development in the context of rapid global change and the dissonances and interconnections between postcolonial theory Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Histories and geographies of postcolonialism 3 A postcolonial history development 4 Discourses of development and the power of representation 5 Critiquing development knowledge and power 6 Agency in development 7 Towards a postcolonial development agenda 8 Beyond Development and decolonizing life in the ‘Anthropocene’? 9 Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe memsahibs' of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also visited and resided in India in this earlier period, witnessing first-hand the tumultuous, expansionist decades in which the East India Company established British control over the subcontinent. Some of these travellers produced highly regarded accounts of their experiences, thereby inaugurating a rich tradition of women's travel writing about India. In the process, they not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent, they also contributed to them, helping to shape opinion and policy on issues such as colonial rule, religion, and social reform.This new set in the Chawton HouTable of ContentsIntroductionAnn Deane, A Tour Through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan (1823)Julia Maitland, Letters from Madras (1846)Editorial Notes

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Book SynopsisIn this new edition of The Global Seven Years War, Daniel Baugh emphasizes the ways that sea power hindered French military preparations while also furnishing strategic opportunities. Special attention is paid to undertakings always French that failed to receive needed financial support.From analysis of original sources, the volume provides stronger evidence for the role and wishes of Louis XV in determining the main outline of strategy. By 1758, the French government experienced significant money shortage, and emphasis has been placed on the most important consequences: how this impacted war-making and why it was so worrying, debilitating and difficult to solve. This edition explains why the Battle of Rossbach in 1757 was a turning point in the Anglo-French War, suggesting that Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick's winter campaign revitalized the British war effort which was, before that time, a record of failures. With comprehensive discussion of events outside ofTrade Review‘Daniel Baugh’s book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the global dimensions of this pivotal conflict between Britain and France. Meticulously researched and based on an impressively wide range of evidence, Baugh’s engaging and accessible account charts the war across continents and oceans, offering penetrating insight and acute analysis of this global contest and its long-lasting ramifications.’ John Mcaleer, University of Southampton, UK‘Especially strong on the global dimensions of the conflict, with in-depth attention to North America, the Caribbean, the high seas, and India, Baugh narrates the campaigns lucidly and examines the strategic, diplomatic, logistical, and financial contexts that shaped the war’s course. An accessible and lively introduction to the Seven Years’ War for students, the book engages experts with arguments on key points of interpretation. This new edition provides fuller attention to the role of Louis XV and to the crucial financial dimensions of the war. The best, one-volume account of the Seven Years’ War available today.’ John Shovlin, New York University, USATable of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Statesmen and regimes 3. Origins: the contested regions, 1748-54 4. Risking war, 1754–55 5. War without declaration: North America, 1755 6. Indecision in Europe: May to December 1755 7. French triumphs, British blunders, 1756 8. France’s European war plan, 1756–57 9. The tide turns, 1758 10. The Atlantic and North America, 1758 11. The West Indies and North America, 1759 12. The British victory at sea, 1759 13. Britain conquers afar, disunity looms at home 14. The chance of peace, 1761 15. Peacemaking 1762: concessions before conquests 16. Conclusion and aftermath

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Book SynopsisPostcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to films of that period. Towards the century's end and at the dawn of the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges from and reflects that nation's unique postcolonial situation. This analysis of one nation's struggle with its coloniality allows each essay tTrade Review"This volume of essays brilliantly creates the groundwork for a truly international discussion. Film and its centrality to the ongoing colonial and postcolonial debates in and between countries across the globe is its focus. The many scholarly and accessible essays here will open readers’ eyes to the truly global reach of film, and to the urgency of creating equitable postcolonial cultures." – Lyn McCredden, Deakin University, Australia"This collection of essays engages with traditional discourses in postcolonial studies in the light of recent developments pertaining to globalization, a post-9/11 security planet, Islamic terrorism, infra-nationalisms, and intense nomadism of populations. It is long awaited." – Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: New Perspectives on Postcolonial Film Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Part I: New Readings of Twentieth Century Anti-Colonial Resistance Narratives 1. Yesterday’s Mujahiddin: Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966) Nicholas Harrison 2. The Sound of Broken Memory: Assia Djebar’s The Nuba of the Women of Mount Chenoua (1977) Sarah E. Mosher 3. Approximate Others: Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (1977) Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield 4. Life as an Ocean: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Puppetmaster (1993) Stephen Spence Part II: Millennial Tropes of NeoEmpire 5. Shifting Sands, Imaginary Space, and National Identity: Cédric Klapisch’s Peut-être (1999) Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 6. No Chains on Feet or Mind: Jean-Claude Flamand Barny’s Nèg Maron (2005) Meredith Robinson 7. A Cinema of Conviviality: Ray Lawrence’s Jindabyne (2006) Corinn Columpar 8. Déjà vu All Over Again: Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007) Cynthia Sugars Part III: New Imaginations of Neo-Postcolonialism 9. Identity and The Politics of Space: Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven (2007) Vuslat Demirkoparan 10. Space and Cultural Memory: Te-Shen Wei’s Cape No.7 (2008) Yu-wen Fu 11. The Postcolonial Hybrid: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 (2009) Rebecca Weaver-Hightower 12. The Marginal Interventionist Cinema of Budhan Theatre: Dakxin Bajrange Chhara’s The Lost Water (2008/2010) Henry Schwarz 13. Afterword: History, Empire, Resistance Ella Shohat and Robert Stam

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Book SynopsisA major historical study of the global arms trade, revolving around the transfer of small arms from metropolitan Europe to the turbulent frontiers of Indian Ocean societies during the ''long'' nineteenth century (c.1780-1914).Trade Review'It is difficult to imagine a historical subject with a deeper resonance for our present age than the development of the global arms trade. In this book, Emrys Chew presents an essential and deeply researched analysis of the arms industry and the arms trade in Europe and Asia during the nineteenth century.' - C.A. Bayly, University of Cambridge, UK 'Arming the Periphery brilliantly reveals that the trade in small arms and the arms transfer system it engendered between Europe and the Indian Ocean region were fundamental to the development both of empire and, paradoxically, of state formation in the region. To help us fully understand the likely impact of the international small arms trade of the present and future, we need to understand its past patterns and structure. This book provides a uniquely valuable guide to the past, and by extension, to the future too.' - Geoffrey Till, King's College London, UK 'As the Indian Ocean returns to the centre-stage of world politics, Arming the Periphery offers a deep insight into the historic evolution of the region's security order. Emrys Chew's fascinating story on the arms trade between the European centre and the Asian periphery in the long nineteenth century will uniquely enrich the twenty-first century debates on the Indian Ocean amidst the unfolding redistribution of power in the littoral.' - C. Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and Foreign Affairs Columnist for The Indian Express '...well-researched, wide-ranging study...' - Highly recommended by ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Maps Preface Introduction The Arms Trade and Global Empire in the Indian Ocean The Arms Trade in the Metropolis The Arms Trade in the Western Indian Ocean The Arms Trade in the Eastern Indian Ocean The Arms Trade and War in the Indian Ocean Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in the study of European empires and provides new perspectives on European colonialism and the challenges to it. With a post-1800 focus and extensive background coverage tracing the subject to the early 1700s, the book charts the rise and eclipse of European empires. Robert Aldrich and Andreas Stucki integrate innovative approaches and findings from the ''new imperial history'' and look at both the colonial era and the legacies it left behind for countries around the world after they gained independence. Dividing the text into three complementary sections, Aldrich and Stucki offer an original approach to the subject that allows you to explore: - Different eras of colonisation and decolonisation from early modern European colonialism to the present day - Overarching themes in colonial histoTrade ReviewA valuable book, one worthy of a place on the shelves of libraries in secondary schools and tertiary education colleges and universities. It is a book that knocks on doors and demands we open them. * ColdType *A masterly account full of fresh insights and engaging arguments. Their innovative structure enables Aldrich and Stucki to wield the historical lens with enviable flair. The vast topic of European empire is telescoped into comprehensible trends and themes, while still allowing for the precise focus on distinct times and places that brings the past alive. This is a history of the colonial world for the here and now. * Kirsten McKenzie, Professor of History, University of Sydney, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Writing (and Reading) of Colonial History Part I. Chronologies 2. Early Modern European Colonialism, 1490s-1815 3. The Making of Overseas Empires in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914 4. Colonial Rule and Misrule, 1914-1940 5. The Unmaking of Overseas Empires, 1940-1975 Part II. Themes 6. Land and Sea: Colonialism and the Environment 7. Crossed Destinies: The People of Empire 8. Slavery, Indentured Migration and Empire 9. Settler Colonialism: The British Dominions 10. Colonialism and the Body 11. Colonialism and the Mind 12. Colonialism and the Soul 13. Representations of Colonialism Part III. Cases 14. The Spanish Andes, 1780 15. Mauritius, 1810 16. Cuba, 1812 17. India, 1876 18. Burma and Vietnam, 1883-1885 19. Global Conflict, 1900 20. The South Pacific, 1903 21. Ceylon, 1907 22. German Southwest Africa, 1908 23. Ethiopia, 1936 24. The Dutch East Indies, 1938 25. Palestine and the Middle East, 1946 26. Algeria, 1962 27. The Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1971 28. Western Sahara, 1975 29. Belgium and the Congo, 1897 and 2018 30. Epilogue: The Legacies of Empires Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the British Empire's most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand as its British Resident from 1833 to 1840.Officially the man on the ground for the British government in the volatile society of New Zealand in the 1830s, Busby endeavoured to create his own parliament and act independently of his superiors in London. This put him on a collision course with the British Government, and ultimately destroyed his career. With a reputation as an inept, conceited and increasingly embittered person, this caricature of Busby's character has slipped into the historical bloodstream where it remains to the present day. This book draws on an extensive range of previously-unused archival records to reconstruct Busby's life in much more intimate form, and exposes the back-room pTrade ReviewPaul Moon’s biography succeeds in rescuing James Busby from the condescension of posterity. It does so by situating Busby in the larger contexts—Scottish Enlightenment, religious, British imperial, Maori, settler colonial—necessary to understand his controversial career. * John Stenhouse, Associate Professor of History, University of Otago, New Zealand *In The Rise and Fall of James Busby, we encounter the British Resident who for seven years maintained relationships between the chaotic Colonial Office, the mercurial New South Wales government, a lawless pre-treaty New Zealand and the nascent state which emerged after Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Through Paul Moon’s incisive research we meet the obsessive, prickly, land-hungry Busby of historic renown, but we also encounter the lesser-known stories of the friend to Hone Heke, the administrator who could be generous, thorough and principled, and the loyal husband and father. Busby’s central place in the early colonial history of Aotearoa New Zealand is at last detailed in these pages. * Lloyd Carpenter, Senior Lecturer in Maori Studies, Lincoln University, New Zealand *[Paul Moon] has done both Busby and us a service by rescuing him from historical marginalisation and providing a fuller portrait of the man whose efforts laid the groundwork for the Treaty. * Australian Historical Studies *Table of ContentsForeword 1. The Ambitions of the Father 2. The Tenacity of the Son 3. ‘I Am To Take Charge’ 4. Destitute in London 5. Convergence 6. Landed 7. Trouble at Home 8. Independence 9. ‘Destroy Busby at All Costs’ 10. A Career and Life in Tatters 11. Enemies with Everyone 12. An Embittered End Epilogue

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Book SynopsisColonialism and the Jews in German History brings together new and path-breaking studies on the historical relationship between colonialism and the Jews in Germany. The book considers the mutual influences on the situation of the Jews in Germany, including attitudes towards Jews and anti-Semitism but also Jewish self-conceptions, and the ideology and politics of German colonialism. The contributors discuss the ways in which colonial ideology and practice have affected the position of the Jews in Germany, and the relationship between anti-Semitism and colonial racism. In doing so, the volume introduces German colonialism as a relevant context for German-Jewish history, and it expands the perspective on German colonial history significantly by considering Jews both as distinct objects and also as agents within the field of German colonialism. The volume includes studies on the pre-colonial era, the phase of active German colonialism since the 1880s, and the time after Germany lostTrade ReviewIf there was a prize for the most outstanding anthology in Jewish Studies, German Studies, and history that outpaces all the earlier scholarship, Colonialism and the Jews in German History: From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century, edited by Stefan Vogt, would surely contend for top honours. This is a highly significant and unusually timely body of work. It is presented in a sophisticated yet accessible way. Vogt’s superb introduction, filled with deep insight, good sense, and informed by an unusual breadth and depth of scholarship, is followed by a series of masterful essays. A potential political minefield that is simply ignored by many, or dismissed in stark terms, has been treated with painstaking research and thoughtfulness. * Michael Berkowitz, Professor of modern Jewish history, University College London, UK *Antisemitism, colonialism, race -- over many decades now those causal intimacies have been either postulated or presupposed. Now, for the first time, we have an ambitiously organized anthology of boldly conceived, impressively grounded, and strikingly original contributions that pin those interrelations down -- discursively, concretely, and entirely persuasively. * Geoff Elley, Professor of History and German Studies, University of Michigan, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction (Stefan Vogt, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Part I - The Pre-Colonial Era 2. Antisemitism and Colonial Racism: Genealogical Perspectives (Claudia Bruns, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) 3. Sugar Island Jews? Jewish Colonialism and the Rhetoric of ‘Civic Improvement’ in 18th-Century Germany (Jonathan Hess, University of North Carolina, USA) 4. Racism, Antisemitism and Acheivement: Christoph Meiners and his Theory of the Nonequivalence of Human Beings (Felix Axster, Center for Antisemitism Research, Germany) 5. Boundary as Barrier, Boundary as Bridge: Colonialism and the Scholarly Quest for Boundaries (Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College, USA) Part II - The Colonial Era 6. The Role of Anti-Semitism for Colonial Racism (Ulrike Hamann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) 7. From Colonialism to Antisemitism and Back: Ideological Developments in the Alldeutsche Verband during the Kaiserreich (Stefan Vogt, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 8. 'Our Dernburg' - 'The New Moses': The German Empire’s Jewish Colonial Director (1906–1910): ‘Our Dernburg’ – ‘The New Moses’ (Axel Stähler, University of Kent, UK) 10. A Paradigm for Repatriation Projects: The African-American and the Zionest examples and the interrelationship (Mark Gelber, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Part III - The Post-Colonial Era 10. The Predicaments of Non-Nationalist Nationalism: Hans Kohn’s and Hannah Arendt's Anti-Colonial Thinking during and after World War II (Christian Wiese, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 11. Colonial Revisionism and the Emin Pasha Myth in Weimar and Nazi Germany (Christian S. Davis, James Madison University, USA) 12. Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure in the "Orient": German Jewish Refugees in Iran and India (Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union, USA) Bibliography Index of names

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Book SynopsisIn a new historical interpretation of the relationship between Australia and East Timor, Susan Connelly draws on the mimetic theory of René Girard to show how the East Timorese people were scapegoated by Australian foreign policy during the 20th century. Charting key developments in East Timor's history and applying three aspects of Girard's framework the scapegoat, texts of persecution and conversion Connelly reveals Australia's mimetic dependence on Indonesia and other nations for security. She argues that Australia's complicity in the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor perpetuated the sacrifice of the Timorese people as victims, thus calling into question the traditional Australian values of egalitarianism and fairness. Connelly also examines the embryonic conversion process apparent in levels of recognition of the innocent victim and of the Australian role in East Timor's suffering, as well as the consequent effects on Australian self-perception. Emphasising GirTrade ReviewConnelly cuts through the modes of avoidance that shield us from seeing what we do not want to see – that East Timor’s crime was its very existence. Her discussion of scapegoating and its associated ancient and modern myths is an unsettling but valuable experience. * Clinton Fernandes, Professor of International and Political Studies, University of New South Wales, Australia *Susan Connelly is the gentle but relentless Australian advocate for the Timorese quest for justice. She travelled to Timor for many years and worked in the Mary MacKillop Institute of East Timorese Studies. She continues to campaign for truth, transparency and fairness for a small neighbouring nation whom successive Australian governments, she attests, have not treated as an equal partner. In this book, Susan Connelly draws on the mimetic theory of René Girard to show how the East Timorese people were scapegoated by Australian foreign policy. Her unique on-the-ground experience, knowledge and involvement combined with her scholarly research make this an compelling read. * Vincent Long OFMConv, Bishop of Parramatta, Australia *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A New Way of Seeing: Mimetic Theory 2. Australian Identity and Relationships 3. World War II 4. The Indonesian Invasion 5. The Occupation of East Timor 6. Collapse and Resurgence 7. Solidarity and Conversion Afterword Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExplores the major political, social, economic, religious and cultural changes impacting what was once the most important region of the Roman world.

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Book SynopsisProvides a new account of the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and its non-Muslim subjects.

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Book SynopsisA detailed look at how South Africa's museum present the nation's past, and how they can serve as a lens for examining changes in South African society at large.Trade Review'Dubin has collected a vital series of interviews which, in full, are a highly significant archive of historical and museological thinking in this transitionary period.' - Institute of Historical ResearchTable of ContentsUsing War to Put Food on the Table: Reflections on a Decade of Democracy A White Step in a Black Direction: Inertia, Breakthrough and Change in South African Museums The First Shall Be Last: Picturing Indigenous Peoples and the Sins of Long Ago Prisoners to Science: Sarah Bartmann and "Others" "A Pustular Sore on a Queen's Forehead": District Six and the Politics of the Past "The History of Our Future": Revamping Edifices of a Bygone Era Tête-à-tête: Museums and Monuments, Conversations and Soliloquies

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Book SynopsisUltimately, it illuminates public health not only as a showcase of colonial humanism and a tool of control, but as an arena of mediocrity, powerlessness, and stupidity.Trade ReviewThis is a serious work that deserves serious contemplation; it will be of interest to historians from a variety of fields.—ChoiceGuillaume Lachenal's engaging body of work has long been on the radar of global scholars of public health and medicine in Africa. It is, then, both a true pleasure for readers and vital addition to Anglophone literature in the field that we now have his monograph, The Lomidine Files, in Noémi Tousignant's elegant translation from the original French . . . This is an innovative and sophisticated study that rewards sustained engagement. Though it will appeal to a wide audience interested in medical controversy or public health ethics, it is also an excellent addition to undergraduate and graduate syllabi in public health, the histories of science and medicine, world history, African studies, and development studies.—Mari K. Webel, University of Pittsburgh, Bulletin of the History of MedicineI urge medical scientists, health activists, public health experts, executives of multinational pharmaceutical companies, public officials of affected countries, and officials of international organizations, bilateral development agencies and philanthropic organizations—not to mention the sociologists, anthropologists, historians and others who study them—to read this book. And read it carefully. It cannot tell us how to avoid the catastrophic outcomes of bêtise, but it should have a humbling effect, as it offers a painful remainder of the costs to others—not of evil, but of simple passivity, stupidity and arrogance.—Nitsan Chorev, European Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Wonder Drug2. Experiments without Borders3. The New Deal of Colonial Medicine4. The Spectacle of Eradication5. Lomidine, the Individual, and Race6. Good Citizens and Bad Brothers7. Yokadouma, Cameroon, November–December 19548. “We Cried without Making a Palaver”9. The Misfires of the Imperial Machine10. The Swan Song of Eradication11. How the Drug Became Useless and DangerousEpilogueAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations and AcronymsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain''s role in this terrible history. His investigation took him to Demerara (now Guyana), the site of an uprising by enslaved people in 1823, the largest in the British Empire and a key trigger in the abolition of slavery. Charting the dramatic build-up to this landmark event through the eyes of four people - an enslaved man, a missionary, a colonist, and a slaveholder - Harding lays bare the true impact of years of unimaginable cruelty and incredible courage and asks how those who benefitted from slavery can take responsibility for the White Debt.Trade ReviewBrilliant . . . Striking . . . Full of details that will send a chill down your spine. Harding delivers a masterclass in how authors of history can play an active role, for good and for bad, in how these moral questions are framed -- Nesrine Malik * GUARDIAN *A deep dive into colonialism and enslavement, with personal legacies that continue to resonate today - a deeply affecting and forensically elegant book for our times -- PHILIPPE SANDSThis well-researched history of the 1823 slave uprising in Demerara is a page-turner . . . Harding lays out what happened with novelistic (but still assiduously researched) flair * TELEGRAPH *Authentic, bold and poignant, WHITE DEBT is a captivating tale of resistance and an urgent antidote to our collective amnesia -- DAVID LAMMY MPThe Demerara episode graphically reveals the hidden cruelties of colonialism, not to mention British myopia towards the atrocities. Harding tells the story with impressive drama and detail * THE TIMES *WHITE DEBT is an important step in our routinely dysfunctional national conversation about the Atlantic slave trade -- SATHNAM SANGHERA[A] vital read * THE i NEWSPAPER, best non-fiction books of 2022 *Excellent . . . Harding is a thoughtful and honest writer . . . an exemplary piece of history writing * LITERARY REVIEW *An important and timely book told with great sympathy, honesty and an original approach. His family is always present, in the background, but he does not shy away from criticism and asking big questions which many in this country must try and answer -- ANNE SEBBASome write about the past. Thomas Harding, our most human historian, has, once again, brought it alive . . . in all its tragedy, glory, complexity -- JOHN LEWIS-STEMPELPuts Harding alongside other recent revisers of Britain's imperial history . . . provides a valuable introduction to the various strands of this debate -- Ashish Ghadiali * OBSERVER *Honest, compelling and certainly timely, WHITE DEBT lays bare the nature of a crime against an entire race of people, for which there was no punishment. As Thomas Harding has done, all readers should consider; what is my part in the wider story of the British slave trade and how do I make amends where necessary? -- ELSIE HARRY, African-Guyanese Activist & PoetGripping . . . Novelistic in its narrative energy, its jeopardy and its tensions, WHITE DEBT is a rich story so well told -- ALLAN LITTLEI was much moved by WHITE DEBT. I am so glad Thomas Harding wrote it. He tells the story of Britain's appalling role in slavery with great sensitivity and leads the reader to the only possible conclusion, that there is a debt and it must be paid -- RABBI JULIA NEUBERGERWHITE DEBT is a timely, pioneering, game changer. Its compelling narrative and thought-provoking reflections enable us to (re)visit plantation slavery with fresh eyes. It invites the reader to reflect on a core period of British history that has for too long been ignored or dismissed as bearing no relationship to present-day inequities that exist between White and Black people. This book is compulsory reading for anyone interested in understanding the case for reparations and will delight readers who are tired of portrayals of enslaved Africans as marginal to the history of abolitionism. WHITE DEBT is a courageous tour de force -- JUANITA COX, co-founder of Guyana SpeaksA major study of the 1823 slave uprising in British Guyana, revealing the utter brutality of the slaveowners and the courage as well as the organisational genius of the African leaders of the uprising. That Harding inserts himself in the narrative, seeking to make amends for his forebears' involvement in slave-produced commodities, makes his book all the more compelling, since it creates a dialogue between the living and the dead -- PROFESSOR DAVID DABYDEEN

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Book SynopsisRobert Nichols reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present.Trade Review“Theft Is Property! is an intellectually riveting and necessary critical consideration of the genealogy of dispossession as it is used to different ends by Indigenous scholars and activists and within Marxist critiques of capitalism and labor. Its emphasis on the normativity of dispossession as a recursive theft into property formation that explains the structural formation of settler colonialism will be a central text in shaping discussions around why Indigenous critique matters beyond identity politics.” -- Jodi A. Byrd, author of * The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism *“In this extraordinary work of political theory, Robert Nichols offers a wholesale revision of the conceptual problematic of dispossession in light of the history of settler colonialism and in a context of contemporary Indigenous resurgence. Through sustained engagements with critical race theory, Marxism, and feminism, Nichols forcefully reanimates the moral sense and political understanding of Indigenous dispossession as a recursive process by which proprietary claims of settlers have been constituted and Indigenous subjects simultaneously made bereft of something they never claimed to own—a transformation of theft into property. This profound and pathbreaking work will change the conversation across several fields.” -- Nikhil Pal Singh, author of * Race and America’s Long War *"Nichols’ book certainly adds to the scholarly literature about the subjects of property, dispossession, slavery, and the resistance of the various people affected to the injustices done to them. The book is timely: this is the right moment in history for such a book to appear. . . . The book is highly recommended." -- John T. Sneed * International Social Science Review *"Theft is Property! will prove an important and influential book. It is an exemplary work of political theory, which makes its political and methodological arguments with exceptional clarity and precision. The dialogue Nichols stages, drawing from anarchism, Marxism, critical race theory, and feminism alongside Indigenous political thought, is sure to have a wide-ranging impact across multiple fields. Most significantly, Theft is Property! will prove a landmark text in studies of dispossession and counterdispossession, centering Indigenous scholarship and activism while elaborating a broader problematic that requires further attention and investigation." -- Christopher Balcom * Contemporary Political Theory *"Nichols’s historically grounded text is essential reading for anyone seeking a broader critical understanding of dispossession at the intersection of contract law, land seizure, and class warfare." -- Caitlin Simmons * Western American Literature *"With incredible precision, dexterity, and clarity, Theft is Property! leaves us with the diverse modalities of dispossession in relation to bodily integrity and selfhood as well as land and the nonhuman world—which far exceed the discrete parameters of property and territory." -- Iyko Day * American Quarterly *"Theft is Property! is an act of expressive insurgency.… This is a complex and deeply layered book that will repay multiple readings." -- Shane Chalmers * Theory & Event *"Theft Is Property! quietly but decidedly calls us to collective action and expressive insurgency, laying the groundwork for multigenerational, transnational struggles of counter-dispossession." -- Sandy Grande * Political Theory *"For those of us outside of the field of political/critical theory, Nichols’s Theft Is Property! is an important reminder of the instability of core critical concepts and the advantages of putting them into dialogue with the conditions of their specific contexts." -- Rita M. Palacios * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. That Sole and Despotic Dominion 16 2. Marx, after the Feast 52 3. Indigenous Structural Critique 85 4. Dilemmas of Self-Ownership, Rituals of Antiwill 116 Conclusion 144 Notes 161 Bibliography 203 Index 225

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Book SynopsisIn The Center Cannot Hold Jenna N. Hanchey examines the decolonial potential emerging from processes of ruination and collapse. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Tanzania at an internationally funded NGO as it underwent dissolution, Hanchey traces the conflicts between local leadership and Western paternalism as well as the unstable subjectivity of Western volunteers—including the author—who are unable to withstand the contradictions of playing the dual roles of decolonializing ally and white savior. She argues that Western institutional and mental structures must be allowed to fall apart to make possible the emergence of decolonial justice. Hanchey shows how, through ruination, privileged subjects come to critical awareness through repeated encounters with their own complicity, providing an opportunity to delink from and oppose epistemologies of coloniality. After things fall apart, Hanchey posits, the creation of decolonial futures depends on the labor reqTrade Review“A true work of unlearning for relearning! Erudite, lucid, profound, this book successfully shakes the foundations of Western messianism.” -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, University of BayreuthTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Center Cannot Hold 1 Part I 1. Doctors with(out) Burdens 25 2. All of Us Phantasmic Saviors 58 3. Haunted Reflexivity 88 Part II 4. Water in the Cracks 117 5. Fluid (Re)mapping 141 6. Things Fall Apart 163 Conclusion. Rivulets in the Ruins 185 Notes 195 Bibliography 217 Index 231

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Book SynopsisThis book explores an album of popular music with a remarkable significance to a violent wave of postcolonial tensions in the Netherlands in the 1970s. Several actions were claimed by a small number of first-generation descendants of ca. 12,500 reluctant migrants from the young independent state of Indonesia (former Dutch East Indies). Transferred in 1951, this culturally coherent group consisted of ex-Royal Dutch Colonial Army personnel and their families. Their ancient roots in the Moluccan archipelago and their protestant-christian faith defined their minority image. Their sojourn should have been temporary, but frustratingly turned out to be permanent. At the height of strained relations, Massada rose to the occasion. Astaganaga (1978) is a telling example of the will to negotiate a different diasporic Moluccan identity through uplifting contemporary sounds.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Part I Backdrops Colonial times and impact Popular music in exile Latin in the Lowlands Part II Massada before Astaganaga In the air What’s in a name Decisive break The action years Part III Massada’s Astaganaga The making of Track by track Sleeve art and credits Reception and rewards Part IV Massada after Astaganaga Bang the drum Mission accomplished Full circle Hindsight Part V Afterwork Discography About research Literature Thanks About author Endnotes

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals how white worker identity was constituted, examines the white labouring class as an ethnically and nationally heterogeneous formation comprised of both men and women, and emphasises the active participation of white workers in the ongoing and contested production of race. White wage labourers' experiences, both as exploited workers and as part of the privileged white minority, offer insight into how race and class co-produced one another and how boundaries fundamental to settler colonialism were regulated and policed. Based on original research conducted in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK, this book offers a unique theoretical synthesis of work on gender, whiteness studies, labour histories, settler colonialism, Marxism, emotions and the New African Economic History.Trade Review'It takes a fine eye and a supple mind to trace and understand the finest grains of the class and racial struggles that unfolded in colonial central Africa from their earliest manifestations in white trade unions to the Rhodesian Front’s war against the insurgent Zimbabwean liberation movements. Ginsburgh’s study, thematically rich and informed by great sensitivity to comparative issues and transdisciplinary studies, brings out every nuance of those struggles by showing how, just beneath the tectonic plates of manifest contestation swirls the hidden magma of class, gender, race and, contingently constructed, identity.'Professor Charles van Onselen, author of The Fox and the Flies and The Seed is Mine -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The making of white worker identity2 The Great Depression and shifting boundaries of 'white work'3 The Second World War4 The 'multiracial' Central African Federation, 1953–63 5 White fights, white flight and the Rhodesian Front, 1962–79ConclusionSelected bibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSettlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom from the Second World War to the end of apartheid in 1994. While South Africa and Rhodesia, like other settler colonies, had a long history of restricting the entry of migrants of colour, in the 1960s under existential threat and after abandoning formal ties with the Commonwealth they began to actively recruit white migrants, the majority of whom were British. At the same time, with the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, the British government began to implement restrictions aimed at slowing the migration of British subjects of colour. In all three nations, these policies were aimed at the preservation of nations imagined as white, revealing the persistence of the racial ideologies of empire across the era of decolonisation.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. ‘The height of my ambition is to be a Springbok’: Wartime travel to southern Africa, race and the discourse of opportunity2. ‘We want new settlers of British stock’: Planning for post-war migration3. ‘Immigration on a Selective Basis’: The competing imperatives of minority settler colonialism, 1945-19534. From Britons to ‘New Rhodesians’ and ‘New South Africans’: The consolidation of racial nationalism in the 1950s5. The demographic defence of the white nation, 1960-1975 6. ‘The last bastion of the British Empire’: The politics of migration in the final days of Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa, 1976-19947. ‘I still don’t have a country’: The southern African settler diaspora after decolonisationEpilogueSelect bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book fills the long-standing void in the existing scholarship by constructing an empirical study of colonial governance and political culture in Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997.Using under-exploited archival and unofficial data in London and Hong Kong, it overcomes the limitations in the existing literature which has been written mainly by political scientists and sociologists, and has been primarily theoretically driven. It addresses a highly contested and timely agenda, one in which colonial historians have made major interventions: the nature of colonial governance and autonomy of the colonial polity. This book focusing on colonialism and the Chinese society in Hong Kong in a pivotal period will generate meaningful discussions and heated debates on comparisons between ‘colonialism’ in different space and time: between Hong Kong and other former British colonies; and between colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong.Trade Review'Timely and provocative, Mok’s deeply researched and compellingly argued book is a wake-up callto those politicians and academics who still embrace the erroneous “myth of political apathy andstability in Hong Kong” (p. 257) and fail to understand Hong Kong’s political culture throughits ongoing history of political activism. Covert Colonialism is essential reading for those interestedin Hong Kong history and politics, as well as in the evolving nature of colonial governance anddecolonization during the 20th century, the effects of which can still be felt today.'The China Quarterly -- .Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgementsIntroduction1. Constructing ‘public opinion’ through Town Talk and MOOD2. The Chinese as the official language movement3. The anti-corruption movement4. The campaign against telephone rate increases5. The campaign to reopen the Precious Blood Golden Jubilee School6. The changing immigration discourse and policy 7. The British Nationality Act controversy8. Overt public opinion surveys and shifting popular attitudes towards proposed and implemented constitutional reforms ConclusionSelect bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the ‘cultural turn’ in historical scholarship and the ‘new imperial history’. It addresses topics that have been neglected in recent literature, providing a series of political and institutional perspective; at the same time it recognises the importance of developments across the empire, not least in terms of how they affected imperial ‘policy’ and its implementation. It analyses a range of contemporary debates and ideas – political and intellectual as well as religious and administrative – relating to political economy, legal geography and sovereignty, as well as the messy realities of the imperial project, including the costs and losses of empire, collectively and individually.Table of Contents1 Introduction – Jason Peacey2 The pivot of empire: party politics, Spanish America and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) – Steve Pincus3 Party politics and empire in the early eighteenth century – J. H. Elliott 4 From anti-popery and anti-puritanism to orientalism – William J. Bulman5 Protestantism and the politics of overseas expansion in later Stuart England – Gabriel Glickman6 Reconciling empire: English political economy and the Spanish imperial model, 1660–90 – Leslie Theibert7 Legal geography and colonial sovereignty: the making of early English ‘Bombay’ – Philip J. Stern8 Compensating imperial loyalty, 1700–1800 – Julian Hoppit9 Sheffield’s vision: the American Revolution and the 1783 partition of North America – Eliga H. Gould10 Legal pluralism and Burke’s law of nations – Jennifer Pitts Index

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the shared history of the French empire from the perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, Creole, and indigenous agency in the construction of imperial spaces. The decentred approach to a global history of the French colonial realm allows a new understanding of power relations in different locales. Providing case studies from four parts of the French empire, the book draws on illustrative evidence from the French archives in Aix-en-Provence and Paris as well as local archives in each colonial location. The case studies, in the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, and India, each examine building projects to show the mixed group of planners, experts, and workers, the composite nature of building materials, and elements of different ‘glocal’ styles that give the empire its concrete manifestation.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Building the French empire1 Colonial enclosure: Fortification and castles on the Lesser Antilles 2 Ambitions to empire in India: Pondichéry as an imperial city in the Mughal state system 3 Decay and repair: Fort Royal as a perennial construction site on Martinique 4 Mixed society and African “Rococo”: ‘French’ style in Saint-Louis and on Gorée Island 5 Variegated engineering: The builders of the Caribbean empire 6 Community and segregation in Louisbourg: An ‘ideal’ colonial city in Atlantic Canada 7 Motley style: Affective buildings and emotional communities on Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti Conclusion: The empire as a material construct Archival Sources Published Sources Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn the 1980s, Britain actively engaged with China in order to promote globalisation and manage Hong Kong’s decolonisation. Influenced by neoliberalism, Margaret Thatcher saw Britain as a global trading nation, which was well placed to serve China’s reform. During the negotiations over Hong Kong’s future, British diplomats aimed to educate the Chinese in free-market capitalism. Nevertheless, Deng Xiaoping held an alternative vision of globalisation, one that privileged sovereignty and socialism over market liberalism and democracy. By drawing extensively upon the declassified British archives along with Chinese sources, this book explores how Britain and China negotiated for Hong Kong’s future, and how Anglo-Chinese relations flourished after 1984 but suffered a setback as a result of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. This original study argues that Thatcher was a pragmatic neoliberal, and the British diplomacy of ‘educating’ China yielded mixed results.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Anglo-Chinese relations, 19792 Globalisation without decolonisation? Hong Kong, 1979–813 Not for (re)turning: Thatcher meets Deng Xiaoping, 19824 Bargaining for sovereignty and administration, 1982–835 Negotiating autonomy and continuity, 19846 Anglo-Chinese relations and postcolonial globalisation, 1985–867 Democratisation and its limits, 1985–89ConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisIn The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization, Esmaeil Zeiny brings together a collection of essays that interrogate the colonial legacies, the contemporary power structure, and the geopolitics of knowledge production. The scholars in this collection illustrate how the writing-back paradigm engages in a conversation and paves the way for a “dialogical and pluri-versal” world where the Rest is no longer excluded. Among the important features of this book is that it presents avenues for “decoloniality” and “epistemic disobedience.” This book will be of interest to scholars and students of all Social Science and Humanities disciplines but it is particularly important for those in the disciplines of sociology, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, literature, and theory and philosophy of Social Sciences and Humanities. Contributors include: Dustin J. Byrd, Ciarunji Chesaina, Hiba Ghanem, Mladjo Ivanovic, Masumi Hashimoto Odari, Arjuna Parakrama, JM. Persánch, Andrew Ridgeway, Rudolf J. Siebert, and Esmaeil Zeiny.Table of ContentsForeword: Whose Rest is Best? (Un)Learning Binaries from Subalternity Arjuna Parakrama Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Rest and Decolonial Epistemologies Esmaeil Zeiny Part 1: Positioning New Paradigms1 Must Non-Europeans Think Like Us? A Critique of Modern Thoughtlessness in Western and Resten Societies Dustin J. Byrd 2 End or Continuation of World History: the European, Slavic and American World – A New Paradigm? Rudolf J. Siebert 3 Echoes of the Past: Colonial Legacy and Eurocentric Humanitarianism Mladjo Ivanovic Part 2: Positioning Counter-discourses4 Women Refashion Iran: Decolonizing the Rehistoricized Narratives Esmaeil Zeiny 5 African Literature: Leadership, Plight of the Majority and Hope Masumi Hashimoto Odari and Ciarunji Chesaina 6 Aesthetic Hospitality: Mustafa Saʾeed as Guest in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North Hiba Ghanem 7 The Rest in the White West: After the Empire is Buried, Shadows of Your Black Memory Are Born JM. Persánch 8 The Topography of Nostalgia: Imaginative Geographies and the Rise of Nationalism Andrew Ridgeway Index

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