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Book SynopsisThe most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent's social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.India's history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral nomadism, and then evolving into a uniquely stratified society. The pattern of inward invasion plus outward migration was established early: from Alexander the Great via the march of Islam and the great Moghuls to the coming of the East India Company and the establishment of the British Raj.Older, richer and more distinctive than almost any other, India's culture furnishes all that the historian could wish for in the way of continuity and diversity. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent, while sharing a common history and culture, are not now, and never have been, a single unitary state; the book accTrade Review‘A delight…one of the best general studies of the subcontinent.’ Andrew Lycett, Sunday Times ‘Ambitious, colourful and fascinating.’ Lawrence James, The Times ‘It is hard to imagine anyone succeeding more gracefully in producing a balanced overview than John Keay has done in ‘India: A History’…a book that is as fluent and readable as it is up-to-date and impartial. Hardly a page passes without some fascinating nugget or surprising fact…one can only hope that John Keay’s ‘India’ will be widely read, and its lessons taken to heart.’ Guardian ‘Certainly the most balanced and lucid history…his passion for India shines through and illuminates every page…puts Keay in the front rank of Indian historiographers.’ Spectator

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Book SynopsisBeginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in postcolonial studies for the first time and has become an established international best-seller in the field. In this fully revised and updated second edition, John McLeod introduces the major areas of concern in a clear, accessible and organised fashion. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface to the second edition Introduction1. From ‘Commonwealth’ to ‘Postcolonial’2. Reading colonial discourses3. Nationalist representations4. The nation in question5. Re-reading and re-writing English literature6. Postcolonialism and feminism7. Diaspora identities8. The limits of postcolonialism?Appendix: ‘The Overland Mail (foot-service to the hills)’ (Rudyard Kipling)Further reading Index

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Book SynopsisTraces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native Americans in the United States, on Ashkenazi Jews in Western Europe, on Arab Jews in Israel/Palestine, and on people of African descent in Brazil, this book shows how race marks and reproduces the different relationships of inequality into which Europeans have coopted subaltern populations: territorial dispossession, enslavement, confinement, assimilation, and removal.Charting the different modes of domination that engender specific regimes of race and the strategies of anti-colonial resistance they entail, the book powerfully argues for cross-racial solidarities that respect these historical differences.Trade Review'Race is a social construct.' Sure, but what does that mean? Patrick Wolfe, preeminent scholar of settler colonial studies, tackles this question with theoretical sophistication and vivid historical detail. Spanning four continents and four centuries, Wolfe reveals the operations of race-making in specific historical processes, in the always contingent struggles over land, labor, culture, and power. A magnificent work of erudition and elucidation, Traces of History will change how we talk about the 'social construction of race.' -- Robin D. G. Kelley, UCLA, author of Africa Speaks, America AnswersWolfe brilliantly historicises a comprehensive and global thesis, concluding that racism is not here to stay. An original and essential text. -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United StatesA unique tour de force. This powerful journey into the past, covering Australia, North America, Brazil, Europe and Palestine, will leave you convinced that racism can be defeated, but its elusive and cynical human attitude has still to be acknowledged and confronted. No other book will help you do this better. -- Ilan Pappe, University of Exeter, author of The Idea of IsraelAlthough racial conflict and racial injustice have shaped the modern history of the entire planet, there is little awareness of how pervasive the legacy of race and racism really is. Traces of History at long last provides a global, comparative text on race. Wolfe draws on a wide range of scholars to provide an accessible text on race and racism as worldwide phenomena. A deeply researched, long-overdue effort. Highly recommended for course adoption! -- Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Racial Formation in the United StatesAs profound as it is unsettling. -- Gershon Shafir, author of Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli–Palestinian ConflictWolfe's work directly addresses the questions "how are races constructed, under what circumstances, and in whose interests?" A thorough reckoning with these questions in Traces of History powerfully suggests that if we understand how race was constructed in various contexts, then we can work to comprehensively dismantle those constructions to the benefit of a truly egalitarian society. -- Steven Delmagori * Socialism and Democracy *

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Book Synopsis ‘This is history bursting at the seams with English eccentrics and Indian gentry…the charm of Tunzelmann’s approach is to restore her cast to full and vital life’ Observer‘A compelling narrative, sometimes controversial, occasionally perverse, never boring or unintelligent’ SpectatorFully revised and updated for the 70th anniversary. The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime minister-to-be; Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to get Britain out of India without delay. Within hours of the midnight chimes, however, the two new nations of India and Pakistan would descend into ana

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Book SynopsisThis title describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and civilisation.

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Book SynopsisAn inspiring and intersectional re-imagining of the path to liberation in PalestineTrade Review'An inspiring call to action that deconstructs the many oppressive systems we currently find ourselves struggling against, and shows us the way forward' -- Adam Horowitz, Executive Editor at Mondoweiss'The book our movements deserve. Crafted from decades of transnational activism, Nada Elia brilliantly weaves together the challenges of our time and the political frameworks necessary to overcome them' -- Noura Erakat, Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice'I am so grateful that a book such as Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts finally exists! Reading it felt like drinking cold water on a parched day. The writing is bold and brave, the analysis clear-sighted and unflinching. And yet somehow, on top of all this, the book is full of heart, fierce love and radical empathy. A must read' -- Jen Marlowe, author of 'I Am Troy Davis' and 'The Hour of Sunlight''Offers a new map altogether: a map of survival, possibility, and hope. Like the Palestinian struggle for freedom itself, this map is collective, collaborative, built on and for radical love' -- Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara'A compelling, even irresistible case for moving beyond rights and statehood for Palestine to a truly decolonial future. Grounded in the analysis of actual struggles, the book is informed by Elia's commitment to abolitionist feminist practice, which reorients the vision of what a post-Zionist Palestine could look like in crucial ways. Defined by solidarity rather than exceptionalism, this is a truly necessary book' -- David Lloyd, Department of English, University of California, US‘A book about community, resistance, and hope … heart-wrenching, inspirational’ -- ‘Mondoweiss’‘Provides a unique view into the problems of Palestine and the resourcefulness of indigenous people, feminists, and the LGBTQ community globally’ -- ‘Palestine Chronicle’‘Probes us to ask: where do we believe knowledge lies? What does it mean to practise solidarity across differences? How can we work to build a liberated future? Read the book, ask yourself these questions, and then organise to answer them – our liberation depends on it.’ -- ‘Red Pepper’‘A book of hope and purpose … an important contribution to the Palestinian fight for self-determination’ -- ‘Bella Caledonia’Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Unsettling Indigeneity 1. From Cowboys to Indians: Zionism’s Opportunistic Discourse 2. On this Land: Indigenous Struggles from Turtle Island to Palestine Part Two: Overcoming State-Sanctioned Settler Supremacy 3. Déjà Vu: The Apartheid Analogy 4. Lessons Learned: Looking Forward Part Three: We Teach Life, Sir 5. Social and Political Liberation 6. Conclusion: Beyond Boundaries: Greater than the Sum of Our Parts

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Book Synopsis‘A combination of all that is best in memoir, biography and history.’ – Caroline Moorehead 'In this remarkable book... Jauncey has performed the great service of reminding us of a wonderful figure from Scotland’s recent history.' – Alexander McCall Smith It would be impossible to invent Don Roberto today – a fantastic combination of Don Quixote and Sir Gawain, Indiana Jones and the Lone Ranger. He was so multi-faceted, so complex, that every chapter in his story reveals some new and contradictory aspect of his personality. He is best known as the co-founder, with Keir Hardie, of the Scottish Labour Party, and later as the founding president of the Scottish National Party. But in a long and extraordinary life he was many other things besides.

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Book SynopsisSince the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day.Alienation and Freedom collects together unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more personal Fanon and one whose literary and psychiatric works, in particular, take centre stage. These writings provide new depth and complexity to our understanding of Fanon's entire oeuvre revealing more of his powerful thinking about identity, race and activism which remain remarkably prescient. Shedding new light on the work of a major 20th-century philosopher, this disruptive and moving work will shape how we look at the world.Trade ReviewThis is history happening in real time and at ground level ... An important book. The editors have performed a great service to present and future generations of ‘Fanonistes’ by assembling these texts with forensic care. * Literary Review *We must thank Jean Khalfa and Robert Young for this precious compendium. It overflows with possibility and will do more than merely transform scholarly understanding of Fanon’s work and life. Here, at last, is the means to surpass the caricatures and undo all the bad faith that has passed for too long as both criticism and exposition of his revolutionary humanist ethics, his epistemology and his politics. A new era of Fanon studies begins now. -- Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature at King's College London, UK, author of 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack'The demand has been there for years: More, Fanon, give us more! Well, here it is. This collection of formerly unpublished writings has both beauty and breadth. Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young’s erudite, lucid analyses and commentaries contextualizing the selections, and other gems, including correspondence on publishing his works and a catalog of Fanon’s library. There is much here not only for scholars but anyone interested in learning more about and from this great revolutionary thinker and fighter for the causes of dignity and freedom. -- Lewis R. Gordon, author of 'What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought'The publication of Alienation and Freedom is one of the most significant intellectual achievements in the last half century. The volume reaffirms Frantz Fanon’s status as a leading twentieth-century philosopher, psychiatrist, decolonial theorist, and revolutionary. It also reveals a lesser-known Fanon, a Fanon whose previously unpublished works of poeticism and historicism concern themselves with the myriad ways in which we may discern and express the meaning of freedom. The book is brilliant and the editing of Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young superb. -- Neil Roberts, author of 'Freedom as Marronage' and President of the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationThe first intimate look at Frantz Fanon’s brilliance and wide-ranging interests, this volume gives us the full range of his gifts as a playwright, an innovative psychiatrist fully aware of the importance of his theories, and a committed political philosopher. The last section (on his library) lets us share the full intensity of his whole intellectual trajectory—one that influenced the course of decolonial thinking on all continents. Editors Jean Khalfa’s and Robert Young’s painstaking work is a publishing event and an indispensable resource for anyone interested in understanding alienation and the search for social justice. -- Françoise Lionnet, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and African and African American Studies, Harvard University, USAIn Alienation and Freedom, Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young, two of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary thought and postcolonial studies, transport us on an off-road adventure, challenging us at every turn to navigate the treacherous terrain of colonialism, global black consciousness, identity, philosophy, psychiatry, and race, hallmarks of the pioneering writings of Frantz Fanon. Including many previously unavailable or inaccessible essays, this book further confirms Fanon’s status as a major global thinker whose insights, the lasting resonance of which, remain of crucial importance to 21st century society. -- Dominic Thomas, Letessier Professor of French, University of California, Los Angeles, USAThis text compels us towards a more complete understanding of the thinking of Frantz Fanon. This is an impressive array of materials, many unpublished before, which will be absolutely essential to a new generation of scholars and general readers of Fanon. -- Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of Africana Studies and English, Cornell University, USAHere are collected two plays never published before, written when he was a medical student; scientific papers reminded us of his career as a psychiatrist; newly discovered pieces he wrote, often anonymously in El Moudjahid, the organ of the National Liberation Front that led Algeria to independence. But this volume is certainly not a collection of disparate additional pieces from an author whose oeuvre is already complete. On the contrary this book by Frantz Fanon forms a unity: like the rest of the works by the author of the Wretched of the Earth it tells in a unique way the story of the emancipation of the human being from everything that alienates her, everything that separates her from her humanity. Thus it sheds a new light on Frantz Fanon. -- Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, USATable of ContentsGeneral Introduction, by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young Part One: Theatre Fanon, Revolutionary Playwright, by Robert J.C. Young Parallel Hands The Drowning Eye Part Two: Psychiatric writings Fanon: A Revolutionary Psychiatrist, by Jean Khalfa Mental alterations, character modifications, psychic disorders and intellectual deficit in spinocerebellar heredo-degeneration: on a case of Friedreich’s ataxia with delusions of possession Letter to Maurice Despinoy Trait d’union On some cases treated with the Bini method Indications of Bini therapy in the framework of institutional therapies On an attempt at readaptation of a patient with morpheic epilepsy and series character disorders Note on techniques of sleeping therapy with conditioning and electroencephalographic monitoring Notre Journal, introduction by Amina Azza Bekkat Letter to Maurice Despinoy Social therapy in a ward of Muslim men: methodological difficulties Daily life in the douars Introduction to sexuality disorders among North-African men Current aspects of mental assistance in Algeria Ethnopsychiatric considerations Confessional behaviour in North Africa (1) Confessional behaviour in North Africa (2) Letter to Maurice Despinoy Attitude of Maghrebin Muslims towards madness The TAT with Muslim women, sociology of perception and imagination Letter to the resident minister The phenomenon of agitation in the psychiatric setting: general considerations, psychopathological meaning Biological study of the action of lithium citrate in manic fits On a case of torsion spasm First attempts with injectable meprobamate in hypochondriac states Day hospitalization in psychiatry: value and limits Day hospitalization in psychiatry: value and limits. Second part: doctrinal considerations Psychiatry in its meeting with society Part Three: Political writings Introduction, by Jean Khalfa The Demoralized Foreign Legion Algeria’s Independence: an everyday reality National Independence: the only possible outcome Algeria and the French Crisis The Algerian conflict and African anticolonialism A democratic revolution One more time: the reason for the prerequisite Algerian revolutionary consciousness Strategies of an Army with its Back to the Wall The survivors of no man’s land The testament of a ‘man of the left’ The rationale of ultracolonialism The Western World and the Fascist Experience in France Gaullist Illusions The Cross of a People The Anti-Imperialist Movement’s Rise and the Retards of Pacification The United Combat of African Countries Richard Wright’s White man, listen! At Conakry, He Declares: ‘World Peace passes via National Independence’ Africa Accuses the West The Stooges of Imperialism Letter to Ali Shariati, presentation by Sara Shariati Part Four: Publishing Fanon (France and Italy, 1959-1971) Introduction, by Jean Khalfa Correspondence between François Maspero and Frantz Fanon The Italian Fanon: unearthing a hidden editorial history, by Neelam Srivastava Part Five: Frantz Fanon’s library List established, presented and commented upon by Jean Khalfa Key dates Index

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Book SynopsisWhen African Modernism was first published in 2015, it was showered with international praise and has been sought after ever since it went out of print in 2018. Marking Park Books’ 10th anniversary, this landmark book will now be available again. Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, most African countries gained independence from their respective colonial powers. Architecture became one of the principal means by which the newly formed states expressed their national identity. African Modernism investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. It features 100 buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, selected floor plans and sections. The vast majority of images were taken by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster especially for the book’s first edition, documenting the buildings in their present state. Each country is portrayed through an introductory text and a timeline of historic events. Additional essays on specific aspects and topics of postcolonial Africa, likewise richly illustrated with images and documents, round out this outstanding volume.

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

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Book SynopsisOliver MacDonagh described the first edition of "Ireland: The Union and its Aftermath", published in 1968, as "a very small book with very large themes". The book rapidly reached the status of a classic and remains a thought-provoking survey of the history of Ireland from the Act of Union of 1800 until modern times. It has been unavailable for a long time. MacDonagh regarded the Act of Union as the most important single factor in shaping Ireland as a nation in the modern world. Although subordination to Britain had influenced Irish development before 1800, it took a rapidly different form under the Act of Union: "The experience of being assimilated by, and resisting assimilation into, a powerful and alien empire - perhaps the master-culture of the 19th century - was truly traumatic." For the second edition, published in 1977, which is reprinted here with a new introduction by W. J. Mc Cormack, MacDonagh included a chapter on the period 1968-73, taking account of the early years of the troubles in Northern Ireland.Trade Review"This is a top-line political history of the old school, and none the worse for it." Irish Democrat March 2004 "all readers should appreciate the total achievement of MacDonagh's ... a gathering of clearly and gracefully presented original and perceptive ideas and observations, the product of much research and deep reflection, compacted into a relatively short space ... should be in the library of all those interested in Irish Studies. It is an ideal complement to standard texts in college and university Irish history courses." Irish Literary Supplement Fall 2004 "a book that deserves its new designation as a classic of Irish history." Irish Studies Review 13 (4) 2005 "University College Dublin Press has now published over thirty 'Classics of Irish History'. These contemporary accounts by well known personalities of historical events and attitudes have an immediacy that conventional histories do not have. Introductions by modern historians provide additional historical background and, with hindsight, objectivity." Books Ireland Nov 2007 "Scholars of nineteenth-century Irish and Irish-American politics should reacquaint themselves with these classics, part of a long running and immensely useful series from University College Dublin Press." Irish Literary Supplement Fall 2008Table of ContentsThe Union; the siamese twins; disaffection; the new nationalism; the new state; the new economy; old lamps for new.

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Book SynopsisMany would rather change worlds than change the world. The settlement of communities in 'empty lands' somewhere else has often been proposed as a solution to growing contradictions. While the lands were never empty, sometimes these communities failed miserably, and sometimes they prospered and grew until they became entire countries. Building on a growing body of transnational and interdisciplinary research on the political imaginaries of settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination, this book uncovers and critiques an autonomous, influential, and coherent political tradition - a tradition still relevant today. It follows the ideas and the projects (and the failures) of those who left or planned to leave growing and chaotic cities and challenging and confusing new economic circumstances, those who wanted to protect endangered nationalities, and those who intended to pre-empt forthcoming revolutions of all sorts, including civil and social wars. They displaced, and moved to other islands and continents, beyond the settled regions, to rural districts and to secluded suburbs, to communes and intentional communities, and to cyberspace. This book outlines the global history of a resilient political idea: to seek change somewhere else as an alternative to embracing (or resisting) transformation where one is.Trade ReviewThe political theory of settler colonies has a centuries-long history amounting to a distinct, if little understood intellectual tradition. In The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea, Lorenzo Veracini reconstructs this tradition for the first time. In seeking to escape the contradictions of the old world, he shows, settlers brought different ones to the new world that continue to structure the polities they founded. -- A. Dirk Moses, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillIn this brilliant tour de force, a major theorist of settler colonialism ranges across the globe to unearth a hidden political tradition with enormous and costly consequences. By revealing how our world has been shaped and reshaped by the fantasy of going someplace else to escape revolution, The World Turned Inside Out has an urgent message: we must confront injustice and crisis right where we are. -- Jeffrey Ostler, University of OregonGlobal capitalism has always been driven by the export of people as well as commodities, of people as commodities. In The World Turned Inside Out, Lorenzo Veracino shows us how European migration to settler colonies was propelled by a specific project of domestic political "pacification", designed to keep the homeland safe from revolution. In this superbly researched history of the politics, theories and cultural practices of settler colonialism, Veracino also reveals the utilitarian casual disregard for the millions of indigenous peoples across the continents whose bereft lives would be lost, disrupted, and forever disempowered as a consequence. This much-needed book uncovers the stark realities behind settler colonialism as it has been practised on every continent. -- Robert J. C. Young, New York UniversityThis important book not only salvages the global history of settler colonialism from its traditional nationalist packaging, but also reunites 'settlerism' with its alter ego, metropolitan revolutionary movements. At last, the 'world turned upside down' meets 'the world turned inside out'. -- James Belich, University of OxfordWith this book Lorenzo Veracini cements his reputation as one of the most ambitious and insightful scholars of settler colonialism. Sweeping in its historical and geographical reach, and bold in its arguments, The World Turned Inside Out is a provocative and illuminating analysis of the centrality of settler colonialism in the making of the modern world. -- Duncan Bel, University of CambridgeWorld Turned Inside Out is a brilliant exploration of settler colonialism as a political tradition in the making, predicated on a search for actual space in order to get away in Europe from existing upheavals or removing those who potentially can cause such an upheaval. Lorenzo Veracini focuses on such dislocations that brought displacement of indigenous people as part of the history of Western revolution and counter revolution. As such it asks us to rethink both tradition and revolution as transnational and global phenomena that sustained the tradition of settler colonialism even after most of these projects ended, preserving inside and outside the West Eurocentrism, racism, and capitalism. While the revisited historical chapters might seem familiar, you are invited here to reappraise them from a new and contemporary vantage point - in the midst of a new era of dislocation, displacement, resettlement and maybe even unsettlement. The human tendency to dislocate (and displace) in order to avoid upheaval, insoluble predicaments and persecution may move in the future beyond to extra-terrestrial spaces. Before this happens, it is good moment to ponder on its history until today and this is an excellent guide for such a tour into the past before we re-invent a new kind of settler colonialism. -- Ilan Pappe, University of ExeterWhat Veracini terms 'volitional' or 'voluntary' displacement stems from the belief that migration and settlement can head off social unrest. The World Turned Inside Out presents a global history of this phenomenon through wide-ranging and meticulously researched case studies. -- Sarah Maddison * Australian Book Review *Veracini takes his readers on a captivating journey spanning five centuries and six continents in an effort to trace what he believes to be a recurring yet under-analysed historical movement. -- Neve Gordon * Times Higher Education *The World Turned Inside Out is readable and compelling. It reflects Veracini's enormous intellectual reach across vast timescales and beyond the Anglo-world. The chapters chart settler colonialism's beginnings, its peak and its ends by weaving through some well-known and other remarkably obscure settler projects. The sum of these parts is a worldly, rich and new intellectual history. -- Lisa Ford * Australian Historical Studies *

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Book SynopsisThis survey of the rise and decline of European overseas empires asks how and why these empires were formed, persisted, and eventually fell. The author explains Europe's long occupation of global centre stage and seeks to throw new light on today's postcolonial world and the legacies of empire.

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Book SynopsisAMERICAN COLONIES starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North America could be perceived.Dropping the usual Anglocentric description of North America''s fate, Taylor brilliantly conveys the far more vivid and startling story of the competing interests--Spanish, French, English, Native, Russian--that over the centuries shaped and reshaped both the continent and its ''suburbs'' in the Caribbean and the Pacific. It is one of the greatest of all human stories.Trade Review"Formidable...provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity." -The New York Times Book Review"A superb overview of colonial America." -Christian Science Monitor"Compelling, readable, and fresh, American Colonies is perhaps the most brilliant piece of synthesis in recent American historical writing." —Phillip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of American Culture and History at the University of Michigan“Even the serious student of history will find a great deal of previously obscure information. The book offers a balanced understanding of the diverse peoples and forces that converged on this continent and influenced the course of American history.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Crammed full of fascinating material uncovered by historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists in the past half-century.” —NewsdayTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Encounters1. Natives, 13,000 B.C.-A.D. 14922. Colonizers, 1400-18003. New Spain, 1500-16004. The Spanish Frontier, 1530-17005. Canada and Iroquoia, 1500-1660Part II. Encounters6. Virginia, 1570-16507. Chesapeake Colonies, 1650-17508. New England, 1600-17009. Puritans and Indians, 1600-170010. The West Indies, 1600-170011. Carolina, 1670-176012. Middle Colonies, 1600-1700Part III. Empires13. Revolutions, 1685-173014. The Atlantic, 1700-8015. Awakenings, 1700-7516. French America, 1650-175017. The Great Plains, 1680-180018. Imperial Wars and Crisis, 1739-7519. The Pacific, 1760-1820AcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFrantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much about how Fanon's thought developed, showing that, for him, psychiatry was part of a much wider socio-political struggle. His political, revolutionary and literary lives should not then be separated from the psychiatric practice and writings that shaped his thinking about oppression, alienation and the search for freedom.Table of ContentsPlates Illustrations Frantz Fanon: Works Cited General Introduction, by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young Fanon: A Revolutionary Psychiatrist, by Jean Khalfa 1. Mental alterations, character modifications, psychic disorders and intellectual deficit in spinocerebellar heredodegeneration: A case of Friedreich’s ataxia with delusions of possession 2. Letter to Maurice Despinoy 3. Trait d’Union 4. On some cases treated with the Bini method 5. Indications of electroconvulsive therapy within institutional therapies 6. On an attempt to rehabilitate a patient suffering from morpheic epilepsy and serious character disorders 7. Note on sleep therapy techniques using conditioning and electroencephalographic monitoring 8. Our Journal 9. Letter to Maurice Despinoy 10. Social therapy in a ward of Muslim men: Methodological difficulties 11. Daily life in the douars 12. Introduction to sexuality disorders among North Africans 385 13. Currents aspects of mental care in Algeria 14. Ethnopsychiatric considerations 15. Conducts of confession in North Africa (1) 16. Conducts of confession in North Africa (2) 17. Letter to Maurice Despinoy 18. Maghrebi Muslims and their attitude to madness 19. TAT in Muslim women: Sociology of perception and imagination 20. Letter to the Resident Minister 21. The phenomenon of agitation in the psychiatric milieu:General considerations, psychopathological meaning 22. Biological study of the action of lithium citrate on bouts of mania 23. On a case of torsion spasm 24. First tests using injectable meprobamate for hypochondriac states 25. Day hospitalization in psychiatry: Value and limits 26. Day hospitalization in psychiatry: Value and limits. Part two: – doctrinal considerations 27. The meeting between society and psychiatry Frantz Fanon’s Library and Life Franz Fanon’s Library Key dates of Fanon’s chronology Index

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Book SynopsisIn the postcolonial era, Arab societies have been ruled by a variety of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on his native Morocco and building on the work of Foucault, the author of this text explores the ideological and cultural foundations of this persistent authoritarianism.

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Book SynopsisThe Dream Frontier is that rare book that makes available the cumulative wisdom of a century''s worth of clinical examination of dreams and then reconfigured that wisdom on the basis of research in cognitive neuroscience.  Drawing on psychodynamic theorists and neuroscientific researchers with equal fluency and grace, Mark Blechner introduces the reader to a conversation of the finest minds, from Freud to Jung, from Sullivan to Erikson, from Aserinksy and Kleitman to Hobson, as the work toward an understanding of dreams and dreaming that is both scientifically credible and personally meaningful. The dream, in Blechner''s elegantly conceived overview, offers itself to the dreamer as an answer to a question yet to be asked.  Approached in thi open-ended manner, dreams come to reveal the meaning-making systems of the unconscious in the total absence of waking considerations of reality testing and communicability.  Systems of dream interpretation arise Trade Review"Anyone who thinks, writes, or teaches about dreams, and anyone who works with them clinically, needs to be familiar with this remarkable and engaging book. Mark Blechner's clinically based ideas about dream theory and the use of dreams in treatment are thoughtful, lucid, illuminating, and often startlingly original as well. The Dream Frontier will be taught and read all the way from undergraduate classes to psychoanalytic institutes. It is a contribution that will endure."- Donnel Stern, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute"The Dream Frontier offers an exciting excursion into the synthesis of various disciplines: cognitive neuroscience, neurology, clinical psychology and psychiatry, and philosophy in the context of their history during the past 100 years. Blechner addresses his concern with the isolation between scientists studying dreams and clinicians interpreting dreams by challenging both to consider the many frontiers of knowledge currentl involved with dream investigations...Blechner brings a broad intellectual scope to his various topics, using diverse, extensive sources and authors to compare and contrast approaches in developing evidence to support his themes."- Paula Anne Franklin, Ph.D., Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases"With psychoanalytic virtuosity and a good deal of originality, Mark Blechner has reformulated dream theory in its relation to the evolving framework of neurocognitive research, neurophysiology, linguistics, and evolutionary theory. In doing so he has provided the clinician with a wide-ranging and detailed approach to interpretive techniques. In 1953 Robert Fleiss wrote The Revival of Interest in Dreams to stimulate the flagging interest of psychoanalysts on dreams. Blechner's The Dream Frontier promises a second revival that now embeds the dream in the rich interdisciplinary matrix it deserves." - Montague Ullman, M.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiarty, Albert Einstein College of MedicineTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction and Overview. The Dream Frontier. Part II: New Ways of Thinking About Dreams. The Analysis and Creation of Dream Meaning. Secondary Revision, Tertiary Revision, and Beyond. Who Creates, Has, Remembers, Tells, and Interprets the Dream? We Never Lie in Our Dreams. Condensation and Interobjects. Oneiric Darwinism. Dreams and the Language of Thought. Part III: Clinical Work With Dreams. Vectors of Dream Interpretation. How to Analyze Dreams: Fundamental Principles. How to Analyze Dreams: Special Topics. Homonyms and Other Wordplay in Dreams. Dream Acts: Dreams in Analysis as Actions. Dream Symbols. Kleinian Positions and Dreams. The Patient's Dreams and the Countertransference. Dreams as Supervision, Dreams in Supervision. The Clinical Use of Countertransference Dreams. The Reallocation of Madness. Part IV: Sleep, Dreams, and the Brain. Knowing What We Know in Waking and Dreaming . What Dreams Can Tell Us About the Brain. Endoneuropsychic Perception.

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Book SynopsisMasterfully blending narrative and interpretation, and R.F. Foster's Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. 'The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his generation'  Colm Tóibín, London Review of Books 'Remarkable ... Foster gives a wise and balanced account of both forces of unity and forces of diversity ... a master work of scholarship'  Bernard Crick, New Statesman 'A tour de force ... Anyone who really wants to make sense of Ireland and the Irish must read Roy Foster's magnificent and accessible Modern Ireland'  Anthony Clare 'A magnificent book. It supersedes all other accounts of modern Irish history'  Conor Cruise O'Brien, Sunday Times 'Dazzling ... a masterly survey not so much of the events of Irish history over the past four centuries as of the way in which those events acted upon the peoples living in IreTable of ContentsList of MapsList of TablesList of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart OnePrologue: Varieties of IrishnessChapter One: 'Wild Shamrock Manners': Ireland in 1600Chapter Two: 'Nationalism' and RecusancyChapter Three: Plantation: Theory and PracticeChapter Four: Confederate IrelandChapter Five: Cromwellian IrelandChapter Six: Restoration IrelandChapter Seven: Shipwreck and Deliverance: The Foundations of AscendancyPart TwoChapter Eight: The Ascendancy MindChapter Nine: Economy, Society, and the 'Hidden' IrelandChapter Ten: The Structure of PoliticsChapter Eleven: Americans, Volunteers and the Politics of 'Patriotism'Chapter Twelve: 'Enthusiasm Defying Punishment': Revolution, Republicanism and ReactionPart ThreeChapter Thirteen: The Mobilization of Popular PoliticsChapter Fourteen: The Famine: Before and AfterChapter Fifteen: Ireland AbroadChapter Sixteen: Land, Politics and NationalismChapter Seventeen: The Politics of PanellismPart FourChapter Eighteen: The 'New' NationalismChapter Nineteen: War and RevolutionChapter Twenty: The TakeoverChapter Twenty-one: In a Free StateChapter Twenty-two: The de Valera DispensationChapter Twenty-three: 'Modern' Ireland?Appendix:Proclamation of the RepublicChronologyReferencesBibliographical EssayIndex of SubjectsIndex of Names

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Book SynopsisKenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the author of WEEP NOT CHILD (1964), THE RIVER BETWEEN (1965), and PETALS OF BLOOD (1977). Ngugi was chair of the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi from 1972 to 1977. He left Kenya in 1982 and taught at various universities in the United States before he became professor of comparative literature and performance studies at New York University in 1992.

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Book SynopsisNot only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world.Trade ReviewMore so than the Constitution…the Declaration has also become a global document, a piece of intellectual and political common property that has transcended the circumstances of its creation and perhaps even the intentions of its authors. Surprisingly, this afterlife has not received systematic and ‘global’ treatment by historians, and David Armitage is to be congratulated on his concise and well-written study of the Declaration as, to use his own words, ‘an event, a document, and the beginning of a genre.’ He shows that it was first and foremost an ‘international’ document, driven by the need to establish the legitimacy of the united colonies within the state-system and thus their right to conclude alliances against Britain. -- Brendan Simms * Wall Street Journal *David Armitage’s concise and penetrating book, The Declaration of Independence, exemplifies the potential strengths of a truly transnational approach to the writing of history… By looking beyond the borders of the USA, Armitage alters our perspective on the meaning of the Declaration… David Armitage has shed new light on some of the most important questions about the foundations of the modern world by examining a document that is both time-bound and timeless. -- Adam I. P. Smith * Times Literary Supplement *A provocative study of a subject about which one might have thought there was nothing new to report. -- Michael Kenney * Boston Globe *This manifesto deserves reading by students and adults alike. The Declaration is greatly under-noticed. -- Ralph Nader * Ralph Nader’s Reading List *In The Declaration of Independence: A Global History, David Armitage brings original insights and a global perspective to bear on a 1776 Declaration that has become misleadingly familiar. -- Alexander Bevilacqua * Harvard Book Review *The Declaration of Independence has long been regarded as national property. But where US popular lore sees mirrored in its words the image of the nation, David Armitage sees the reflections of a wider world…this is the story of the emergence of a world of states from a world of empires… Without a doubt, this global history testifies to the power of words and ideas. -- Glenda Sluga * Harvard International Review *Armitage’s readable study restores historical context to our own, truly revolutionary Declaration. -- Gilbert Taylor * Booklist *Armitage presents and analyzes the global influence of the Declaration of Independence, showing the document as a powerful global symbol and a means of generating self-governing nations elsewhere during the 50 years after its creation. In order to understand the declaration’s international impact, Armitage examines the development of like declarations in other nations during the 19th century, presenting samples of them from around the world. He seeks to recover ‘the meaning of independence that the Declaration claimed for the United States,’ and he raises thoughtful questions about the political interdependence among world states. His new perspectives concerning both the domestic and the international context of the declaration demonstrate its importance in the formation of nations as the primary units in global politics. -- Steven Puro * Library Journal *[Armitage’s] core argument is fascinating and significant. * Publishers Weekly *In this brilliant work, Armitage not only illuminates the American founding but offers a provocative perspective on the modern world as a whole. There is nothing on the American Declaration that compares with this extraordinary book. -- Peter S. Onuf, author of Jefferson’s EmpireDavid Armitage’s fascinating and lucidly written book will establish itself as a key contribution to what is virtually a new field of study: the transnational history of ideas. -- Christopher Bayly, coauthor of Forgotten Armies and Forgotten WarsThis concise, readable book makes a powerful contribution to scholarship on the Declaration of Independence. From a global perspective, it seems, the document’s significance lies less in its second paragraph (‘all men are created equal’) than in its conclusion, where it declared independence. Armitage’s argument might provoke some opposition, but his evidence—ignored by previous scholars—needs to be taken very seriously. -- Pauline Maier, author of American ScriptureTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The World in the Declaration of Independence 2. The Declaration of Independence in the World 3. A World of Declarations Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisExamines Israel as a colonial society, making comparisons with South Africa, French Algeria and Australia.Trade Review'Veracini presents a thoughtful interpretation of the dynamics of colonialism, offering a clear framework within which to understand the Middle East crisis' -- The Middle East'This book portrays Israel as a settler society that can best be understood by comparing its development to apartheid South Africa, French Algeria and Australia' -- Middle East JournalTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION: COMPARING COLONIAL CONDITIONS 1. THE GEOGRAPHY OF UNILATERAL SEPARATION: ON ISRAELI APARTHEIDS a) Comparing Colonial Settler Projects b) The Bantustanisation of Palestinian Space c) The Racialisation of Palestinian Mobility 2. THE TROUBLE OF DECOLONIZATION: FRANCE/ALGERIA, ISRAEL/PALESTINE a) Comparing Wars of Decolonization b) Winning the Wars of Decolonization c) Narratives of the Wars of Decolonization 3. FOUNDING VIOLENCE AND SETTLER SOCIETY IN ISRAEL AND AUSTRALIA a) The ‘New’ Israeli History b) Australian History and Aboriginal History c) History Writing and Deadlocked Reconciliations CONCLUSION: IMPERIAL ENGAGEMENTS AND THE NEGOTIATION OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1956 sea area Heligoland became German Bight. But why did the North Sea island, which for nearly a century had demonstrated its loyalty to Britain, lose its identity? How had this once peaceful haven become, as Admiral Jacky Fisher exclaimed ''a dagger pointed at England''s heart''? Behind the renaming of Heligoland lies a catalogue of deceit, political ambition, blunder and daring. Heligoland came under British rule in the nineteenth century, a ''Gibraltar'' of the North Sea. Then, in 1890, despite the islanders'' wishes, Lord Salisbury announced his intention to swap it for Germany''s presence in Zanzibar. The Prime Minister''s decision unleashed a storm of controversy. Queen Victoria telegrammed from Balmoral to register her fury. During both world wars, it was used by Germany to control the North Sea, and RAF planes bombed the once-British territory. The story of Heligoland is more than an obscure footnote to the British Empire - it shows the significance of territory throughout history.

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating book shows how the later years of the British Empire were characterised by accidental oversights, irresponsible opportunism and uncertain pragmatismTrade ReviewIt won't please jingoists, but this unsparing account of the British Empire... exposes the dangerous folly of imperial pretensions -- Sally Cousins * Sunday Telegraph *Refreshing, original and well-researched ... "Britain knows best" arrogance is unmasked in chapter after chapter of this devastating book ... No one will understand the political situation in the world today who has not grasped the truths enshrined in Kwarteng's brilliant book -- A.N. Wilson * Evening Standard *Highly thought-provoking ... original, stimulating and insightful * Times Literary Supplement *A successful and convincing biography of the empire's ruling elites and their modern day legacies * Economist *Well-written, witty, but above all fair-minded, this is the best general overview of the British Empire to appear in years. Kwasi Kwarteng has emerged as a significant scholar on the historical scene * Andrew Roberts *I learned something new on virtually every page of this fine book * Michael Burleigh *Smart, witty and personable ... This is a book alive with wild and wonderful characters ... A cracking debut from a very accomplished historian * Daily Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisIn the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the Spanish-descended monarchy of the Two Sicilies. Over the next two decades, after wars led by Savoy/Piedmont and volunteers such as Garibaldi, an independent Kingdom of Italy emerged. These conflicts saw foreign interventions and shifting alliances among minor states, and attracted a variety of local and foreign volunteers. This second volume in a two part series covers the armies of the Papal States; the duchies of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena; the republics of Rome and San Marco (Venice) and the transitional Kingdom of Sicily; and the various volunteer movements. These varied armies and militias wore a wide variety of highly colorful uniforms which are brought to life in stunning, specially commissioned, full color artwork from Giuseppe Rava.Table of ContentsIntroduction: overview of 'Second War of Independence' (1859); Garibaldi's rising in the South (1860); events of 1861–66; and 'Third War of Independence' (1866–70)/ Chronology/ 1866 campaign: battle of Custoza, and naval clash off Lissa/ Conquest of Rome from Papal forces, 1870/ The Papal army, 1848–70: organization, uniforms, weapons, and tactical performance/ The minor states' armies, 1848–70: organization, uniforms, weapons and tactical performance of forces of Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Duchy of Parma and Duchy of Modena/ Patriots and volunteers: organization, uniforms, weapons and tactical performance of Italian patriots and foreign volunteers, 1848–70, particularly (1848–49) Roman Republic, San Marco Republic and Kingdom of Sicily, and (1848–61), Garibaldi's Redshirts and others/ Select Bibliography/ Plate Commentaries.

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Book SynopsisThis Library of America volume, along with its companion, presents, for the first time in compact form, all seven titles of Francis Parkman’s monumental account of France and England’s imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Deservedly compared as a literary achievement to Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Parkman’s accomplishment is hardly less awesome than the explorations and adventures he so vividly describes.Pioneers of France in the New World (1865) begins with the early and tragic settlement of the French Huguenots in Florida, then shifts to the northern reaches of the continent and follows the expeditions of Samuel de Champlain up the St. Lawrence River and into the Great Lakes as he mapped the wilderness, organized the fur trade, promoted Christianity among the natives, and waged a savage forest campaign against the Iroquois.The Jesuits in North America in the Seve

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Book SynopsisThis text challenges stereotypes of Hawaiians and explores the wrongs perpetrated upon the native peoples. It includes material that builds on issues raised in the first edition and situates the essays in the contemporary native Hawaiian rights discussion.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A compelling historical reconstruction…. [A]n analysis distinguished by its utter respect for the specificity of historical experience."—Irene Grendzier,The Nation"Mahmood Mamdani's powerful new volume challenges the established wisdom of Africanists concerning the European colonial impact on Africa and Africa's postcolonial settlement…. [I]mpressive."—Robert L. Tignor,American Historical Review"This book explores a provocative and original thesis about African politics, with the vigor and rigor that readers of Professor Mamdani's earlier work will expect. Anyone who cares to understand the state in contemporary Africa—anyone who wants to understand the current situation on the continent at all—would do well to read this new book. Whether you agree or disagree, this is a book to learn from."—Kwame Anthony Appiah"Mahmood Mamdani is one of the most original thinkers writing about Africa today. His skills in comparative analysis and conceptual refinement are strikingly illustrated in this volume."—Ali A. Mazrui, Institute for Global Studies, SUNY–Binghamton"Citizen and Subjectis going to be a verynecessarybook. Mamdani's exposition, of a rare clarity, offers us a broadness of vision based upon experience and knowledge always informed by his profound perceptiveness."—Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer

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Book SynopsisThe independence movements of Spanish America in the early nineteenth century constitute one of the main junctures in Latin American history. Not only did they put an end to Spanish colonialism in mainland America, they created the modern countries stretching from Mexico in the north to Chile and Argentina in the south. Spanish American Independence Movements sheds light on the complicated period from 1780-81, when Peru was rocked by Túpac Amaru's revolt, through 1826, when independence fighters defeated the last Spanish forces in mainland America. Author Wim Klooster offers a rich and wide-ranging introduction to the period and provides primary documents-most appearing in English for the first time-that reveal not just the arguments and struggles of the rebels but also of those who remained loyal to Spain.Trade Review"The independence movements of Spanish America in the early nineteenth century constitute one of the main junctures in Latin American history. Not only did they put an end to Spanish colonialism in mainland America, they created the modern countries stretching from Mexico in the north to Chile and Argentina in the south. Spanish American Independence Movements sheds light on the complicated period from 1780-81, when Peru was rocked by Túpac Amaru’s revolt, through 1826, when independence fighters defeated the last Spanish forces in mainland America. Editor Wim Klooster offers a rich and wide-ranging introduction to the period and provides primary documents—many appearing in English for the first time—that reveal not just the arguments and struggles of the rebels but also of those who remained loyal to Spain."- Wim Klooster is Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Chair in History and International Relations at Clark University. He is the author of Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History and co-editor of The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration, and Imagination.Table of Contents Alternate Table of Contents: Documents Separated by RegionIntroduction Background: Ethnicity, Culture, and Power in the Spanish Territories Early Revolts and Rebellions The French Revolution and Spanish America Napoleon’s Invasion of Spain and the Imperial Crisis The Road to a Constitution The Constitution of Cádiz Revolts in New Spain Creole Ascension in the Río de la Plata South America’s Southern Theater New Granada: South America’s Northern Theater The Perils of Self-Governance Fernando’s Return Bolívar’s Success Peru and San Martín’s Achievement South America’s Final Battles Mexican Independence Central America Political Renewal Social Changes Chronology Questions to Consider PART 1: PRELUDE 1. Doña Micaela Bastidas to Messrs. Governors Don Baltasar Cárdenas, Don Tomás Enríquez, and Don Mariano Flores, Tungasuca, 15 December 1780 2. Interrogation of José Ortiz, Medellín (New Granada), 21 December 1781 3. Silvestre García, royal councilor, to [Governor Luis de Las Casas], Havana, 9 February 1795 PART 2: IMPERIAL CRISIS 4. Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán, Letter to the American Spaniards, Philadelphia, 1799 5. Napoleon to Joachim Murat, lieutenant general of the Kingdom of Spain, Bayonne, 11, 21, and 26 May 1808 6. Salvador José de Muro y Salazar, Marquis of Someruelos, Proclamation to the Inhabitants of Cuba, Havana, 17 July 1808 7. Memorandum of grievances (Memorial de Agravios), cabildo of Bogotá, 20 November 1809 8. The Superior Junta of Cádiz to Spanish America, 28 February 1810 9. The Governing Junta of Caracas to the Constituted Authorities of All Towns of Venezuela, 1810 10. El Diario Político de Santafé de Bogotá, 18 September 1810 PART 3: INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS TAKE OFF 11. Edict of Manuel Abad y Queipo, bishop of Michoacán, Valladolid (Mexico), 24 September 1810 12. Juan Bautista Díaz Calvillo, Discourse about the Ills that Disunity between Overseas and American Spaniards Can Cause 13. Miguel Hidalgo, Proclamation to the American Nation, Guadalajara, 21 November 1810 14. Statement by the Royal Trade Guild of Mexico against American free trade, Mexico City, 16 July 1811 15. Manifesto for the World by the Federation of Venezuela, Caracas, 30 July 1811 16. Speech by José Miguel Guridi y Alcocer, deputy of Tlaxcala (Mexico), in the Cortes of Cádiz, 4 September 1811 17. Act of Independence, Cartagena de Indias, 11 November 1811 18. Manuel Ignacio González del Campillo, bishop of Puebla, to José Maria Morelos, Puebla, 14 November 1811 19. Robert Semple, Sketch of the Present State of Caracas; Including a Journey from Caracas through La Victoria to Puerto Cabello, 1812 20. Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, Promulgated in Cádiz on 19 March 1812 21. Interrogation and punishment of Francisco Cudina, April–August 1812 22. El Grito del Sud [Buenos Aires], 21 July 1812 23. George Dawson Flinter, A History of the Revolution of Caracas: Comprising an Impartial Narrative of the Atrocities Committed by the Contending Parties, Illustrating the Real State of the Contest, Both in a Commercial and Political Point of View, 1813–14 24. José de Bustamante, governor and captain-general of Guatemala, to the Council of Regency, Guatemala, 3 March 1813 25. Manifesto for the Mexican People by the Representatives of the Provinces of North America, Chilpancingo, 6 November 1813 26. J.P. Robertson and W.P. Robertson, Four Years in Paraguay: Comprising an Account of That Republic under the Government of the Dictator Francia, ca. 1814–15 27. Manuel Belgrano to José de San Martín, Santiago del Estero, 6 April 1814 28. José Miguel Carrera, Proclamation by the Restorative Army to Its Brothers in Concepción, 1814 PART 4: FERNANDO’S RESTORATION, CONTINUED WARFARE, AND INDEPENDENCE 29. José Hipólito Unanue, To the King, Our Lord. The Thinker of Peru, 1815 30. Simón Bolívar, letter from Jamaica, 6 September 1815 31. Rafael Sevilla, Memories of an Officer in the Spanish Army: Campaigns against Bolívar and the American Separatists, 1815 32. Simón Bolívar, decree regarding the emancipation of enslaved people, Carúpano, Venezuela, 2 June 1816 33. Brigadier Francisco Tomás Morales to Pablo Morillo, Ocumare, 15 July 1816 34. Proclamation by Javier Mina, Explaining the Motives for His Expedition, Galveston, 22 February 1817 35. British Foreign Office, “Confidential Memorandum” 36. Bernardo O’Higgins to José de San Martín, Concepción, 30 July 1817 37. H.M. Brackenridge, Voyage to South America, Performed by Order of the American Government, in the Years 1817 and 1818, in the Frigate Congress 38. Decree issued by Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago de Chile, 3 June 1818 39. Pablo Morillo to Spain’s Ministry of War, Montalbán, 4 July 1818 40. Pablo Morillo to Spain’s Minister of War, Caracas, 20 September 1818 41. Nicolás Cabrera to the militia of free blacks and mulattoes, Buenos Aires, 16 February 1819 PART 5: IMPERIAL DEFEAT AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REGIMES 42. J.R. Rengger and M. Longchamp, Historical Essay on the Revolution of Paraguay and the Dictatorial Government of Dr. Francia. Part of the Voyage to Paraguay, 1819 43. Testimony of Juan José García before Antonio Fominaya, governor of Socorro, Socorro (New Granada), 12 March 1819 44. J.P. Robertson and W.P. Robertson, Letters on South America; Comprising Travels on the Paraná and Rio de La Plata, 1819–20 45. Richard Longfield Vowell, Campaigns and Cruises, in Venezuela and New Grenada, and in the Pacific Ocean; from 1817–1830 46. Law adopted by Colombia to confiscate the possessions of Spaniards, 1821 47. Lionel Hervey to the Marquis of Londonderry, Madrid, 27 May 1822 48. Basil Hall, Extracts from a Journal, Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822 49. Francisco María Roca, Friend of the Country or Essays about the Happiness of This Province, 1822 50. Antonio José de Sucre to Simón Bolívar, Yungay, Peru, 25 February 1824 51. Manuel Antonio López, Historical Memories of Colonel Manuel Antonio López, Deputy to the General Staff of the Liberating Army: Colombia and Peru, 1819–1826 52. Gaceta del Gobierno de Lima, 1 January 1825 53. Law issued by Peru’s Governing Council, forcing enslaved people to return to work, Gaceta del Gobierno de Lima, 22 September 1825 54. Constitution of Bolivia, 22 November 1826 Glossary Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn inspiring reminder of the great strength of twentieth century Communism in the Global South.Trade Review'This is the real story of the Russian Revolution and no one tells it more powerfully, poetically, and honestly than Vijay Prashad' -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination''An original and much needed analysis of an important but neglected aspect of the legacy of the Russian Revolution. Prashad insightfully explains how Lenin's development of Marxist theory has inspired revolutionary practice in the Third World. Essential reading' -- Mary Davis, Marx Memorial Library'An almost perfect mix of history and analysis in this slender book ... packs a revolutionary punch' -- Ron Jacobs, CounterPunchTable of ContentsPreface 1. Eastern Graves 2. Red October 3. Follow the Path of the Russians! 4. The Lungs of Russia! 5. Peasant Soviets 6. Soviet Asia 7. Enemy of Imperialism 8. Eastern Marxism 9. To See the Dawn 10. Colonial Fascism 11. Polycentric Communism 12. Memories of Communism

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Book Synopsis''Important . . . powerful . . . . an explanation of why Black protest is such a dangerous prospect to the white power structure'' Kehinde Andrews, GuardianWhere is the path to racial justice? In this ground-breaking book, philosopher Lewis R. Gordon ranges over history, art and pop culture - from ancient African languages to the film Get Out - to show why the answer lies not just in freeing Black bodies from the fraud of white supremacy, but in freeing all of our minds. Building on the influential work of Frantz Fanon and W. E. B. Du Bois, Fear of Black Consciousness is a vital contribution to our conversations on racial politics, identity and culture. ''Expansive . . . reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation'' Angela Y. Davis Trade ReviewLewis Gordon's expansive philosophical engagement with the current moment - its histories and globalities, its politics and protests, its visual and sonic cultures - reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation -- Angela Y. Davis * author of Women, Race and Class *Powerful . . . one of the most prominent scholars of racism, tries to enrich our knowledge with his unique brand of intellectual precision and analysis -- Kehinde Andrews * Observer *Gordon's surprising observations crack open the mind to connect various creative disciplines -- Vanessa Willoughby * Literary Hub *Reading Fear of Black Consciousness had me nodding so often and so vigorously, I got a mild case of whiplash . . . With surgical precision, laser sharp wit, and the eye of an artist, Lewis Gordon doesn't just dissect race, racism, and racial thinking but offers a clarion call to embrace Black Consciousness, to take political responsibility for decolonizing and transforming the world as it is -- Robin D G Kelley * author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original *A thinker whose reflections on race have produced singular illuminations on our times . . . he draws on a wide range of colonial histories, African popular culture, aboriginal histories, contemporary films and stories, to show the critical powers of creativity in dismantling racism by the making of Black consciousness, the making of a world where breath and love and existence become possible -- Judith Butler * author of Gender Trouble *Striking... You will want Lewis Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness among your primary intellectual road supplies for the future -- Hortense Spillers * author of Black, White and in Color *As atrocity, injury, white supremacy, and racial violence loom, Gordon holds steady a Fanonian outlook, theorizing black consciousness as the realization of possibility - that is, a sustained political commitment that recalculates the stakes of freedom -- Katherine McKittrick * author of Demonic Grounds *A resolute response to the ongoing pessimism . . . Gordon seamlessly weaves together discussions of contemporary and historical Western philosophers such as Gabriel Marcel and Friedrich Nietzsche with his analyses of film, music, culture, and more . . . Sprinkled with personal stories, witty anecdotes, and powerful arguments, the book encourages readers to rethink historical descriptions of anti-black violence as well as the vocabulary used to talk about race and racism today. -- Edward O'Byrn * The Philosophical Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisCharts the incredible rise of South Korea, from colonisation and civil war to today’s thriving nation. South Korea has a remarkable history. Born from the ashes of imperial domination, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real doubts about its survival as an independent state. Yet South Korea endures: today it is a boisterous democracy, a vibrant market economy, a tech powerhouse, and home to the coolest of cultures. In just seventy years, this society has grown from a shrimp into a whale. What explains this extraordinary transformation? For some, it was individual South Koreans who fought to change their country, and still strive to shape it. For others, it was forward-looking political and business leaders with a vision. Either way, it’s clear that this is the story of a people who dreamt big, and whose dreams came true. Shrimp to Whale is a lively history of South Korea, from its millennia-old roots, through the division of the Peninsula, dictatorship and economic growth, to today’s global powerhouse.Trade Review‘[Shrimp to Whale] captures South Korea’s triumphant postwar ascent from abject poverty and trauma.’ -- The Guardian

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Book SynopsisSituates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political thinkers within the global history of ideas, showing how their systems of knowledge and interpretation took centre stage in the Age of Revolutions.Trade Review[A] magisterial recounting of Haiti's intellectual history . . . . The book is the latest in Daut's constellation of works on the Caribbean intellectual tradition, and Daut is herself one of the most dynamic contemporary voices on Haiti."—Laurent Dubois, Los Angeles Review of Books

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Book SynopsisNina Möntmann's timely book extends the decolonisation debate to the institutions of contemporary art. In a thoughtfully articulated text, illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice, she argues that to play a crucial role within increasingly diverse societies museums and galleries of contemporary art have a responsibility to 'decentre' their institutions, removing from their collections, exhibition policies and infrastructures a deeply embedded Euro-centric cultural focus with roots in the history of colonialism. In this, she argues, they can learn from the example both of anthropological museums (such as the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne), which are engaged in debates about the colonial histories of their collections, about trauma and repair, and of small-scale art spaces (such as La Colonie, Paris, ANO, Institute of Arts and Knowledge, Accra or Savvy Contemporary, Berlin), which have the flexibility, based on informal infrastructures, to initiate different kinds of conversation and collective knowledge production in collaboration with indigenous or local diasporic communities from the Global South. For the first time, this book identifies the influence that anthropological museums and small art spaces can exert on museums of contemporary art to initiate a process of decentring.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction: Why Decentre Museums, and Why Now?; 1 The Colonial Dilemma of the Modern Museum; 2 Central Theoretical Concepts: From Decolonising to Decentring; 3 Repairing the Anthropological Museum; 4 Decolonial Sensibilities and Decentring Practices of Small-Scale Art Organisations; 5 The Contemporary Art Museum: Between the Anthropological Museum and Small Art Spaces; Epilogue: Decentred Museums as Infrastructures of People; Further Reading; Index

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Book SynopsisThe Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy’s The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present further analysis of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine’s relations with Russia and the West, the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of Chernobyl, and Ukraine’s contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.Trade ReviewExceptionally illuminating for the current moment…What emerges from some of these essays…is a powerful sense that Putin’s wantonly destructive delusions and machinations have had the unintended effect of helping to consolidate Ukraine as the unified and distinctive nation whose existence he flatly denies. -- Larry Wolff * Times Literary Supplement *This collection is an excellent overview of some of the historical undercurrents which diffused the Ukrainian narrative—from west to east—across Ukraine’s Russified central and southeast oblasts over the past twenty years. Most importantly, these essays shed light on why the overwhelming majority of Ukraine’s citizens adopted this narrative and why they still defiantly resist returning to Russia’s colonial orbit. -- George O. Liber * Russian Review *

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Book Synopsis"One of those rare, transformative novels" KARIM MISKE"Funny and poignant" TIFFANY TSAO, author of The MajestiesInitially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile.The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies do not shoplift.Babies adore the security guard. Perhaps because he does not drag babies to the sales.The 1960s - Ferdinand arrives in Paris from Côte d'Ivoire, ready to take on the world and become a big somebody.The 1990s - It is the Golden Age of immigration, and Ossiri and Kassoum navigate a Paris on the brink of momentous change.The 2010s - In a Sephora on the Champs-Élysées, the all-seeing eyes of a security guard observes the habits of those who come to worship at this church to consumerism.Amidst the political bickering of the inhabitants of the Residence for Students from Côte d'Ivoire and the ever-changing landscape of French immigration policy, Ferdinand, Ossiri and Kassoum, two generations of Ivoirians, attempt to make their way as undocumented workers, taking shifts as security at a flour mill.Sharply satirical, political and poignant, Standing Heavy is a searingly witty deconstruction of colonial legacies and capitalist consumption, an unprecedented and unforgettable account of everything that passes under a security guard's gaze.Translated from the French by Frank Wynne"Inventive and very funny" Guardian"A compact, humane satire" Financial TimesTrade ReviewBeautifully written from the point of view of a Black, Marxist security guard, Standing Heavy is one of those rare, transformative novels. Beware: it might make your next shopping trip somewhat trickier -- KARIM MISKEA funny and poignant intergenerational tale of three Ivoirian men newly arrived in Paris. And a sharp social and political commentary, delivered via the sharp eyes of the black security guards that white Paris relies on to keep itself safe. -- TIFFANY TSAO * author of The Majesties and translator of International Booker-longlisted Happy Stories, Mostly *Dura lex sed... dura! The harsh standing life of an immigrant. A pataphysical ethnography of the consumer society written by an undocumented anthropologist with an exemplary critical humour -- ALBERTO PRUNETTI * author of Down and Out in England and Italy *This inventive and very funny debut novel offers a whistle-stop, whizz-bang tour of Franco-African history * Guardian *This compact, humane satire, deftly translated by Frank Wynne, entertains as much as it informs. -- Lucy Popescu * Financial Times *I ended up laughing out loud * Huffington Post *Gauz castigates the excesses of our society with a humorous first novel in which political satire takes on airs of a poetry slam * Stylist (France) *Brutal, fierce and often awkward, this little book will feel like a body search * Lire *An alert, offbeat and indispensable book * La Nouvelle Vie Ouvrière *A cunning observer and a disenchanted protestor, Gauz makes shopping an ethnological mine, a priceless sketch and a combat sport * Elle *What an eye! Gauz saw everything, observed everything, analysed everything during his experiences as a security guard. He takes a dive in time and into the territory of the Ivorians of Paris. The whole French immigration policy emerges through this book . . . Fresh and witty * L'Express *A powerful book * Huma *Full of hilarious observations * Le Figaro *A formidable keenness of observation and a sarcastic wit * La Croix *A tender and ironic look at our consumer society * Marie-France *Gauz honours the sufferings, pitfalls and joys of the African community in Paris, by painting a grotesque portrait of our consumer society * Pèlerin *Gauz casts a tender, yet lucid gaze on the African community. By devoting a book to the shadowy men of security, Gauz finally gives voice and life to those who, oddly enough, are invisible * Le Matricule des Anges *Under the guise of fun, the author shows the pathos of the buying fever in the West, mixing the madness of the sales with the history of Ivorians in Paris * Nouvel Observateur *No-one is spared in this biting, satirical account of cosmopolitan life -- Conrad Landin * New Internationalist *

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Book SynopsisPrior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre developed during the years that he was studying medicine, and in 1949 he wrote the plays The Drowning Eye (L'Œil se noie), and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles). This first English translation of the works gives us a Fanon at his most lyrical, experimental and provocative.Table of ContentsFrantz Fanon: Works Cited General Introduction, by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young Fanon, Revolutionary Playwright, by Robert J.C. Young 1 The Drowning Eye 2 Parallel Hands Frantz Fanon’s Library and Life Franz Fanon’s Library Key dates of Fanon’s chronology Index

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Book SynopsisFrantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles and notes published in this volume cover the most politically active period of his life and encapsulate the breadth, depth and urgency of his writings. In particular, they clarify and amplify his much-debated views on violent resistance. These works provide new complexity to our understanding of Fanon and reveal just how relevant his thinking is to the contemporary world and how important his ideas are to changing it.Trade ReviewFanon’s writings, some of the most intense political writing of the century, reflect the turmoil of his moment and seek a way out through a series of provisional and historically specific solutions … What The Political Writings shows is the range of problems and solutions faced by one of the great leftists of the 20th century. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsPlates Frantz Fanon: Works Cited General Introduction, by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young Introduction 1. The demoralized Foreign Legion 2. Algeria’s independence: An everyday reality 3. National independence: The only possible outcome 4. Algeria and the French crisis 5. The Algerian conflict and African anticolonialism 6. A democratic revolution 7. Once again: The reason for the precondition 8. Algerian revolutionary consciousness 9. In the Caribbean, birth of a nation? 10. The strategy of an army with its back to the wall 11. The survivors of no man’s land 12. Testament of a ‘man of the left’ 13. Ultracolonialism’s rationale 14. The western world and the fascist experience in France 15. Gaulist illusions 16. The calvary of a people 17. The rising anti-imperialist movement and the slow-wits of pacification 18. African countries and their solidary combat 19. Richard Wright’s White Man, Listen! 20. At Conakry, he declares: ‘Global peace goes via national independence’ 21. Africa accuses the west 22. Why we use violence 23. The stooges of imperialism 24. Letter to Ali Shariati Publishing Fanon (France and Italy, 1959-1971) Frantz Fanon’s Library and Life Franz Fanon’s Library Key dates of Fanon’s chronology Index

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