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Oxford University Press, USA To Try Her Fortune in London Australian Women Colonialism and Modernity
Book Synopsis'To Try Her Fortune in London' considers white colonials as part of the colonial presence at the heart of the empire. Between 1870 and 1940 tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London. This title explores previously unexamined connections between whiteness, colonial status, gender, and modernity.Trade ReviewWoollacott's comprehensive study provides rich evidence that a newfound freedom and mobility allowed ambitious Australian women to have an influence in London disproportionate to their number, and this work will prove an influential contribution to our understanding of London, imperialism and the Australian abroad. * Urban History *This book is an important contribution to a growing literature on the international dimensions of the Australian women's movement, as well as the recent interest in relationships within the British Empire/Commonwealth. * American Historical Review *
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Oxford University Press Political Theories of Decolonization
Book SynopsisRecent scholarship in political theory has focused on the treatment of colonialism in the writings of canonical thinkers such as Locke, Burke, Mill, Diderot, Tocqueville, Smith, and Kant, revealing the extent to which the subject of colonialism and imperialism dominated the minds of great thinkers as the colonial project took place. While such scholarship provides fascinating insight into the possible problems of enlightenment thought, it tends to ignore the voices of thinkers who spoke from the position of the colonized. Political Theories of Decolonization will fill a gap in postcolonial political critique by serving as an introduction to theorists who struggled with the question of how to found a new political order when the existing ideas and institutions were implicated in a history of domination. Looking at the writings of Gandhi, Ngugi, al-Afghani, and Mariategui, among several others, the authors aim to explain how the work of these thinkers engage in thematic continuities--conTrade ReviewOutstanding Academic Titles 2012, as selected by CHOICE Magazine (December 2012). * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction: Political Theory and Decolonization ; Chapter One Postcolonial Political Theory and the Problem of Foundations ; Chapter Two Islamic Political Thought and Imperialism ; Chapter Three Grounds of Resistance: Land as Revolutionary Foundation ; Chapter Four Self-Determination Reconsidered: Revolutions of Decolonization and Postcolonial Citizenship ; Chapter Five Colonialism and the State of Exception ; Chapter Six The Philosophy of Liberation ; Conclusion: Gandhi and the Critique of Western Civilization
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OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, ''The Imperial Past'', ''The Colonial Present'', ''Theory and Practice'', ''Across the Disciplines'', and ''Across the World''. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past, in its multiple manifestations, and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested Trade ReviewThe book is an important update on the current state of discussion in the field. * Dobrota Pucherova, Journal of Postcolonial Writing *the book is bound to inspire postcolonial scholars to address in creative ways some of the important questions that face us now. * Christine Lorre-Johnston, Commonwealth Essays and Studies *Table of ContentsSECTION ONE: THE IMPERIAL PAST; SECTION TWO: THE COLONIAL PRESENT; SECTION THREE: THEORY AND PRACTICE; SECTION FOUR: ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES; SECTION FIVE: ACROSS THE WORLD
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Oxford University Press Making Ireland British 15801650
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive study of all the plantations that were attempted in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. It examines the arguments advanced by successive political figures for a plantation policy, and the responses which this policy elicited from different segments of the population in Ireland. The book opens with an analysis of the complete works of Edmund Spenser who was the most articulate ideologue for plantation. The author argues that all subsequent advocates of plantation, ranging from King James VI and I, to Strafford, to Oliver Cromwell, were guided by Spenser''s opinions, and that discrepancies between plantation in theory and practice were measured against this yardstick. The book culminates with a close analysis of the 1641 insurrection throughout Ireland, which, it is argued, steeled Cromwell to engage in one last effort to make Ireland British.Trade Review... for many years it will be compulsory reading for anyone wishing to understand English colonial policy and its impact on native society. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *Canny's knowledge of literary as well as official sources is exemplary. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *No other work reveals so much about the transformation of life across the island through the remorseless colonial process that began in Elizabethan times. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *Let there be no mistake: Making Ireland British is an extraordinary book, a major feat of scholarship, and probably the single most important study of early modern Ireland to appear for a generation or more. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *wonderful work, richly layered and contextualised ... a masterly study and an unmitigated triumph ... a masterpiece of painstaking research ... [a] splendid volume. * History Today *Table of Contents1. Spenser Sets the Agenda ; 2. The English Presence in Spenser's Ireland ; 3. The Munster Plantation: Theory and Practice ; 4. Plantation in Ireland 1603-1622: Theory and Practice ; 5. The Politics of Plantation 1622-1641 ; 6. The British Presence in Wentworth's Ireland ; 7. Plantation and Politics: The Irish Response ; 8. The Irish Insurrection of 1641
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Oxford University Press Africanizing Democracies 1980Present African World Histories
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Political Democratization ; Chapter 2: Africa and the Global Economy ; Chapter 3: Modernity and Tradition ; Chapter 4: Health, Healing and Cultural Autonomy ; Chapter 5: Sexuality, Gender and Human Rights ; Chapter 6: African Security in a Post-9/11 World
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Yale University Press Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana
Book SynopsisThis study tells the story of an incident of ritual murder that occurred in Ghana in 1943. It provides insights into law and politics in the colonial Gold Coast, the clash between traditional and modern values, and the nature of African monarchy in the colonial period.
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Yale University Press African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective Paper
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive study, a specialist and scholar of African affairs argues that the current crisis in African development can be traced directly to European colonial rule, which left the continent with a "singularly difficult legacy", unique in modern history.Table of Contents"Bula Matari" and the contemporary African crisis; on the state; the nature and genesis of the colonial state; constructing "Bula Matari"; the colonial state institutionalized; toward African independence; the ambiguous challenge of civil society; the imperial legacy and state traditions; the afterlife of the African colonial state - comparative reflections.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gendered Colonialisms in African History
Book SynopsisFocusing on African and European women and men, five articles explore generational conflict, connections between representation and violence, the incorporation of gendered power into state formation, memory and forgetting, and consumption and commodity cultures.Trade Review"These new works are likely to influence future research aimed at disentangling the complicated local and metropolitan interactions that gendered so many facets of colonial experiences in Africa and elsewhere." American Historical Review.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Arizona, USA). 1. Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself): The Gender and Generational Politics of the 1956 Ban on Clitoridectomy in Meru, Kenya: Lynn M. Thomas (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA). 2. "Cocky" Hahn and the "Black Venus": The Making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, 1915-46: Patricia Hayes (University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Zimbabwe). 3. "Not Welfare or Uplift Work": White Women, Masculinity and Policing in South Africa: Keith Shear (Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and South Africa). 4. Love Magic and Political Morality in Central Madagascar, 1875-1990: David Graeber (University of Chicago, USA). 5. "Fork Up and Smile": Marketing, Colonial Knowledge and the Female Subject in Zimbabwe: Timothy Burke (Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, USA).
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Pluto Press Reclaiming the Nation The Return of the National Question in Africa Asia and Latin America
Book SynopsisCompares the trajectories of states and societies in Africa, Asia and Latin America under neoliberalism.Trade Review'This book is about the new nationalist resurgence [against neo-liberalism]. It is the work of a committed and engaged scholarship, one which does not pretend to be neutral in the struggle between imperialism and the working people' -- Issa Shivji, Mwalimu Nyerere University Professor, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania'Provides essential clues to understand the present nature of the state in the periphery and to re-connect the South through all its dimensions' -- Gladys Lechini, Professor of International Relations, National University of Rosario, Argentina'Provides a holistic and systematic investigation of the relevance of the National Question in the contemporary South. It is one of the finest collections to engage with the relevant issues at the current juncture' -- Praveen Jha, Centre for Economics Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, IndiaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Fall and Rise of the National Question, by Sam Moyo & Paris Yeros Part I: Africa 2. Rethinking Pan-Africanism, Nationalism and the New Regionalism, by Thandika Mkandawire 3. Nation-Building and State Fracture in Sudan, by Mahmood Mamdani 4. After Zimbabwe: State, Nation and Region in Africa, by Sam Moyo & Paris Yeros Part II: Asia 5. Peripheral States in Asia under Neoliberalism and After, by Korkut Boratav 6. The National Question in India, by Sandeep Chachra 7. The Palestinian National Question: Settler-Colonialism and the International Power Regime, by Jamil Hilal 8. The National Question and the Unfinished Revolution in Nepal, by Hari Roka 9. Neoliberalism in Turkey, by Cem Somel Part III: Latin America 10. Latin American Thinking on the State and Development: From Statelessness to Statelessness, by Atilio A. Boron 11. The National Question and the Autonomy of the State in Bolivia, by Lorgio Orellana Aillon 12. Kirchner’s Argentina: In Search of a New International Presence, by Javier A. Vadell 13. State and Nation in Brazil: Old Questions, New Challenges, by Sebastião C. Velasco e Cruz & Reginaldo C. Moraes 14. Cleavages in South America and the Role of Venezuela, by Rafael Villa 15. National States: Which Way Forward?, by Samir Amin Notes on Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Berbers of Morocco
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The End of Empire in the Gulf
Book SynopsisTancred Bradshaw received his PhD in 2004 from SOAS, University of London and has since taught at Birkbeck College, London City University and Florida State University. He currently works as an independent historian and regional consultant. He has previously published The Glubb Reports (2015) and Britain and Jordan (I.B.Tauris, 2012), as well as numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Benign Neglect: the Government of India and the Trucial States, c. 1800-1947 Chapter 2: The Neo-Raj: British Policy in the Trucial States during the 1950s Chapter 3: The Conservative Government and the Trucial States, 1960-1964: the Consolidation of British Influence Chapter 4: Responsibility Without Power: The Vicissitudes of British policy in the Trucial States, 1964-1967 Chapter 5: The Withdrawal from the Gulf: All Politics and No Strategy Chapter 6: Epilogue Conclusion Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Fish Law and Colonialism
Book SynopsisAn engrossing history, Fish, Law, and Colonialism recounts the human conflict over fish and fishing in British Columbia and of how that conflict was shaped by law. Pacific salmon fisheries, owned and managed by Aboriginal peoples, were transformed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by commercial and sport fisheries backed by the Canadian state and its law. Through detailed case studies of the conflicts over fish weirs on the Cowichan and Babine rivers, Douglas Harris describes the evolving legal apparatus that dispossessed Aboriginal peoples of their fisheries. Building upon themes developed in literatures on state law and local custom, and law and colonialism, he examines the contested nature of the colonial encounter on the scale of a river. In doing so, Harris reveals the many divisions both within and between government departments, local settler societies, and Aboriginal communities.Drawing on government records, statute books, case reportTrade ReviewFish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia,by Douglas C. Harris, is a work of substantial empirical rigor and broad theoretical importance. -- Jeffery R. Dudas Law & Social Inquiry
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