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Book Synopsis Before Washington, before Jefferson, before Franklin or John Adams, there was Lee--Richard Henry Lee, the First Founding FatherRichard Henry Lee was first to call for independence, first to call for union, and first to call for a bill of rights to protect Americans against government tyranny. A towering figure in America''s Revolutionary War, Lee was as much the father of our country as George Washington, for it was Lee who secured the political and diplomatic victories that ensured Washington''s military victories. Lee was critical in holding Congress together at a time when many members sought to surrender or flee the approach of British troops. Risking death on the gallows for defying British rule, Lee charged into battle himself to prevent British landings along the Virginia coast--despite losing most of his left hand in an explosion.A stirring, action-packed biography, First Founding Father will startle most Americans with the revelation that many historians have ignored for more than two centuries: Richard Henry Lee, not Thomas Jefferson, was the author of America''s original Declaration of Independence.

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Book SynopsisFrantz Fanon was one of the twentieth-century''s most influential theorists and activists, whose work fighting against colonialism and imperialism has been an inspiration to today''s decolonization and anti-racism movements. As the author of essential texts such as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks, his impact on today''s activists - from Rhodes Must Fall to Black Lives Matter - is indelible. Leo Zeilig here details the fascinating life of Fanon - from his upbringing in Martinique to his wartime experiences and work in Europe and North Africa - and frames his ideas and activism within the greater context of his career as a practising psychiatrist and his politically tumultuous surroundings. The book covers the period of the Algerian War of Independence, national liberation and what Fanon described as ''the curse of independence''. Highlighting Fanon''s role as the most influential theorist of anti-colonialism and racial liberation, this book is an esseTrade ReviewNo revolutionary is born ready," Leo Zeilig states in his introduction to Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution, and in this smoothly written biography, he proceeds to provide an insight into the complexities that made up this remarkable thinker... In today's world, where the Black Lives Matter movement highlights the disillusionment of a people who were once so excited about a black president, and where the endless war on terrorism can resemble the kind of self-serving and arbitrary exercising of power conducted by colonising states, his ideas are as relevant as ever. -- Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi * The Independent *The work of Fanon is of extreme relevance today – with regard to racism, classism, terrorism and on social revolutionary movements... A must read! * Brownbrainyandbeautiful.com *Essential reading for those interested in the roots of modern anti-racism and decolonization movements, as the author highlights Fanon's role as the most influential theorist in the struggle against colonialism and for freedom from racism. * Al Akhbar (Bloomsbury Translation) *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. War and Psychiatry 3. Towards the Revolution 4. The Wretched of the Earth 5. Death 6. Legacy

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Book SynopsisAccessible, engrossing biography; compellingly tells the history of the Middle East from WWI to the 1948 Palestine War through the life of one of the most influential Arabs of the century. Essential reading for those with an interest in the history of British Imperialism, Palestine and the Arab struggle for independence.Trade Review'In this remarkable study, Laila Parsons provides an essential corrective... She succeeds admirably in her stated aim: to portray, "through a detailed description of one individual, the historical landscape of the early-twentieth-century Arab Middle East".' The Times; 'An outstanding book that tells the history of the Middle East from the First World War to the 1948 Palestine War through the life of one of the most influential Arabs of the twentieth century. Fawzi al-Quwuqju should be a household name for his role in the Arab world's failed struggles against European imperialism and Zionism. In this fascinating political biography, Laila Parsons restores Qawuqji to his rightful place and has produced one of the most important new works in modern Middle Eastern history.' Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs and The Fall of the Ottomans; 'There has never been a better, more vivid retelling of the struggles, hopes, and bitter disappointments of the Arab East after the end of the Ottoman Empire than Laila Parsons's The Commander. After nearly a century, readers can finally see the post-Ottoman world through the eyes of those who fought mightily to shape it. The book is a triumph of the historian's craft.' Michael Provence, University of California, San Diego; 'An indispensable account of the career of a remarkable Arab military leader whose life involved participation in most of the Middle East's major twentieth-century battles.' Roger Owen, Harvard University; 'With great skill and impressive scholarship, Laila Parsons succeeds admirably in bringing to life the hopes, struggles, and disappointments not only of al-Qawuqji but of many of his contemporaries.' Charles Tripp, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; 'Laila Parsons's excellent new book combines a rare command of published memoirs with a novel interpretive reading of private papers in mostly unused archives. It tells us the unique story of one individual, but also the story of a people and a region. The Commander gives an important place to narrative and storytelling without sacrificing depth of analysis and interpretation. It is also quite remarkable in conveying the views not only of powerful colonial overlords but of the Arab populations they ruled.' Leila Fawaz, Tufts University; 'Written in a fluent and compelling style, The Commander is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand both the tortuous history and the current tragedy of today's Middle East.' Carne Ross, author of The Leaderless Revolution; 'With a subject so inspiring and provocative, The Commander never fails to interest. This is a fascinating biography and Parsons chose well not only in selecting a subject who authored a memoir and wrote many letters and diaries, but one who wrote so well... Parsons's own writing style is similarly light and pacy, as persuasive as it is measured... The Commander is a book as much for the lay reader as for the historian of Palestine. It can be read cover to cover as a well-told story of an adventurous life, with battles fought and visions formed and lost.' Electronic Intifada; 'In this mesmerizing look at Arab military leader Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Parsons fashions an unconventional biography of a divisive figure in the early 20th-century struggle for Arab sovereignty...The narrative is taut and fluid. Gliding along seamlessly, with a whole world unfurling like a carpet, al-Qawuqji emerges from these pages as an enigmatic, complex figure worthy of sustained scholarly attention.' Publishers Weekly (starred review); 'Parsons conveys the epic sweep of [al-Qawuqji's] life and his importance to Arab history...[The Commander is] a remarkably even-handed biography of an important player in Arab history that doubles as a crucial scholarly reinterpretation of the rise and fall of Arab nationalism.' Kirkus Reviews; 'Parsons captures Qawuqji as quixotic and charismatic, if at times desperate and reckless, and brings to the fore his relentless pursuit of a greater Arab state, despite sometimes insurmountable opposition from colonial powers, religious and ethnic groups, and other rebel leaders... In light of ongoing political upheaval in the Middle East, Parsons's coverage of this key figure and formative period is especially relevant.' Sarah Grant, BooklistTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix; Preface xiii; 1 Ottoman Officer 3; 2 Syria in Revolt 38; 3 Palestine 1936 107; 4 Baghdad to Berlin 141; 5 Palestine 1948 181; Epilogue 249; Notes on Sources 257; Acknowl-edgments 279; Index 283

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Book SynopsisThe Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown brings together Afif Safieh's articles, lectures and interviews from 1981, when he was a staff member in Yasser Arafat's Beirut office, to 2005, at the end of his mission in London, revealing the political and intellectual journey of one of Palestine's most skilled and distinguished diplomats.Trade Review'[An] intellectually powerful, articulate and eloquent spokesmen. His book makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the cause that he has served with dignity and distinction for over three decades. It deserves the widest possible readership.' Avi Shlaim, Oxford University 'These pages demonstrate Afif's commitment, his deep knowledge of history, his frustrations and his sparkling good humour.' Lord David Steel 'This collection - shines with brilliance and insight. Safieh is that rare combination of scholar, diplomat and humanist. There is much to be learned from reading his work-a compelling and principled call for examination and engagement.' Sara Roy, Harvard University 'A welcome addition to the literature written on the Peace Process. It is formidable in its eloquence, humanity and the description of his hopes for a just peace for all Palestinians.' Judge Eugene CotranTable of ContentsContents Introduction by Afif Safieh 9 i. The PLO: The challenge and the response 13 ii. One people too many? 21 111. Dead ends? 34 1v. Palestinian peace diplomacy 52 v. Resurrecting the European working paper 63 vi. Sources of Lebanese-Palestinian tensions 70 vii. Interview with Gene Sharp on Non-violent Struggle 81 viii. Minutes of evidence taken before the Foreign Affairs Committee 107 ix. Superpower politics and the Middle East 147 x. On the Madrid peace process 155 xi. On Jerusalem 164 xii. Those were the days 177 xiii. The role of third parties 184 xiv. Historical or territorial compromise 189 xv. From breakthrough to breakdown? 191 xvi. Out of Jerusalem? 201 xvii. Fifty years on: achievements and challenges 209 xviii. On Sabeel 216 xix. Diplomacy: The art of delaying the inevitable 219 xx. The end of pre-history 230 xxi. The international will and the national whim 235 xxii. Rome and its belligerent Sparta 240 xxiii. Letter to Prime Minister Blair 248 xxiv. On Edward Said 251 xxv. Which way is forward? 254 xxvi. On Yasser Arafat 267 xxvii. Anatomy of a mission: London 1990 - 2005 271

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Book SynopsisThis book uses the methodology of sociology and literary studies to come to terms with the reality of Palestinian citizens of Israel across several generations.

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Book SynopsisKenya's Independence Constitution: Constitution-Making and End of Empire is a narrative of the evolution of the constitution that was put into effect as Kenya's history as a colonial possession came to an end. It details the attempts of the colony's political elite and the British Colonial Office to find a constitutional means to move Kenya to the status of independent state. As this process moved forward, political ethnicity assumed central significance. This produced an environment in which demands for a federal constitution, popularly termed majimbo, came to dominate constitutional discourse. Deep disagreement among Kenya's political elite over this issue marked the remainder of the colonial period. That elite, now represented by the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), advocated different constitutional paths to independence. KADU's demands for a majimbo constitution dominated discourse during 1962 and early 1963, but deep disagreement characterized the constitutional negotiations. This resulted in a constitution for self-government (introduced on June 1, 1963) that was regional in character but fell short of a federal system. Almost as soon as it came into existence, this constitution faced pressure for substantial change from KANU, the party that won the 1963 general election. As a result, the British government was forced to make alterations in what became the independence constitution. The latter proved a prelude to the destruction of majimbo a year later. Kenya's Independence Constitution provides the first in-depth description of the final stage of colonial Kenya's constitutional evolution. This book not only provides a detailed account of the process of constitution-making, including definitive treatments of the final two constitutional conferences of 1962 and 1963. Utilizing British and Kenya cabinet papers and secret intelligence reports never featured in earlier accounts, the narrative also destroys many of the mytTrade ReviewRobert Maxon, a highly respected historian of Kenya, provides a detailed account of the complicated negotiation processes which led to the finalization of Kenya’s independence constitution. He has provided what is undoubtedly a magisterial and highly authoritative account of Kenya’s tumultuous independence process which will provide the major point of reference on the subject for many years ahead. * Journal of Contemporary African Studies *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Chapter One: Background to Constitution-Making and Decolonization Chapter 4 Chapter Two: Pressures for a New Constitution: Kenya, 1960–1961 Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Majimbo Takes Center Stage Chapter 6 Chapter Four: The Battle forMajimbo: Lancaster House II Chapter 7 Chapter Five: Making the Constitution, April–December 1962 Chapter 8 Chapter Six: Completing the Constitution, December 1962–April 1963 Chapter 9 Chapter Seven: The 1963 Election and Setting a Date for Independence Chapter 10 Chapter Eight: Change the Constitution Part 1: April–September 1963 Chapter 11 Chapter Nine: Change the Constitution Part 2: Lancaster House III and Kenya's Independence Constitution, September–December 1963 Chapter 12 Chapter Ten: Constitution-Making:Uhuru na Majimbo Chapter 13 Notes Chapter 14 Bibliography Chapter 15 Index

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Book SynopsisViolent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines why they play such a key role and the different ways in which they have developed. Placing them in the context of the region, separate chapters cover the organizations that are currently active, including: The Muslim Brotherhood, The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, Hamas, Hizbullah, the PKK, al-Shabab and the Huthis. The book shows that while these groups are a new phenomenon, they also relate to other key factors including the ‘unfinished business’ of the colonial and postcolonial eras and tacit encouragement of the Wahhabi/Salafi/jihadi da‘wa by some regional powers. Their diversity means violent non-state actors elude simple classification, ranging from ‘national’ and ‘transnational’ to religious and political movements. However, by examining their origins, their supporters and their motivations, this book helps explain their ubiquity in the region.Table of ContentsPreface Victor Kattan Foreword: Peter Sluglett and the Study of the Modern Middle East Toby Dodge 1. Introduction: Violent Non-State Actors in the Arab World: some General Considerations Peter Sluglett 2. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Violence: Porous Boundaries and Context Khalid Hroub 3. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria: Ideology vs. Context Hassan A. Barari 4. Between Religion, Warfare and Politics: the Case of Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria Mohamed-Ali Adraoui 5. The 2007 Hamas-Fatah Conflict in Gaza and the Israeli-American Demands Victor Kattan 6. Hizbullah and the Lebanese State: Indispensable, Unpredictable – Destabilizing? Peter Sluglett 7. When the State becomes a Non-State: Yemen in the Huthi/Ali Abdullah Salih Alliance Daniel Martin Varisco 8. Violent Non-State Actors in Somalia: al-Shabab and the Pirates Afyare A. Elmi and Ruqaya Mohamed 9. “Being in Time”: Kurdish Movement and Quests of Universal Hamit Borzolan Afterword Abdullah Baabood

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Book SynopsisIn 2011, the Trinidad government declared a state of emergency and an overnight curfew. The SoE, brought in to combat the crime and killings associated with the drugs trade, was meant to last 15 days but lasted four months. This is the background to these chronicles, but not their substance. They are an imaginative response to the undertones of those days. Taking place over 24 hours, Curfew Chronicles brings together, like a Joyce’s Ulysses in miniature, the lives of two dozen characters (including a father and son searching for each other) whose lives intersect in mostly fortuitous but sometimes quite deliberate ways.From the Minister and his wife, to those targeted by the state; from those in regular jobs, to those who scuffle for a living on or over the edge of the law; from those who speak out, to the hidden hands prepared to silence them: no one is unaffected by the SoE. What makes these stories individually rich (as well as collectively ingenious) is the depth of characterisation. There is Scholar the street-corner prophet, Ragga with his vision of better days, Keeper tempted into crime to the distress of his redoubtable partner Maureen, Sumintra, the Pentecostal convert struck dumb in prayer, Marcus the assassin whose life is a movie, Amber the security guard and poet and her policeman lover Calvin, eager to retire from clearing up little matters like the “weed” found in the PM’s residence, and many more. Each has a resonant backstory; each is caught at a moment of decision or revelation.

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Book SynopsisMuch of the recent surge in writing about the practice of nonviolent forms of resistance has focused on movements that occurred after the end of the Second World War, many of which have been extremely successful. Although the fact that such a method of resistance was developed in its modern form by Indians is acknowledged in this writing, there has not until now been an authoritative history of the role of Indians in the evolution of the phenomenon. Celebrated historian David Hardiman shows that while nonviolence is associated above all with the towering figure of Mahatma Gandhi, ‘passive resistance’ was already being practised by nationalists in British-ruled India, though there was no principled commitment to nonviolence as such. It was Gandhi, first in South Africa and then in India, who evolved a technique that he called ‘satyagraha’. His endeavours saw ‘nonviolence’ forged as both a new word in the English language, and a new political concept. This book conveys in vivid detail exactly what nonviolence entailed, and the formidable difficulties that the pioneers of such resistance encountered in the years 1905-19.Trade Review'Hardiman looks at the tangled web around the idea of ahimsaor non-violence both as a religious creed and its crossing over to the political domain at a time when organised mass mobilisation had just begun in India.''Hardiman demolishes the myth that Gandhian nonviolence succeeded in India because the colonial state observed the law. . . . This is a book every university should have in its library.'‘Provides new insights into India’s nationalist struggle during the first two decades of the 20th century . . . this book is required reading for those who wish to understand not only the central role Gandhi played in the Indian nationalist struggle but also the cooperation and contestation required of mass movements involving different social groups.’'Hardiman locates Gandhi in the little-known history of earlier Indian experiments with nonviolence, showing nonviolent resistance to be both creative and problematic, ambiguous and difficult, depending on the contexts in which it was practiced. A refreshing and illuminating approach.' -- Judith M. Brown'Hardiman brings his fierce capacity for scholarly focus to the formative period of India's freedom struggle. A vital and illuminating study of building strategy and a mass base, the honing of the practices of resistance, and the construction of a whole philosophy that has come to be called "nonviolence".' -- Akeel Bilgrami'An excellent contribution to the literature on nonviolent resistance.' -- April Carter'A valuable contribution to our understanding of the contested nature of nonviolence in India before the better-known Salt March. An important read for anyone who is interested in putting civil resistance in its historical context.' -- Erica Chenoweth

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Book SynopsisBritish imperialism was almost unparalleled in its historical and geographical reach, leaving a legacy of entrenched social transformation in nations and cultures in every part of the globe. Colonial annexation and government were based on an all-encompassing system that integrated and controlled political, economic, social and ethnic relations, and required a similar annexation and control of natural resources and nature itself. Colonial ideologies were expressed not only in the progressive exploitation of nature but also in the emerging discourses of conservation. At the start of the 21st century, the conservation of nature is of undiminished importance in post-colonial societies, yet the legacy of colonial thinking endures. What should conservation look like today, and what (indeed, whose) ideas should it be based upon? Decolonizing Nature explores the influence of the colonial legacy on contemporary conservation and on ideas about the relationships between people, polities and nature in countries and cultures that were once part of the British Empire. It locates the historical development of the theory and practice of conservation - at both the periphery and the centre - firmly within the context of this legacy, and considers its significance today. It highlights the present and future challenges to conservationists of contemporary global neo-colonialism The contributors to this volume include both academics and conservation practitioners. They provide wide-ranging and insightful perspectives on the need for, and practical ways to achieve new forms of informed ethical engagement between people and nature.Trade Review'Prepare to have your comfortable assumptions challenged.' Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 'This is an important book which argues conservationists to understand and move beyond the colonial baggage still influencing their work.' ECOS 'This book provides readers with a greater perspective on the history and significance of worldwide conservation policies that guide world leaders today when issues of sustainability are before them' Marilyn K. Alaimo, garden writer and library volunteer, Chicago Botanic Garden. Current Books on Gardening and Botany, June 2004. 'Decolonizing Nature presents current and future directions for conservation planning in the developed and developing worlds.' Brian H. King, University of Colorado, Boulder. Geographical Reviews.Table of ContentsIntroduction * Nature and the Colonial Mind * Decolonizing Relationships with Nature * The 'Wild', the Market, and the Native: Indigenous People Face New Forms of Global Colonization * Sharing South African National Parks: Community Land and Conservation in a Democratic South Africa * Devolving the Expropriation of Nature: The 'Devolution' of Wildlife Management in Southern Africa * Decolonizing Highland Conservation * Responding to Place in a Post-colonial Era: Reflections on the Australian Experience * When Nature Won't Stay Still: Conservation, Equilibrium and Control * Beyond Preservation: The Challenge of Ecological Restoration * Feet to the Ground in Storied Landscapes: Disrupting the Colonial Legacy with a Poetic Politics * Conclusions * Index

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Book SynopsisAs a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography. A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age looks at the development of photography from the beginning and traces its uses in Indonesia from its invention to the present day. The Dutch colonial government first brought the medium to the East Indies in the 1840s and immediately recognized its potential in serving the colonial apparatus. As the country grew and changed, so too did the medium. Photography was not only an essential tool of colonialism, but it also became part of the movement for independence, a voice for reformasi, an agent for advocating democracy, and is now available to anyone with a phone. This book gathers essays by leading artists, scholars, and curators from around the world who have worked with photography in Indonesia and have traced the evolution of the medium from its inception to the present day, addressing the impact of photography on colonialism, independence, and democratization.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Invention of Photography, the Nederlands, and the Dutch East Indies Journeys Completed and Journeys to Come in Indonesian Photography Portraits of Power The Dance Photographs of Walter Spies and Claire Holt: A Biographical Study Midcentury European Modernism and the March Towards Independence: Gotthard Schuh, Cas Oorthuys, Niels Douwes Dekker, and Henri Cartier-Bresson A Short History of IPPHOS Art Photography in Indonesia: J.M. Arastatch Ro’is, Tirsno Suardjo, and Zenith Magazine Reflections on Reformasi Photography (from the Vantage Point of the 2014 Elections) Journalistic Circus: A Look at Photojournalism in Indonesia and the History of the Antara Gallery of Photojournalism New Media Culture Development of Photographic Education in Indonesia MES 56: Souvenirs from the Past Hybrid Practices of the MES 56 Photography Collective Outsiders On Silence, Seeking, and Speaking: Meditations on Identity Through My Family Albums A City on the Move: Bandung Today Urban Parallax: Jakarta Street Photography on Instagram A Personal Note: The Ground Beneath My Feet

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Book SynopsisClément Brasseur was the officer responsible for initiating the colonial occupation of Katanga in the 1890s. Available in English for the first time, these letters reveal the racist and gendered world inhabited by Brasseur and show that the early colonial experience was as violent in Katanga as in other areas.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Brasseur's Papers and the African Roots of the Congo Free State The Collection Editorial Matters Historical Background The Importance of Brasseur's Correspondence Part I: Settling In (September 1893 - April 1895) Letter 1 Letter 2 Letter 3 Part II: Journeys To the South-West and To Lake Mweru (May - October 1895) Letter 4 Part III: Life at Lofoi I (October 1895 - May 1896) Letter 5 Letter 6 Letter 7 Part IV: Journey to the Upemba Depression (June - November 1896) Letter 8 Letter 9 Part V: Life at Lofoi II (November 1896 - April 1897) Letter 10 Letter 11 Letter 12 Letter 13 Part IV: Journeys to the Lubule & the Upper Lualaba and Luapula Rivers (April - September 1897) Letter 14 Letter 15 Part VII: Last Act (September - November 1897) Letter 16 Letter 17 Maps: Katanga in the 1890s Glossary Onomasticon References Appendix 1: 'Station du Lofoï (Katanga)', September 1894 Appendix 2: The new Lofoi station, 1895 Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of Johannesburg's MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. This title focuses on racism and its institutionalization in South Africa.Trade Review"There is something fresh, rewarding, and even courageous in Sara Byala's approach. She not only manages to reconstruct the history of MuseumAfrica but also demonstrates quite clearly that none of the new museums in South Africa today were created without some institutional (or bureaucratic) connection to it." (Christopher B. Steiner, Connecticut College)"

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Book SynopsisDrive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or come in extravagant colors, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama, of athletes, movie stars, or the most famous face of all: Jesus Christ. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto many socioeconomic and political facets of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs they express multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life including rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, chaos and congestion,

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Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. This text provides readings of post-colonial fiction, showing how imperialism shaped British national identity.

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Book SynopsisDrive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or come in extravagant colors, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama, of athletes, movie stars, or the most famous face of all: Jesus Christ. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto many socioeconomic and political facets of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs they express multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life including rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, chaos and congestion,

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Book SynopsisScholars from various disciplines explore how, two decades after Aimé Césaire spoke of the imperial boomerang, Edward Said’s Orientalism represented the beginnings of his attempts to appropriate the boomerang’s recursive nature and empower decolonial processes that would transform everyone, for the betterment of all.Trade Review“Just as Orientalism spurred further anti-Orientalist research, The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization encourages further engagement with decolonial epistemology and praxis in which the politics of identity sustain an inclusive, not assimilative, discourse of allyship that is neither purist nor exclusivist.” Eid Mohamed, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and author of Arab Occidentalism: Images of America in the Middle East

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Book SynopsisLeela Gandhi’s Postcolonial Theory is a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms and its intellectual context. The revised edition of this classic work reaffirms its status as a useful starting point for readers new to the field and a provocative account that opens up possibilities for debate.Trade ReviewLeela Gandhi’s important book is the first to describe the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms, setting it in an intellectual context alongside poststructuralism and deconstruction. She argues that it is marked not by a politics of identity so much as its breaching. Drawing our attention to its focus on the indefinite, unfinished, and peripatetic, Gandhi allows us to see postcolonialism as a contemporary but also successor of anarchism. -- Faisal Devji, University of OxfordPostcolonial Theory is much more than a primer. It is a shimmering and indispensable work by a formidable thinker that reforms all that it describes. Leela Gandhi tells a vivid story about the enormous stakes involved in thinking about forms of colonial violence and suffering that haunt contemporary society. The lessons of Postcolonial Theory are bold and urgent ones for students to learn and for scholars to confront today. -- Mrinalini Chakravorty, author of In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary ImaginaryThis book is everything an introduction should be. It is focused, informative, thought-provoking, enjoyable, and student-friendly. As an invitation to a first engagement with its now sprawling subject, it is timely and welcome. * Radical Philosophy *[Gandhi’s] admirably concise and well-written volume will prove invaluable to readers new to postcolonial theory as well as to readers already familiar with this diverse and often diversely confusing field. * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *An acutely stimulating read. * World Literature Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First Edition1. After Colonialism2. Thinking Otherwise: A Brief Intellectual History3. Postcolonialism and the New Humanities4. Edward Said and His Critics5. Postcolonialism and Feminism6. Imagining Community: The Question of Nationalism7. One World: The Vision of Postnationalism8. Postcolonial Literatures9. The Limits of Postcolonial TheoryEpilogue: If This Were a Manifesto for Postcolonial ThinkingBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the first complete translation of Antonio Gramsci’s notes on the concept of subalternity, including the prison notebook devoted to the theme of subaltern social groups. It includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources and contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and letters.Trade ReviewThe subaltern defined Antonio Gramsci's work. In this volume, Joseph A. Buttigieg's final gift to the world of Gramsci, devotedly assembled and fleshed out by his former student Marcus E. Green, we at last have the full view of how that definition came into being. A treasure. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of "Can the Subaltern Speak?"Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have become a kind of Marxist oracle, a well-spring of pithy passages deployed in the service of interminable debates, especially around questions of culture, civil society, the state, history, and the role of intellectuals. On first glance, Gramsci’s 3,000 pages of research, reflections, and analyses may appear random, disordered, even coded. But serious Gramsci scholars know better, and there are few as serious as the late Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green. Their painstaking and judicious reconstruction of Gramsci's writings on subaltern groups raises the bar, revealing with greater clarity the systematic development of his ideas on history, class struggles, folk culture, the state, the dynamic and contingent character of social movements, and the limits of a utopian imagination. This volume challenges us all to stop plumbing Gramsci’s notebooks for jewels and take the work and its context as a whole. Our scholarship and our movements will benefit. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical ImaginationButtigieg and Green have done a remarkable job in making available to the English-speaking world this groundbreaking text of the leading Marxist thinker of the twentieth century. -- Cornel West, Union Theological SeminaryEssential reading for all those interested in Gramsci. By skillfully combining a thematic with a philological approach and including relevant notes from the other prison notebooks, the editors reveal the profoundly historical nature of their author’s thought. History is never shoehorned into predetermined boxes. Gramsci’s theoretical concepts emerge out of history itself. -- Kate Crehan, author of Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and its NarrativesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsEditor’s Notes Introduction, by Marcus E. GreenPrison NotebooksNotebook 25 (1934): On the Margins of History (The History of Subaltern Social Groups) First Draft Notes of Notebook 25Subaltern Social Groups in Miscellaneous Notes and Special NotebooksNotesNotebook 25 (1934): Description of the ManuscriptNotes to the Text: Notebook 25Notes to the Text: First Draft Notes of Notebook 25Notes to the Text: Subaltern Social Groups in Miscellaneous Notes and Special NotebooksSequence of Notes by Title or Opening PhraseIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the first complete translation of Antonio Gramsci’s notes on the concept of subalternity, including the prison notebook devoted to the theme of subaltern social groups. It includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources and contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and letters.Trade ReviewThe subaltern defined Antonio Gramsci's work. In this volume, Joseph A. Buttigieg's final gift to the world of Gramsci, devotedly assembled and fleshed out by his former student Marcus E. Green, we at last have the full view of how that definition came into being. A treasure. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of "Can the Subaltern Speak?"Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have become a kind of Marxist oracle, a well-spring of pithy passages deployed in the service of interminable debates, especially around questions of culture, civil society, the state, history, and the role of intellectuals. On first glance, Gramsci’s 3,000 pages of research, reflections, and analyses may appear random, disordered, even coded. But serious Gramsci scholars know better, and there are few as serious as the late Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green. Their painstaking and judicious reconstruction of Gramsci's writings on subaltern groups raises the bar, revealing with greater clarity the systematic development of his ideas on history, class struggles, folk culture, the state, the dynamic and contingent character of social movements, and the limits of a utopian imagination. This volume challenges us all to stop plumbing Gramsci’s notebooks for jewels and take the work and its context as a whole. Our scholarship and our movements will benefit. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical ImaginationButtigieg and Green have done a remarkable job in making available to the English-speaking world this groundbreaking text of the leading Marxist thinker of the twentieth century. -- Cornel West, Union Theological SeminaryEssential reading for all those interested in Gramsci. By skillfully combining a thematic with a philological approach and including relevant notes from the other prison notebooks, the editors reveal the profoundly historical nature of their author’s thought. History is never shoehorned into predetermined boxes. Gramsci’s theoretical concepts emerge out of history itself. -- Kate Crehan, author of Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and its NarrativesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsEditor’s Notes Introduction, by Marcus E. GreenPrison NotebooksNotebook 25 (1934): On the Margins of History (The History of Subaltern Social Groups) First Draft Notes of Notebook 25Subaltern Social Groups in Miscellaneous Notes and Special NotebooksNotesNotebook 25 (1934): Description of the ManuscriptNotes to the Text: Notebook 25Notes to the Text: First Draft Notes of Notebook 25Notes to the Text: Subaltern Social Groups in Miscellaneous Notes and Special NotebooksSequence of Notes by Title or Opening PhraseIndex

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Book SynopsisThe problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. Gavin Arnall traces an internal division throughout Fanon’s work, contending that there are two Fanons: a dominant Fanon who conceives of change as a dialectical process of becoming and a subterranean Fanon who experiments with an even more explosive underground theory of transformation.Trade ReviewGavin Arnall’s brilliant book, Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change, is such a welcome arrival to the field. * Postmodern Culture *[A] timely book . . . This book will be especially appreciated by readers with an already solid understanding of Fanonian thought. It is an important contribution to Fanon studies, particularly relevant in the contemporary context of Black Lives Matter and other socio-political resistance movements across the world. * EuropeNow *Subterranean Fanon is a concise, yet broad overview of Frantz Fanon’s work . . . [It] is one of the most extensive overviews of commentaries on Fanon’s work to date, critically engaging with arguments from Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Cedric Robinson, Ato Sekyi-Out, Nigel Gibson to Achille Mbembe and Lewis Gordon. . . The questions raised by Subterranean Fanon are important and should be engaged with by all those who are seeking to understand Fanon today. * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *Frantz Fanon has reemerged as the radical thinker of the twenty-first century. We turn to Fanon to understand interminable global racism, state violence, and capitalism’s ability to weather ongoing crises. But which Fanon? The dialectical thinker who imagined a new humanity emerging from the shell of the old antagonisms? Or the nondialectical thinker who called for the complete and total destruction of colonial structures of oppression, who imagined with almost eschatological fury a new beginning from the ashes of the old world? Gavin Arnall’s provocative and superb study insists that we need not choose nor attempt to reconcile Fanon’s divided thought. But if we confront his contradictions directly, embrace his unique mode of thinking and imagination, we will surely discover the true depths of Fanon’s radical emancipatory vision. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, University of California, Los AngelesArnall's Subterranean Fanon is a unique combination of close reading and theoretical sophistication. This unprecedented work of intellectual inquiry is one of the most comprehensive, consistent, and cogently argued books on Frantz Fanon. It will reset the terms of further debates on Fanon's multiple legacies. -- Achille Mbembe, author of Out of the Dark Night: Essays on DecolonizationWritten with clarity, subtlety, and purpose, Subterranean Fanon is the first book to undertake an analysis of Fanon's thought on the basis of the whole of his corpus. In this tour de force, Gavin Arnall makes a compelling case for the disjunctive and translational presence of two Fanons throughout the writings, two modalities for conceptualizing and acting upon the radical change decolonization calls for. The book is essential reading for Fanon scholars and for all those engaged in the urgency of thinking through the grounds and the ramifications of change in our times. -- Natalie Melas, Cornell UniversitySubterranean Fanon is grounded in Arnall's expertise in Fanon's writings, which he reads carefully and creatively. He develops an important argument about a central tension in Fanon's thinking between Hegelian-dialectical and Nietzschean-ruptural orientations, each of which expresses a certain kind of radical universalism. This exemplary work of scholarship should shift the ground of debate about this canonical thinker. It is also a welcome example of next-generation postcolonial and political theory. -- Gary Wilder, author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the WorldTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Two Fanons1. The Psychiatric Papers and Parallel Hands2. Black Skin, White Masks 3. Writings on the Algerian Revolution4. The Wretched of the Earth (Part I)5. The Wretched of the Earth (Part II)ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRochona Majumdar examines key works of Indian art cinema to demonstrate how film emerged as a mode of doing history and that, in so doing, it anticipated some of the most influential insights of postcolonial thought. She analyzes the films of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak as well as a host of film society publications.Trade ReviewFrom writer Rochona Majumdar comes this decidedly anti-colonialist read about the history of Indian cinema, with a specific eye towards post-independence India and the house of cards its democracy is built on. Highlight of the book is whenever Majumdar waxes philosophical about Ritwik Ghatak, a filmmaker worthy of much more discussion here stateside. -- Joshua Brunsting * CriterionCast *Rochona Majumdar, the historian, intervenes in the rich discourse surrounding the films of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak through her meticulously researched and compelling book, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony. -- Swarnavel Eswaran * South Asian History and Culture *Majumdar’s brief comment on Ray’s Calcutta trilogy as an ethnographic turn in his career, for example, is a fine provocation to rethink the shifting significance of realism in Ray’s oeuvre. Such remarks invite scholars to study these filmmakers in a comparative vein across regional, national, and transnational concerns, a task set in motion by Majumdar’s book. -- TRINANKUR BANERJEE * Film Quarterly *Rochona Majumdar's book on Art Cinema is a compelling chapter on India's modern history recorded on screen. -- Tanushree Ghosh * The Indian Express *Rochona Majumdar's book is a pleasingly accessible academic study on Indian art cinema. -- Jel Arjun Singh * India Today *The book is nuanced and its arguments are complex. Yet, it is lucid and accessible, and makes for a compelling reading. It is a compulsory book for anyone interested in history and/or visual culture. -- Dr. Arvind Elangovan * Critical Collective *How does cinema apprehend its historical moment? With characteristic eloquence and insight, Majumdar gives us a vivid account of India’s art cinema and film societies to take the shifting pulse of a nation in the early decades of its independence. In Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures, a rigorous interrogation into the category of radical art extends archivally-rich readings of works by Ray, Sen and Ghatak, to ground a powerful vision of films that put the specious terms of India’s democracy under scrutiny. This book changes how we will think about histories of, and histories within, art cinema. -- Priya Jaikumar, author of Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed SpaceHistory and film criticism are profoundly imbricated in Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures. Even as the book uncovers new archives for postcolonial research, it triumphantly validates cultural criticism as historical method. An invaluable scholarly work. -- Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, coeditor of Commodities and Culture in the Colonial WorldThe tradition of art cinema in India has rarely been framed with such a rich archival ambition. Displaying an eye for detail and a strong conceptual drive, Majumdar creatively establishes a similarity between the art film maker’s capacity for historical reflection and the historian’s craft. -- Ranjani Mazumdar, author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the CityLike the incisive art cinema she unsheathes, Rochona Majumdar probes India in its painful passage beyond partition, staggering into modernity. Cinema has never been more ‘critical’ than in Bengal from 1960 to 1974 as Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen exposed the innards of an immense ailing culture of which the brightness of Bollywood is but a fever symptom. Majumdar, to use her fertile word, apprehends the absolute necessity not just of art films like those she deftly analyses, but of the fragile film society movement that let them breathe. It’s an inspiring if tragic history, one she carefully remembers for a future that may still be possible. -- Dudley Andrew, Yale UniversityIn this engaging book, Majumdar has brought art cinema alive in a carefully contextualized study of Ray, Sen, and Ghatak—three Bengali directors who, she argues, anticipated critical historians. Her writing is evocative, thoughtful and illuminating. -- Partha Chatterjee, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The History of Art Cinema1. Art Cinema: The Indian Career of a Global Category2. The “New” Indian Cinema: Journeys of the Art Film3. Debating Radical Cinema: A History of the Film Society MovementPart II: Art Films as History4. Ritwik Ghatak and the Overcoming of History5. “Anger and After”: History, Political Cinema, and Mrinal Sen6. The Untimely Filmmaker: Ray’s City Trilogy and a Crisis of HistoricismEpilogue: Art Cinema and Our PresentAcknowledgmentsNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRochona Majumdar examines key works of Indian art cinema to demonstrate how film emerged as a mode of doing history and that, in so doing, it anticipated some of the most influential insights of postcolonial thought. She analyzes the films of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak as well as a host of film society publications.Trade ReviewFrom writer Rochona Majumdar comes this decidedly anti-colonialist read about the history of Indian cinema, with a specific eye towards post-independence India and the house of cards its democracy is built on. Highlight of the book is whenever Majumdar waxes philosophical about Ritwik Ghatak, a filmmaker worthy of much more discussion here stateside. -- Joshua Brunsting * CriterionCast *Rochona Majumdar, the historian, intervenes in the rich discourse surrounding the films of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak through her meticulously researched and compelling book, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony. -- Swarnavel Eswaran * South Asian History and Culture *Majumdar’s brief comment on Ray’s Calcutta trilogy as an ethnographic turn in his career, for example, is a fine provocation to rethink the shifting significance of realism in Ray’s oeuvre. Such remarks invite scholars to study these filmmakers in a comparative vein across regional, national, and transnational concerns, a task set in motion by Majumdar’s book. -- TRINANKUR BANERJEE * Film Quarterly *Rochona Majumdar's book on Art Cinema is a compelling chapter on India's modern history recorded on screen. -- Tanushree Ghosh * The Indian Express *Rochona Majumdar's book is a pleasingly accessible academic study on Indian art cinema. -- Jel Arjun Singh * India Today *The book is nuanced and its arguments are complex. Yet, it is lucid and accessible, and makes for a compelling reading. It is a compulsory book for anyone interested in history and/or visual culture. -- Dr. Arvind Elangovan * Critical Collective *How does cinema apprehend its historical moment? With characteristic eloquence and insight, Majumdar gives us a vivid account of India’s art cinema and film societies to take the shifting pulse of a nation in the early decades of its independence. In Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures, a rigorous interrogation into the category of radical art extends archivally-rich readings of works by Ray, Sen and Ghatak, to ground a powerful vision of films that put the specious terms of India’s democracy under scrutiny. This book changes how we will think about histories of, and histories within, art cinema. -- Priya Jaikumar, author of Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed SpaceHistory and film criticism are profoundly imbricated in Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures. Even as the book uncovers new archives for postcolonial research, it triumphantly validates cultural criticism as historical method. An invaluable scholarly work. -- Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, coeditor of Commodities and Culture in the Colonial WorldThe tradition of art cinema in India has rarely been framed with such a rich archival ambition. Displaying an eye for detail and a strong conceptual drive, Majumdar creatively establishes a similarity between the art film maker’s capacity for historical reflection and the historian’s craft. -- Ranjani Mazumdar, author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the CityLike the incisive art cinema she unsheathes, Rochona Majumdar probes India in its painful passage beyond partition, staggering into modernity. Cinema has never been more ‘critical’ than in Bengal from 1960 to 1974 as Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen exposed the innards of an immense ailing culture of which the brightness of Bollywood is but a fever symptom. Majumdar, to use her fertile word, apprehends the absolute necessity not just of art films like those she deftly analyses, but of the fragile film society movement that let them breathe. It’s an inspiring if tragic history, one she carefully remembers for a future that may still be possible. -- Dudley Andrew, Yale UniversityIn this engaging book, Majumdar has brought art cinema alive in a carefully contextualized study of Ray, Sen, and Ghatak—three Bengali directors who, she argues, anticipated critical historians. Her writing is evocative, thoughtful and illuminating. -- Partha Chatterjee, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The History of Art Cinema1. Art Cinema: The Indian Career of a Global Category2. The “New” Indian Cinema: Journeys of the Art Film3. Debating Radical Cinema: A History of the Film Society MovementPart II: Art Films as History4. Ritwik Ghatak and the Overcoming of History5. “Anger and After”: History, Political Cinema, and Mrinal Sen6. The Untimely Filmmaker: Ray’s City Trilogy and a Crisis of HistoricismEpilogue: Art Cinema and Our PresentAcknowledgmentsNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn his now classic volume Prospero and Caliban, Octave Mannoni gives his firsthand account of a 1948 revolt in Madagascar that led to one of the bloodiest episodes of colonial repression on the African continent. Anthropologist Maurice Bloch has written a powerful and critical new foreword to this English translation.

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Book SynopsisAn assessment of the impact of Spain on the Americas. It presents a picture of the conquests of Cortes and Pizarro and of the economic and social consequences in Spain of the effort to maintain control of vast holdings. It probes the complex administration of the empire, its economy, social structure, the influence of the Church, and more.Table of ContentsIntroduction by ].H. Plumb PROLOGUE The tradition of conquest PART I THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EMPIRE I Islands and mainland in the Ocean Sea 2 Seville and the Caribbean 3 The kingdoms of the sun 4 The conquerors 5 The society of conquest 6 The maritime life-line PART II THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF EMPIRE 7 Rights and duties 8 The spreading of the Faith 9 The ordering of society 10 The enforcement of law PART III THE COST OF EMPIRE 11 Demographic catastrophe 12 Economic dependence 13 Peril by sea PART IV THE ENDURANCE OF EMPIRE 14 Decline and recovery 15 Caribbean conflicts 16 Growth and reorganisation PART V THE DISINTEGRATION OF EMPIRE 17 Spaniards and Americans 18 The Creole revolt CONCLUSION The aftermath of empire Bibliographical notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis text offers a new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of post-colonial Mexico and Peru, it provides an analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states.Table of ContentsList of Maps Preface Acknowledgments 1 Political History from Below: Hegemony, the State, and Nationalist Discourses PART 1 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, NATIONAL GUARDS, AND THE LIBERAL REVOLUTION IN THE SIERRA NORTE DE PUEBLA 2 Contested Citizenship (1 ): Liberals, Conservatives, and Indigenous National Guards, 1850-1867 3 The Conflictual Construction of Community: Gender, Ethnicity, and Hegemony 4 Alternative Nationalisms and Hegemonic Discourses: Peasant Visions of the Nation PART 2 COMMUNAL HEGEMONY AND NATIONALIST DISCOURSES IN MEXICO AND PERU 5 Contested Citizenship (2): Regional Political Cultures, Peasant Visions of the Nation, and the Liberal Revolution in Morelos 6 From Citizen to Other: National Resistance, State Formation, and Peasant Visions of the Nation in Junin 7 Communal Hegemony and Alternative Nationalisms: Historical Contingencies and Limiting Cases PART 3 ALTERNATIVE NATIONAL PROJECTS AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATE 8 The Intricacies of Coercion: Popular Political Cultures, Repression, and the Failure of Hegemony 9 Whose Bones Are They, Anyway, and Who Gets to Decide? Local Intellectuals, Hegemony, and Counterhegemony in National Politics 10 Popular Nationalism and Statemaking in Mexico and Peru: The Deconstruction of Community and Popular Culture Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThese two memoirs provide windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early 20th-century history of south-east Asia, in general. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers tell the story of their country's turbulent journey to independence.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS MAPS GLOSSARY PART ONE • TWO SUMATRAN CHILDHOOD MEMOIRS Imagining Modern Indonesia via Autobiography Introduction The Texts and Their Authors Autobiography in Indonesian and Malay Historical Traditions Images of Self and Society Book Learning, Schools, Language, and Knowledge Portrayals of Religion Images of Time and Historical Narration Sumatran Childhood Autobiography as History A Note on Translation Notes PART TWO • THE TRANSLATIONS Aku dan Toba [Me and Toba], by P. Pospos Notes Semasa Kecil di Kampung [ Village Childhood], by Muhamad Radjab Notes REFERENCES INDEX

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Book SynopsisStarting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, this volume investigates metropolitan-colonial relationships. It shows how "civilizing missions" often provided new sites for a bourgeois order.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Between Metropole and Colony: Rethinking a Research Agenda Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper Part I Framings 1 Liberal Strategies of Exclusion Uday S. Mehta 2 Imperialism and Motherhood Anna Davin 3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse Homi Bhabha Part II Making Boundaries Contents 4 Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa John L. Comaroff 5 Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia Ann Laura Stoler 6 "The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable": Missionary Imperialism and the Language of Class in Early Industrial Britain Susan Thorne 7 Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German Colonial Empire Lora Wildenthal Part III Colonial Projects 8 "Le bebe en brousse": European Women, African Birth Spacing, and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feeding in the Belgian Congo Nancy Rose Hunt 9 Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 190G-1930 Gwendolyn Wright 10 Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria Fanny Colonna Part IV Contesting the Categories of Rule 11 The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity: Public Debates on Domesticity in British Bengal Dipesh Chakrabarty 12 The Dialectics of Decolonization: Nationalism and Labor Movements in Postwar French Africa Frederick Cooper 13 Cars Out of Place: Vampires, Technology, and Labor in East and Central Africa Luise White Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis study discusses Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism, as well as examining colonialism and nationalism generally. It demonstrates how central the issue of the Sudan was to Egyptian nationalism and highlights ambivalence in Egyptian attitudes to empire.Trade Review"An absorbing, important book... Should stimulate reconsideration of the ambiguous role of colonial intermediaries." Intl Journal Of Middle East Stds (Ijmes)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Journeys from the Fantastic to the Colonial 2. Black Servants and Saviors: The Domestic Empire of Egypt 3. The Lived Experience of Contradiction: Ibrahm Fawz's Narrative of the Sudan 4. The Tools of the Master: Slavery, Family, and the Unity of the Nile Valley 5. Egyptians in Blackface: Revolution and Popular Culture, World War 1 to 1925 Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisPaints seven scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. This title presents a memory of family and a vivid portrayal of life in a time of anguish.Trade Review"Lost Names is not a poem of hate, but a poem of love. . . . It is elegaic. It rises to moments of considerable dramatic power, but its finest moments, as when we see the cemeteries full of Koreans apologizing to their ancestors for having lost their names, are lyrical." * New York Times *"The author's clear, evocative narrative describes a terrifying experience—foreign occupation. Its homely detail demonstrates how pervasive nationality is, and how painful any attempt to destroy it." * New Yorker *"This memorable document of courage and endurance is written with clarity and vigor, pierced with moments of poignant love and the blazing resentment of the young." * Saturday Review *Table of ContentsPreface to the Fortieth Anniversary Edition Crossing Homecoming Once upon a Time, on a Sunday Lost Names An Empire for Rubber Balls "Is Someone Dying?" In the Making of History-Together Author's Note

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Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Becoming Global Asia centers Singapore as a crucial site for comprehending the uneven effects of colonialism and capitalism. In the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Singapore initiated socioeconomic policies and branding campaigns to transform its reputation from a culturally sterile and punitive nation to Global Asiaan alluring location ideal for economic flourishing. Rather than evaluating the efficacy of state policy, Cheryl Narumi Naruse analyzes how Singapore gained cultural capital and soft power from its anglophonic legibility. By examining genres such as literary anthologies, demographic compilations, coming-of-career narratives, and princess fantasies, Naruse reveals how, as Global Asia, Singapore has emerged as simultaneously a site of imperial desire, a celebrated postcolonial model nation, and an alibi for the continued subjugation of the so-called Third World. Her readings of Global Asia as a formation of postcolonial capitalism offer new conceptual paradigms for understanding postcolonialism, neoliberalism, and empire.

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Book SynopsisWithin twenty years of victory in the Second World War Britain had ceased to be a world power and her global empire has dissolved into fragments. With what now seems astonishing rapidity, and empire three centuries old, which had reached its greatest extent as late as 1921, was transformed into more than fifty sovereign states. Why did this great transformation come about? Had Britain simply become too weak in a world of superpowers? Had the pressure of colonial nationalism suddenly become overwhelming? Or had the British themselves decided that they no longer needed an empire, and that interests were better served by joining the rich man''s club of Europe? In this short book, these and other theories are examined critically. The aim is not to present a detailed narrative of Britain''s imperial retreat but to introduce the reader to the current state of debate in a rapidly expanding subject.Table of ContentsDomestic politics and Britain's imperial retreat; economics and the end of Empire; international politics and the end of Empire; the onslaught of colonial nationalism.

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Book Synopsis* Guides the reader through historical, linguistic and theoretical issues. * Avoids jargon and generalization. * Offers detailed case studies of literary texts by a wide range of writers. * Provides a clear and provocative account.Trade Review"Would be particularly suitable as the basis for an undergarduate course."Contemporary South Asia "Offers a clear survey of the development of the field, and a vigorous engagement with early scholars and more recent theorists". Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introducing the Post-Colonial. Part I: Studying Post-Colonial Literatures: . 2. History. 3. Language. 4. Theory. Part II: Case Studies:. 5. Indo-Anglian Fiction. 6. Caribbean and Black British Poetry. 7. South African Literature in the Interregnum. 8. After Post-Colonialism?. Selected Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisDecolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s. Compares key cases across the European colonial empires Focuses on the process and impact of decolonization at the level of the ''late colonial state'' and of colonial societies Presents an original model of decolonization that seeks to reconcile imperial and nationalist perspectives Engages with important theoretical approaches Makes extensive reference to recent literature on the subject Trade Review"Decolonization and its Impact provides a well-written survey of mid-twentieth century decolonization. Shipway's expertise in the French experience of this period is self-evident and, with Madagascar and Sudan, he has focused on case studies which are often overlooked in works of this kind. The book is based on an extensive bibliography, and while not dramatically re-casting existing historical explanations, it will make a welcome addition to undergraduate reading lists on decolonization." (South African Historical Journal, July 2010) "[The] book represents a notable accomplishment, a feat of stylish synthesis and compression which will inject still greater energy into an already vigorous debate." (H-Soz-u-Kult, June 2010) "This book offers both original insights and a meticulous engagement with the existing historiography on the subject." (The American Historical Review, February 2010) "It provides a much needed comparative review of European decolonization, grounded in a thorough survey of the most recent literature on the subject.... A rich, insightful and deeply rewarding survey of decolonization." (The International History Review, December 2009) "The scope of the account is global ... with an admirable combination of detail and attention to broad historic trends. Recommended." (CHOICE)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Maps. Introduction: Decolonization in Comparative Perspective. 1 The Colonial State: Patterns of Rule, Habits of Mind. 2 Colonial Politics Before the Flood: Challenging the State, Imagining the Nation. 3 The Second World War and the ‘First Wave’ of Decolonization. 4 Imperial Designs and Nationalist Realities in Southeast Asia, 1945–1955. 5 Shifting Frameworks for Change: The Late Colonial State in Africa. 6 The Late Colonial State at War: Insurgency, Emergency and Terror. 7 Towards Self-Government: Patterns of Late Colonial African Politics, 1951–1957. 8 Wind of Change: Endgame in Colonial Africa, 1958–64. 9 Conclusion: The Impact of Decolonization. Appendix: Dates of Independence of African States. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisDecolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s. Compares key cases across the European colonial empires Focuses on the process and impact of decolonization at the level of the ''late colonial state'' and of colonial societies Presents an original model of decolonization that seeks to reconcile imperial and nationalist perspectives Engages with important theoretical approaches Makes extensive reference to recent literature on the subject Trade Review"Decolonization and its Impact provides a well-written survey of mid-twentieth century decolonization. Shipway's expertise in the French experience of this period is self-evident and, with Madagascar and Sudan, he has focused on case studies which are often overlooked in works of this kind. The book is based on an extensive bibliography, and while not dramatically re-casting existing historical explanations, it will make a welcome addition to undergraduate reading lists on decolonization." (South African Historical Journal, July 2010) "[The] book represents a notable accomplishment, a feat of stylish synthesis and compression which will inject still greater energy into an already vigorous debate." (H-Soz-u-Kult, June 2010) "This book offers both original insights and a meticulous engagement with the existing historiography on the subject." (The American Historical Review, February 2010) "It provides a much needed comparative review of European decolonization, grounded in a thorough survey of the most recent literature on the subject.... A rich, insightful and deeply rewarding survey of decolonization." (The International History Review, December 2009) "The scope of the account is global ... with an admirable combination of detail and attention to broad historic trends. Recommended." (CHOICE)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Maps. Introduction: Decolonization in Comparative Perspective. 1 The Colonial State: Patterns of Rule, Habits of Mind. 2 Colonial Politics Before the Flood: Challenging the State, Imagining the Nation. 3 The Second World War and the ‘First Wave’ of Decolonization. 4 Imperial Designs and Nationalist Realities in Southeast Asia, 1945–1955. 5 Shifting Frameworks for Change: The Late Colonial State in Africa. 6 The Late Colonial State at War: Insurgency, Emergency and Terror. 7 Towards Self-Government: Patterns of Late Colonial African Politics, 1951–1957. 8 Wind of Change: Endgame in Colonial Africa, 1958–64. 9 Conclusion: The Impact of Decolonization. Appendix: Dates of Independence of African States. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the changes that have occurred in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. This book presents introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization.Trade Review"The present volume is one of the largest and most intellectually ambitious collections of essays to emerge in the past decade. Highly recommended, upper-division undergraduates and above in social science and humanities." (Choice)Table of ContentsList of Contributors ix Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies xv Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Acknowledgments xxiii Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy 1 Henry Schwarz Part I: Historical and Theoretical Issues 21 1 Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 23 Neil Larsen 2 Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism 53 Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park 3 Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy 72 David Theo Goldberg 4 Postcolonialism and Postmodernism 87 Ato Quayson 5 Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism 112 Jenny Sharpe 6 Global Capital and Transnationalism 126 Crystal Bartolovich Part II: The Local and the Global 163 7 A Vindication of Double Consciousness 165 Doris Sommer 8 Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests – The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations 180 Walter D. Mignolo 9 US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies 203 Donald E. Pease 10 Indigenousness and Indigeneity 221 Jace Weaver 11 Creolization, Orality, and Nation Language in the Caribbean 236 Supriya Nair 12 “Middle-class” Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia 252 Sumit Sarkar 13 Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies 269 Tejumola Olaniyan 14 The “Middle East”? Or . . . /Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament 282 Magda M. Al-Nowaihi 15 King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the “Handover” from the USA 304 Rey Chow 16 Japan and East Asia 319 Sandra Buckley 17 Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java 333 Laurie J. Sears 18 Settler Colonies 360 Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson 19 Ireland After History 377 David Lloyd 20 Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis-)Order 396 Ali Behdad 21 Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender 410 Geeta Patel Part III: The Inventiveness of Theory 429 22 Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said 431 Anthony C. Alessandrini 23 Spivak and Bhabha 451 Bart Moore-Gilbert 24 A Small History of Subaltern Studies 467 Dipesh Chakrabarty 25 Feminist Theory in Perspective 486 Ipshita Chanda 26 Global Gay Formations amd Local Homosexualities 508 Katie King Part IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism 521 27 Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies 523 Gaurav Desai 28 Postcolonial Legality 540 Upendra Baxi 29 Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm? 556 Bruce Robbins Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies after 9/11 574 Sangeeta Ray Index 584

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Book Synopsis* Brings together well--established contributors and emergent scholars in postcolonialism. * Presents essays in dialogue with each other to create a controversial collection that examines the current state of postcolonial studies.Trade Review"Taken together, the diverse contributions to this book represent a sustained attempt to bring postcolonial criticism into a dialogue with some of the most pressing and enduring issues of our times. I cannot think of any other book that helps us to see so clearly where postcolonial criticism is headed." Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago "This volume is a fine demonstration of the inexhaustible connectivity of postcolonialism-as-critical-thinking – not only across academic disciplines and sociopolitical formations but also across generations of scholars with divergent intellectual practices. For anyone concerned with this major field of knowledge, it will prove a stimulating and rewarding read." Rey Chow, Brown University "This much needed collection indicates the continuing significance of postcolonial discourse today and its complex relationship to fields such as critical race theory, ethnic studies, and disability studies. The wide-ranging discussions will make this volume particularly useful to scholars committed to cross-cultural exchanges." Sangeeta Ray, University of MarylandTable of ContentsList of Contributors vii Preface ix Acknowledgements x Introduction: Scale and Sensibility xi Ato Quayson and David Theo Goldberg 1 In Conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba 1 Edward Said 2 Speaking of Postcoloniality, in the Continuous Present: A Conversation 15 Homi Bhabha and John Comaroff 3 Resident Alien 47 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 4 Directions and Dead-ends in Postcolonial Studies 66 Benita Parry 5 Racial Rule 82 David Theo Goldberg 6 Racist Visions for the Twenty-first Century: On the Cultural Politics of the French Radical Right 103 Ann Laura Stoler 7 Breaking the Silence and a Break with the Past: African Oral Histories and the Transformations of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana 122 Anne Bailey 8 Forgotten Like a Bad Dream: Atlantic Slavery and the Ethics of Postcolonial Memory 143 Barnor Hesse 9 Connectivity, and the Fate of the Unconnected 174 Olu Oguibe 10 Towards ReConciliation: The Post-Colonial Economy of Giving 184 Pal Ahluwalia 11 The Economy of Ideas: Colonial Gift and Postcolonial Product 205 Zane Ma-Rhea 12 Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Postcolonial Writing 217 Ato Quayson 13 Theorizing Disability 231 Rosemarie Garland Thomson 14 Nature, History, and the Failure of Language: The Problem of the Human in Post-Apartheid South Africa 270 John K. Noyes 15 Passing as Korean American 282 Wendy Ann Lee 16 Myths of East and West: Intellectual Property Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong 294 Eve Darian-Smith 17 A Flexible Foundation: Constructing A Postcolonial Dialogue 320 Dawn Duncan 18 Linguists and Postcolonial Literature: Englishes in the Classroom 334 Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope 19 Post-Scriptum 349 François Vergès Index 359

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Book Synopsisaeo Includes a new chapter examining the break up of the Russian empire at the end of the Cold War. aeo Provides full coverage of the transfer of power in Hong Kong aeo Places decolonization in the context of 500 years of European global domination.Trade Review"I do find Chamberlain a very good introductory book to the subject of decolonization. It is just right for American freshmen. It is very well organised." William Cohen, IndianaTable of ContentsOutline Chronology. Maps. Introduction. Part I: The Background:. 1. First Colonial Responses. Part II: The British Empire: Asia:. 2. India. 3. Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Part III: The British Empire: Africa:. 4. Ghana. 5. Nigeria. 6. Sierra Leone and The Gambia. 7. East Africa (Uganda, Tankanyika and Zanzibar). 8. Kenya. 9. South Central Africa (the Rhodesias and Nyasaland). Part IV: The British Empire: Outposts: . 10. The Caribbean. 11. The Mediterranean. 12. The 'Daughters'. Part V: The Commonwealth:. Part VI: The French Empire: . 13. North Africa. 14. Black Africa and Madagascar. 15. Indochina. Part VII: The Empires of the Smaller European Powers: . 16. The Dutch Empire. 17. The Belgian Empire. 18. The Italian Empire. 19. The Spanish Empire. 20. The Portuguese Empire. 21. The Russian Empire. Conclusion. Guide to Further Reading. References. Index.

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