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Cambridge University Press The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee
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Cambridge University Press Humanism and America An Intellectual History of English Colonisation 15001625 67 Ideas in Context Series Number 67
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Cambridge University Press Colonial Lives Across the British Empire
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Cambridge University Press Slavery Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic
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Cambridge University Press Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World
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Cambridge University Press The Cosmopolitan Imagination
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Cambridge University Press African Activists in a Decolonising World
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Cambridge University Press African Activists in a Decolonising World
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Cambridge University Press Arming Black Consciousness
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Cambridge University Press Transition Imaginaries
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Cambridge University Press Decolonial Deep Mapping
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Cambridge University Press Through the IndiaChina Border
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Cambridge University Press West African Countries and Peoples British and Native
Book SynopsisIn West African Countries and Peoples, published in 1868, Sierra Leone-born doctor James Africanus Beale Horton (18351883) refutes derogatory Victorian racial ideas about Africans. He was also considered an early proponent of African independence because he examines the potential of self-government almost 100 years before decolonisation.Table of ContentsPart I. West African Countries and Peoples, and the Negro's Place in Nature: 1. Description of the original and uncivilized state of the native tribes; 2. The origin, dangers, and progressive development of the Liberian Republic; 3. Exposition of erroneous views respecting the African; 4. False theories of modern anthropologists; 5. Some anatomical accounts of Negro physique; 6. The progressive advancement of the Negro race under civilizing influence; Part II. African Nationality: 7. General observations: self-government of the Gambia; 8. Self-government of Sierra Leone: Kingdom of Sierra Leone; 9. Self-government of the Gold Coast; 10. Self-government of the Gold Coast: Kingdom of Fantee; 11. Self-government of the Gold Coast: Republic of Accra; 12. Self-government of Lagos and its interior countries: Kingdom of the Akus; 13. Empire of the Eboes; Part III. Requirements of the Various Colonies and Settlements: 14. Requirements of Sierra Leone; 15. Requirements of the Gambia; 16. Requirements of the Gold Coast; 17. Requirements of Lagos; Some remarks on the Republic of Liberia; 18. Concluding remarks; advice to the rising generation in West Africa; Index.
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Cambridge University Press W. E. B. Du Bois International Thought
Book SynopsisW. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. While he is best known for his writings on themes of Black social and political life in the United States, this volume highlights his critical insights into empire and global politics.Table of ContentsDemocracy and Empire: An introduction to the international thought of W. E. B. Du Bois select chronology of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois; 1. The present outlook for the dark races of mankind (1900); 2. To the nations of the world (1900); 3. The African roots of war (1915); 4. Of the culture of white folk (1917); 5. Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to President Woodrow Wilson (1918); 6. To the world (Manifesto of the second Pan-African congress) (1921); 7. Worlds of color (1925); 8. Liberia and rubber (1925); 9. Liberia, the League and the United States (1933); 10. Where do we go from here? Address to the Rosenwald economic conference (1933); 11. Inter-Racial implications of the Ethiopian crisis: A Negro view (1935); 12. The clash of colour: Indians and American Negroes (1936); 13. The union of colour (1936); 14. What Japan has Done (1937); 15. Black Africa tomorrow (1938); 16. The realities in Africa: European profit or Negro development? (1943); 17. Prospect of a world without race conflict (1944); 18. Colonies and moral responsibility (1946); 19. A cup of Cocoa and chocolate drops (1946); 20. An Appeal to the world: A statement of denial of human rights to minorities, Introduction (1947); 21. Colonies as cause of war: Address to the world peace congress, Paris (1949); 22. On the West Indies (1952); 23. To the world peace council, Budapest (1953); 24. Colonialism and the Russian revolution (1956); Index.
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The University of Chicago Press The Common Cause
Book SynopsisIlluminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual discipline.Trade Review"Drawing on an unusual mix of archives, and moving fluidly between dynamic analysis and vivid historical narrative, this study is a major contribution to current debates on the relation of ethics to politics. An important and original book." (Amanda Anderson, Brown University)"
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University of Chicago Press Hong Kong Migrant Lives Landscapes and Journeys
Book SynopsisIn 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city's status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. This book presents a tour of Hong Kong city's postcolonial urban landscape.
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Random House USA Inc Revolutionary Spring
Book SynopsisNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward “Refreshingly original . . . Familiar characters are given vibrancy and previously unknown players emerge from the shadows.”—The Times (UK)As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to significant changes that continue to shape our world today. These battles for the future were fought with one eye kept squarely on the past: The men and women of 1848 saw the urgent challenges of their world as shaped profoundly by the past, and saw
£34.00
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group On Savage Shores
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Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd The Last Heroes
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£14.20
Gill Green Against Green The Irish Civil War
Book SynopsisMichael Hopkinson’s Green Against Green has long been established as the definitive study of the Irish civil war. Widely praised and frequently cited as the most authoritative work on the subject, it continues to hold its place as one of the finest works in modern Irish history.
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Beacon Press Gandhi An Autobiography The Story of My
Book SynopsisMohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century.In a new foreword, noted peace expert and teacher Sissela Bok urges us to adopt Gandhi's attitude of experimenting, of tesing what will and will not bear close scrutiny, what can and cannot be adapted to new circumstances,in order to bring about change in our own lives and communities. All royalties earned on this book are paid to the Navajivan Trust, founded by Gandhi, for use in carrying on his work.
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Michigan State University Press Essays in French Colonial History Proceedings of
Book SynopsisOn 31 May-3 June 1995, more than 200 participants gathered in Sydney and at Fortress Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, for the 21st annual conference of the French Colonial Historical Society. Essays in French Colonial History contains seventeen of the best articles presented at this meeting.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press The Documentary History of the Ratification of
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press The Documentary History of the Ratification of
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary
Book SynopsisThis new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory.Trade Review"This dictionary is highly recommended for libraries in higher education that offer courses in colonial and post-colonial history and programmes in history or political science. It also has the unique feature of being affordable for students who would like their own copy or for faculty that wish to recommend it for a Languages and literature Reference Reviews textbook supplement at a time when textbook prices are on the rise." (Reference Reviews 2016)Table of ContentsLits of terms vi Acknowledgements ix Preface x Dictionary 1 References 170 Terms aboriginal 1 abrogation 2 Adivasi 3 Afro-Europe 4 agency 5 alterity 6 ambivalence 8 anthropology (colonial) 9 apartheid 11 appropriation 12 archive (colonial) 13 arithmetic (colonial) 14 assimilado 15 barbarian/barbaric 16 Black Atlantic 17 black consciousness 19 cannibal 21 captivity narratives 22 Carib 23 cartography 23 catachresis 25 citizenship (cultural) 26 citizenship (ecological) 27 census 27 centre and margin 28 chutneyfication 29 colony/colonialism 30 colonial discourse 32 Commonwealth Literature 34 comprador colonialism 35 conquistador 36 contrapuntal reading 36 cosmopolitanism 37 cosmopolitanism (vernacular) 38 Creole/creolization 39 cultural imperialism 41 Dalit 43 Dark Continent 44 decolonization 45 dependency complex 47 diaspora 48 discovery 51 dislocation/displacement 52 double consciousness 52 e-Empire 55 ecological ethnicity 55 ecological imperialism 57 education (colonial) 57 effeminacy 59 Empire – new figurations of 60 Enlightenment (European) 61 environmentalism 62 epidermalization 64 epistemic violence 65 eroticization 66 essentialism 67 ethnicity 69 ethnocide 70 ethnography (colonial) 70 ethnopsychiatry (colonial) 71 Eurocentrism 73 evangelicalism (colonial) 74 exile 75 exoticism 76 exploitation colony 77 exploration (colonial) 77 feminism (Islamic) 79 fetish/phobia 80 filiation/affiliation 80 First World 81 Fourth World 81 geographical morality 83 geography 83 globe 85 globalization 85 hegemony 87 homonationalism 88 humanism (European) 88 humanitarianism 90 hybridity 91 imaginative geography 93 imperialism 94 indentured labour 95 infantilization 95 kala pani (‘Black Water’) 97 lactification 98 liminality 98 lusotropicalism 99 magical realism 100 Manichean allegory 101 masculinity (imperial) 102 mestizo/a 102 mimicry 103 miscegenation 104 multiculturalism 106 national allegory 108 nationalism (as discourse) 109 native 112 Native Informant 112 nativism 113 Negritude 114 neocolonialism 115 New World 116 Occidentalism 117 orality 117 Orientalism 118 Ornamentalism 120 picturesque (as colonialimperial aesthetic) 121 postcolonialism 122 postcoloniality 124 postcolony 125 postnational 126 primitivism 126 provincializing 127 race 129 refugee 130 re-orientalism 131 representation (colonial) 132 Requerimiento 134 reverse colonization 134 secularism/post-secularism 136 settler colonialism 137 situated knowledge 138 slavery 139 stereotyping 140 strategic essentialism 141 subaltern 143 subjectivity (of Europeans, colonial period) 146 subjectivity (of natives, colonial period) 148 sublime (as colonial aesthetic) 149 syncretism 150 terra incognita 152 terra nullius 153 testimonio 154 text/textuality (colonial) 155 Third World 156 torrid zones 157 transculturation 158 transnationalism 160 tricontinentalism 161 tropicality 161 universalism 163 vernacular 165 whiteness/white studies 167 World Literature 168 worlding 169
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WW Norton & Co The Revolutionary Temper Paris 17481789
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of worldwide acclaim.Trade Review"This captivating history of the decades leading up to the French Revolution offers a populist account of a fervent political moment. Darnton…immerse[s] readers in what agitated Parisians read, wore, ate and sang on the way to toppling the monarchy of Louis XVI." -- New York Times Book Review"What did Parisians think and gossip, sing and obsess about over the decades before the storming of the Bastille? In The Revolutionary Temper, Robert Darnton paints a sumptuous mural of the eighteenth-century mind. With the Encyclopédie, with manned balloons in the air, reason seemed on a roll. With posters, pamphlets, and public readings, the written word appeared supreme. A few vicious libels, some stock market manipulation, a lurid adultery trial, one notorious diamond necklace, any number of court intrigues, skyrocketing bread prices, and plunging temperatures combined, among other elements, to shake a nation to its core. A rich, beautifully crafted book that plants the reader in a Paris that feels at all times electric." -- Stacy Schiff, author of The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams"Standing at the summit of Robert Darnton’s towering intellectual career, The Revolutionary Temper plunges the reader into the coffee shops, workrooms, and alleys of pre-revolutionary Paris. Following the traces of songs and rumors, insults and discontent, Darnton allows us to eavesdrop, almost miraculously, on whispers nearly two and a half centuries old. Here is the hive mind of ordinary people in extraordinary times, as they shake loose the thought and feeling of ages past, and decide—slowly, and then all at once—to begin the world anew." -- Jane Kamensky, author of A Revolution in Color"A page-turner on the 40 years before the fall of the Bastille." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Darnton’s panoramic vision is rendered in lucid and vigorous prose, with a consistent focus on the day-to-day communications and emotions of regular people. It’s an enthralling exploration of the psychology of political change." -- Publishers Weekly
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PublicAffairs Empireworld
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Westholme Publishing Journal of the American Revolution 2023: Annual
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Westholme Publishing Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank
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WW Norton & Co Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of
Book SynopsisFeatured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Kennedy).Trade Review"The book is a tour de force of close textual analysis." -- Gordon S. Wood - New York Review of Books"Our Declaration is an artful, often elegiac meditation on the meaning of Jefferson's famous words for our time. Allen brings the analytical skills of a philosopher, the voice of a gifted memorialist, and the spirit of a soulful humanist to the task at hand, and manages to do something quite rare, find new meaning in Jefferson’s understanding of equality." -- Joseph J. Ellis, author of Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence"Our Declaration sets forth a bold thesis… Allen’s passion for each of the Declaration’s 1,337 words is admirable." -- Steven B. Smith - New York Times Book Review"This wise and rich book is what we need in these troubled times—a robust and persuasive defense of equality and liberty grounded in our national scripture. Danielle Allen is a towering political philosopher of the democratic art of being and a force for good!" -- Cornel West, author of Democracy Matters: Winning the War on Imperialism"Danielle Allen celebrates the Declaration of Independence by reading it closely—line by line, comma by comma—and invites her fellow citizens to do the same. The result is a richly rewarding book that demonstrates the pleasures of slow reading, the power of words to shape events, and the importance of equality to democratic life." -- Michael Sandel, author of What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets"Danielle Allen's poignant and personal reflection on the Declaration of Independence is a rare and singular work…[S]he has written a book that throws open a door to a large circle of readers: anyone with a stake in democracy. Her observations about the importance of language in building and sustaining a republic are especially resonant and worthy of the towering rhetoric of the Declaration. Our Declaration holds the promise of both discovery and rediscovery whether you've never read the Declaration or have memorized each of its 1,337 words." -- Ann Marie Lipinski, curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University"Our Declaration is a primer on all that we have been missing… Not just an invaluable civics lesson but also a poignant personal memoir… Allen is an evangelist for this romantic moment in American history when men of uncommon vision and political deftness stated their case and listed their grievances against the most powerful nation on Earth." -- Thane Rosenbaum - The Washington Post"An astounding new book that should reinvigorate public understanding of the founding document of the United States… Reading Ms. Allen makes reading the Declaration meaningful and enjoyable—a powerful enough lesson it is't own right." -- Sarah J. Purcell - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"At once simple, sharp and deftly executed." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Baraka Books Rebel Priest in the Time of Tyrants: Mission to
Book SynopsisClaude Lacaille witnessed up close the oppression and poverty in Haiti, Ecuador, and Chile where dictators and predatory imperialists ruled. Like other advocates of Liberation Theology, he saw it as his duty to join the resistance, particularly against Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet. But the dictators were not alone, as they often enjoyed the support of the Vatican, sometimes tacit, but then brazenly open under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. He began writing this book in Chile where thousands shed blood simply because they defended victims of dictatorship, opposed rapacious policies and economic doctrines, consoled the downtrodden, and breathed new hope and courage into a people who desperately needed it. These men and women remain an inspiration for those who still believe in a better world. This is the story of Claude Lacaille's experience from 1965 through 1986 in the slums and squats in the Caribbean and South America and also what it really means to have a preferential option for the poor. His book shows how liberation theology and spirituality enkindled the life and the work of an ordinary Quebec missionary.Trade ReviewThe secret lies in the metaphor, the lovely 'closing the windows that John XXIII had opened to let fresh air in.' Because the entire book is beautifully written, and admirably translated by Casey Roberts, making its thoughtful points throughout in wonderful, poetic language . . . . As Lacaille recounts these colourful missions, the book really does come to life. There is a potted political history of South America. There are masses in Creole, touching anecdotes, and crises of faith ('People are starving to death and I’m singing masses!'). There are visits to Quebec’s Inuit and the potato fields of New Brunswick. And, most strikingly, there is wrenching poverty, political prisoners, terror, repression, activism, and resistance in Chile. A fascinating, inspiring read." —Peter McCambridge, quebecreads.com"The author’s accounts of his ministry contain some humour (soldiers who mistake the Bible for a local revolutionary document), much sadness, and tragedy more real than any Hollywood narrative . . . . Lacaille’s autobiography has all the ingredients of great fiction, which makes it more astonishing as truth." —Matthew R. Anderson, Montreal Review of Books"Lacaille’s story is at times harrowing. At other times, it is heroic, although he would most certainly deny any heroism . . . . Rebel Priest is a valuable document. It provides a personal story of a movement in the Catholic Church that stood up against monopoly capitalism and dictatorship." —Ron Jacobs, counterpunch.org
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Fonthill Media Ltd The Grandest Larceny: The Foundation of Israel
Book SynopsisA unique event-the handing over of an entire country by another that did not own it, to a people who simply laid claim to it by virtue of their myths and traditions-happened in 1917 when the British 'gave' Palestine to the Jews via the Balfour Declaration. The Palestinian Arabs never accepted the theft of their land but have been powerless to resist the weight of support for the Jews given by the most powerful nations. Despite the foundation of Israel in 1948, the region has been plagued by wars, injustice, and a vast refugee 'problem' which has dominated the lives of millions. Today, the future of the Palestinians is dire and seemingly inevitable. In this thorough new examination, J. E. Thomas delves deep into the foundations of the issue, analysing the Zionist claim to the Holy Land in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and their ruthless campaign to dispossess Palestinian Arabs-a campaign that continues to this day.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; A Note on Spelling and Quotations; Introduction; Myths and the Makers of Myths; The Political Art of Lies and Ambiguity: The McMahon Letters and the Sykes-Picot Agreement; After Balfour: 'The document is undoubtedly the starting point of the whole trouble'; Escalation: 'The Mandate ... itself had lighted the fire'; The British Government Disregards the Law: 'No one can give what they don't have: nemo dat quod non habet'; The Israeli Prime Minister Sets the Goal: 'And if dozens of Arabs get killed-that's exactly what we want'; Terrorism, Violence, and the Expansion of the State; New Lamps For Old? The Treatment of Palestinians and the 'New Antisemitism'; Glossary; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.
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Four Courts Press Ltd Peadar Cowan (1903-62): Westmeath GAA
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Wordwell The Split: From Treaty to Civil War, 1921-23
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V&R Unipress Verwobene Geschichte - Verflochtenes Gedachtnis?:
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£64.22
Museum Tusculanum Press National Identity Politics and Postcolonial
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£999.99
NIAS Press Recruit to Revolution: Adventure and Politics
Book SynopsisThis gripping memoir narrates the formative years of the Indonesian nation through the lens of English adventurer John Coast. After years in Japanese POW camps where he first met Indonesians and learned Malay, this young British officer made his way back to Southeast Asia in order to help Indonesian Republicans in their struggle against Dutch rule. In time he became a trusted friend and employee of the new nation. John Coast's life story is entangled with the history of the revolution: blockade-running; broadcasting from the besieged rebel capital; advocating for the Republicans to the press and politicians abroad; and having long discussions with President Sukarno. Later, John Coast and Sukarno's shared love of Balinese music and dance bore fruit in the famous Dancers of Bali tour of the West End and Broadway, which in turn paved the way for Coast's career as a leading international theatrical agent for the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar and Mario Lanza.
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NUS Press Central Banking as State Building: Policymakers
Book SynopsisFrom its creation in 1949 until the 1960s, the Central Bank of the Philippines dominated industrial policy by means of exchange controls, becoming a symbol of nationalism for a newly independent state. The pre-war Philippine National Bank was closely linked to the colonial administration and plagued by corruption scandals. As the country moved toward independence, ambitious young politicians, colonial bureaucrats, and private sector professionals concluded that economic decolonization required a new bank at the heart of the country’s finances in order to break away from the individuals and institutions that dominated the colonial economy.Positioning this bank within broader political structures, Yusuke Takagi concludes that the Filipino policy makers behind the Central Bank worked not for vested interests associated with colonial or neo-colonial rule but for structural reform based on particular policy ideas.
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NUS Press Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the
Book SynopsisAfter independence in 1957, the Malay monarchy was compelled to embrace Westminster-style constitutional monarchy, under which the role of the monarch is symbolic and affairs of the nation are run by Parliament and the executive branch. Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the Socio-Political Development of Malay Kingship, traces the history of the Malay rulers from the late colonial period to the first decade of the 21st century, considering the implications of the decline of the Malay rulers under colonial rule, the role of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya in defining postwar Malay identity. A key element of that identity was the relation between the Malays and their Rulers, and UMNO - the United Malays National Organisation - positioned itself the ""official"" voice of the Malays and the Rulers. The postwar settlement underwent a significant change after the shocking outcome of the March 2008 General Election weakened UMNO's hold on power. Subsequently, the Malay Rulers have ""reinvented"" themselves as active players in the affairs of the nation and have recovered some of their traditional rights. This book describes socio-political developments since the departure of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad have that worked in favor of a royal resurgence, and shows how the rulers have become a power to be reckoned with.
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