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Book SynopsisA photo-essay which brings together the powerful street art visible today on the walls of Belfast with the words of the Irish patriots who inspired them.

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Book SynopsisNow fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, and gives an overview of the cultural developments that have made Latin America a source of fascination for the world. 'A first-rate work of history ... His cool, scholarly gaze and synthesizing intelligence demystify a part of the world peculiarly prone to myth-making ... This book covers an enormous amount of ground, geographically and culturally' Tony Gould, Independent on SundayTable of ContentsThe Penguin History of Latin AmericaPrefacePart One: The Age of Empire1. Discovery and Conquest2. Indians and Iberians3. Spain in America4. The Spanish Indies5. Colonial BrazilPart Two: The Challenge of the Modern World6. Reform, Crisis and Independence7. The Quest for Order: Conservatives and Liberals in the Nineteenth Century8. 'Civilization and Barbarism': Literary and Cultural Developments IPart Three: The Twentieth Century9. Nationalism and Development: An Overview10. Mexico: Revolution and Stability11. Brazil: Order and Progress12. Cuba: Dependency, Nationalism and Revolution13. Argentina: The Long Decline14. Chile: Democracy, Revolution and Dictatorship15. Identity and Modernity: Literary and Cultural Developments IIPart Four: Towards a New Era16. Globalization and Reform: An OverviewStatistical AppendixFurther ReadingMapsGlossary of Key TermsIndex of SubjectsIndex of Names

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHYA narrative of startling originality As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one' SAM DALRYMPLE, SPECTATORRebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence.Of the seven, four were British, two American, and one Irish. Four men, three women. Before and after being jailed or deported they did remarkable and pioneering work in a variety of fields: journalism, social reform, education, organic agriculture, environmentalism.This book tells their stories, each renegade motivated by idealism and genuine sacrifice; each connected to Gandhi, though some as acolytes where others found endless infuriation in his views; each understanding they woulTrade Review‘A narrative of startling originality … his excitement at discovering a forgotten chapter of Indian history is contagious … As discussions of Britain’s colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one’Sam Dalrymple, Spectator ‘Fascinating and provocative … Guha organises his material expertly and presents it clearly and stylishly, illuminating an aspect of Raj history which is often forgotten or neglected but which is nonetheless crucial for an understanding both of present-day India and of Britons’ complex and ambivalent past relationship to this ‘jewel’ in their collective crown. This superb book does them justice, as well as adding a new dimension to the histories both of subject India and of imperial Britain – and being a thoroughly good read’Literary Review ‘Guha has done well to remind us of these forgotten stories, all the more as India, like much of the world, is becoming more xenophobic and intolerant, believing all the virtues lie in national frontiers’Irish Times ‘Illuminating and engaging … Guha’s wide-ranging research and lucid narration brings to life these men and women … Rebels Against the Raj, however, makes a larger, more important and incisive point. Guha calls the lives and work of these rebels a morality tale for the world we now inhabit – a world incandescent with xenophobia and jingoism, and full of contempt for thoughts and ideas that a culture can imbibe from outside its borders’New Statesman ‘Eminently readable and dazzling … Painstakingly researched, this is history writing at its best. It is indeed a masterly study of hitherto neglected western figures of modern India and opens a new way of engaging with the complex fault-lines between nationalism and imperialism, between India and the West … Guha’s outstanding work … couldn’t be more relevant. Every Indian should read this book’The Tribune

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHYA narrative of startling originality As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one' SAM DALRYMPLE, SPECTATORRebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence.Of the seven, four were British, two American, and one Irish. Four men, three women. Before and after being jailed or deported they did remarkable and pioneering work in a variety of fields: journalism, social reform, education, organic agriculture, environmentalism.This book tells their stories, each renegade motivated by idealism and genuine sacrifice; each connected to Gandhi, though some as acolytes where others found endless infuriation in his views; each understanding they woulTrade Review‘A narrative of startling originality … his excitement at discovering a forgotten chapter of Indian history is contagious … As discussions of Britain’s colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one’Sam Dalrymple, Spectator ‘Fascinating and provocative … Guha organises his material expertly and presents it clearly and stylishly, illuminating an aspect of Raj history which is often forgotten or neglected but which is nonetheless crucial for an understanding both of present-day India and of Britons’ complex and ambivalent past relationship to this ‘jewel’ in their collective crown. This superb book does them justice, as well as adding a new dimension to the histories both of subject India and of imperial Britain – and being a thoroughly good read’Literary Review ‘Guha has done well to remind us of these forgotten stories, all the more as India, like much of the world, is becoming more xenophobic and intolerant, believing all the virtues lie in national frontiers’Irish Times ‘Illuminating and engaging … Guha’s wide-ranging research and lucid narration brings to life these men and women … Rebels Against the Raj, however, makes a larger, more important and incisive point. Guha calls the lives and work of these rebels a morality tale for the world we now inhabit – a world incandescent with xenophobia and jingoism, and full of contempt for thoughts and ideas that a culture can imbibe from outside its borders’New Statesman ‘Eminently readable and dazzling … Painstakingly researched, this is history writing at its best. It is indeed a masterly study of hitherto neglected western figures of modern India and opens a new way of engaging with the complex fault-lines between nationalism and imperialism, between India and the West … Guha’s outstanding work … couldn’t be more relevant. Every Indian should read this book’The Tribune

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Book SynopsisThomas Paine was born in1737 at Thetford, Norfolk in England, as a son of a Quaker. He immigrated to America in 1774. There he published works criticising the slavery and supporting American independence. He became very popular but returned to England where he became involved in the French Revolution. After that he returned to America where he died in 1802.Isaac Kramnick is Professor of Government at Cornell University and has edited of The Federalist Papers and the Thomas Paine Reader.Table of ContentsBackground to the American Revolution, 1776 from staymaker to revolutionary - the life and career of Tom Paine; the argument of common sense; Bourgeois radicalism - the ideology of Tom Paine; Paine and the American bicentennial. Common sense: introduction; of the origin and design of government in general of monarchy and hereditary succession; thoughts on the present state of American affairs; of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflexions. Appendix: to the representatives of the religious society of the people called Quakers.

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Book SynopsisThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.

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Book SynopsisEd Moloney has been Northern Ireland Editor of both the Irish Times and the Sunday Tribune. He has written for a wide range of newspapers and magazines in Ireland, the UK and the USA. In 1999 he was Irish Journalist of the Year. He currently lives in New York.

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Book SynopsisA gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland''s history - from Charles Townshend, author of Easter 1916TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country. The damage done, the betrayals and grim compromises put the new nation into a state of trauma for at least a generation, but at a nearly unacceptable cost the struggle ended: a new republic was born.Charles Townshend''s Easter 1916 opened up the astonishing events around the Rising for a new generation and in The Republic he deals, with the same unflinchingly wish to get to the truth behind the legend, with the most critical years in Ireland''s history. There has been a great temptation to view these years through the prisms of martyrology and good-and-evil. The picture painted by Townshend is far more nuanced and sceptical - but also never loses sight of the ordinary forms of heroism performed by Irish men and women trapped in extraordinary times.''The author has devoted his life to the study of Irish history and this huge work is the pinnacle of his labours'' John Banville on Easter 1916Trade ReviewElectric ... [a] magisterial and essential book -- Roy Foster * Irish Times *[A] tour de force ... wonderful ... brilliantly written history ... Townshend's book can only inspire admiration -- John Lee * Irish Mail on Sunday *Highly detailed and rich ... [a] magisterial and judicious narrative ... this must surely be one of the definitive texts on this period of Anglo-Irish history -- Mary Kenny * Literary Review *Charles Townshend's monumental work [is] bold in ambition, scope and execution ... a work of broad and confident understanding, characterised by a uniform care in its approach to complex and controversial material ... An intensely compelling and often discomfiting narrative, which candidly explores four years of personal and intimate violence * Tablet *Magisterial ... intensely gruelling but hugely impressive ... for people who prefer to know the facts ... [a] fine achievement of breathing new life into a subject that some historians might assume had already been done to death * Sunday Business Post *For those interested in a reliable and empathetic introduction to the topic, this is now the best place to start * BBC History Magazine *A great read ... it has certainly set a very high standard for others to measure up to -- Marianne Elliott * Times Higher Education *A well-sourced, severely objective account of the origins and courses of the wars that followed the Easter Rising * Irish Catholic *Charles Townshend's The Republic . . . nails the Irish revolutionary events of 1918-23 with his inimitable kind of forensic panache -- Roy Foster * Times Literary Supplement BOOKS OF THE YEAR *

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Book SynopsisGandhi''s non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. He feared the enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding of his quest for truth rooted in devotion to God. His attempts to get closer to this divine power led him to seek purity through simple living, dietary practices, celibacy, and a life without violence. This is not a straightforward narrative biography, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi offers his life story as a reference for those who would follow in his footsteps.

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Book SynopsisHuman history is a tale not just of constant change, but of perpetual restlessness. In Beneath Another Sky the esteemed historian Norman Davies embarks upon a journey round the world to show the layers of experience that underpin our present - and brilliantly complicate our view of the past. ''If you are someone, or know someone, who is romanced by stamps, or maps, or names, or journeys, or plaques, then I recommend this book to you. I loved it. It deserves a shelf of its own'' David Aaronovitch, The Times''Rich, thought-stirring and deeply engaging'' John Gray, New Statesman''Gripping, enthralling, a great read ... a fragrant stew of history, literature and travel spiced with digression, detective work and dabs of humour'' Sarah Wheeler, ObserverTrade ReviewIf you are someone, or know someone, who is romanced by stamps, or maps, or names, or journeys, or plaques - someone whose head is always popping up from the papers or a Radio 4 documentary with the words "did you know?" then I recommend this book to you. I loved it. It deserves a shelf of its own -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *A rich, thought-stirring and deeply engaging blend of travelogue, memoir and historical investigation -- John Gray * New Statesman *A performance that resists easy compartmentalisation ... This is clever and informative entertainment. -- Joad Raymond * BBC History Magazine *

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021''Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come'' Roderick Beaton, Times Literary SupplementIn the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon''s defeat in 1815, there was one cause that came to galvanize countless individuals across Europe and the United States: freedom for Greece.Mark Mazower''s wonderful new book recreates one of the most compelling, unlikely and significant events in the story of modern Europe. In the face of near impossible odds, the people of the villages, valleys and islands of Greece rose up against Sultan Mahmud II and took on the might of the imperial Ottoman armed forces, its Turkish cavalrymen, Albanian foot soldiers and the fearsome Egyptians. Despite the most terrible disasters, they helTrade ReviewThe Greek Revolution offers the best and fullest explanation, to date, for a series of events whose effects would change the entire geopolitics of Europe. Written with compassion and understanding for the human cost of that achievement, it deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come. -- Roderick Beaton * Times Literary Supplement *Exquisite detail, altogether impressive ... a cornucopia of revolution. -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times *Compelling and disturbing, enriched by many new sources and excellent colour illustrations, and paying attention to the role of Ottomans and Albanians as well as Greeks, Mazower's book will become the standard account of this crucial revolution. -- Philip Mansel * The Spectator *An engaging combination of fast-flowing narrative and insightful analysis. -- Tony Barber * Financial Times *Encyclopaedic ... superbly subtle and thorough. -- Julian Evans * Daily Telegraph *With vivid detail, impeccable scholarship and great nuance, Mazower shows how the modern idea of the nation emerges out of the complex, sometimes random and often messy interactions between a plurality of agents ... An illuminating account of both the unifying power of myths about the past, and the dangers inherent when such myths are connected to political reality. -- Lea Ypi * New Statesman *As the subtitle of Mark Mazower's new book maintains, events in Greece 200 years ago helped shape modern Europe. His elegant and rigorous account also holds lessons for modern geopolitics: about the galvanising effects of violence, the role of foreign intervention and the design flaws in dreams. * The Economist *An epic narrative, both scholarly, breathlessly page-turning and packed with hauntingly romantic characters. Few historians dig so deep or with such sympathy into what history felt like to those living through it ... anyone in search of an opera plot should scour these drama-packed pages. -- Noonie Minogue * The Tablet *Broad in scope and colorful in detail, this is a masterful portrait of a historic watershed. ... [A] sweeping history of Greece's 1821 war of independence against the Ottoman Empire. [Mazower] recounts the revolution's inception among Greek emigrés with an idealistic dream of Hellenic nationalism and its actuality as a murky, eight-year struggle fought mainly by peasants and warlords who were motivated less by patriotism than by religious hatred of Muslims, factional vendettas, and mercenary self-interest ... A lucid, elegantly written, and often gripping account. * Publishers Weekly *On the bicentennial of the Greek revolution, a prominent scholar tracks the historical detail and enormous international significance of the improbable, largely grassroots uprising against the Ottoman Empire. Mazower, a Columbia professor and winner of the Wolfson Prize for History who has written extensively about Greece and the Balkans, ably ties together the many disparate threads of this complex history of Greek independence. ... An elucidating history that is relevant to understanding the geopolitics of Greece today. * Kirkus Reviews *

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Book Synopsis''A superb book...genuinely innovative'' Jack Spence OBE, King''s College LondonOver the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency. This new view of those histories looks in particular at the relationship between territorial, economic, political and societal structures and human agency in the complex and sometimes confusing development of an independent Africa. The story starts well before the granting of independence to Ghana in 1957, but the book also looks at Africa in the closing decades of the old millennium and opening ones of the new. This is a book, too, about the history of the peoples of Africa and their struggle for economic development against the global economic straitjacket into which they were strapped by colonial rule and decolonisation. The importance of imposed or inherited structures, whether the global capitalist system, of which Africa is a subordinate part, or the artificial and often inappropriate state borders and political systems is discussed in the light of the exercise of agency by African peoples, political movements and leaders.Trade ReviewThis unusually accessible study of Africa's many histories since 1970 owes its distinctiveness to the author's career...a thoughtful, passionate account by a senior BBC journalist who spent three decades working on and in Africa. His intimacy with places and people give the book a grittiness that library research never provides. -- Richard Rathbone, Professor of African History, SOASA superb book...genuinely innovative, demonstrating a fine understanding of the role of structure and agency in the continent's 'many histories'. The argument will appeal to an audience seeking a convincing and well-researched account. -- Jack Spence, OBE, Professor of Diplomacy, King's College London

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Book Synopsis''This is a miracle of a book'' George Lamming''Compelling. Stuart Hall''s story is the story of an age'' Owen Jones ''Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial''This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and one of the leading intellectual lights of his age. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Jamaica, then still a British colony, Hall found himself caught between two worlds: the stiflingly respectable middle class in Kingston, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured themselves against the white planter elite; and working-class and peasant Jamaica, neglected and grindingly poor, though rich in culture, music and history. But as colonial rule was challenged, things began to change in Jamaica and across the world.When, in 1951, a scholarship took him across the Atlantic to Oxford University, Hall encountered other Caribbean writers and thinkers, from Sam Selvon and George Lamming to V. S. Naipaul. He also forged friendships with the likes of Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson, with whom he worked in the formidable political movement, the New Left, and developed his groundbreaking ideas on cultural theory. Familiar Stranger takes us to the heart of Hall''s struggle in post-war England: that of building a home and a life in a country where, rapidly, radically, the social landscape was transforming, and urgent new questions of race, class and identity were coming to light.Told with passion and wisdom, this is a story of how the forces of history shape who we are.Trade ReviewMuch more than a memoir, Familiar Stranger is a fascinating insight into how a life shapes a brilliant mind -- Andrea LevyThis is a miracle of a book -- George LammingCompelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age. He was a pioneer in the struggle for racial, cultural, and political liberation. He has transformed the way we think -- Owen JonesVivid... a subtle and subversive memoir of the end of Empire -- Colin Grant * Guardian *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this book for the rest of my life. -- Victoria Hislop * The Week *His new book - judicious, well-researched and commendably up-to-date - deserves to be the standard general history of modern Greece in English for years to come. * Financial Times *This book explores the history, not of a Greece of romantic or philhellenic imagination, but the reality of the country as it has become today. The empathy it evokes for the survival of modern Greek statehood against a recurring pattern of often existential crisis is all the more compelling, subtle and above all human in its many-sidedness. Beaton's account instantly becomes the single most outstanding treatment of its subject and shows us why - as Lord Palmerston expressed it succinctly for his own times - 'Greece' is an emotional word that still matters to contemporary society. -- Professor Robert HollandA wonderfully engaging narrative ... It is a superb achievement and to be recommended to anyone with even the most rudimentary interest -- Professor Kevin FeatherstoneA perceptive analysis of Greece's financial crisis, the embers of which continue to threaten to derail the single currency project of the EU * Country Life *Praise for Byron's War: Indispensable * Literary Review *

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Book SynopsisFor four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army''s massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Stannard begins with a portrait of the enormous richness and diversity of life in the Americas prior to Columbus''s fateful voyage in 1492. He then follows the path of genocide from the Indies to Mexico and Central and South America, then north to Florida, Virginia, and New England, and finally out across the Great Plains and Southwest to California and the North Pacific Coast. Stannard rTrade Reviewhighly informative book * Socialist Standard *vivid and relentless ... meticulous analysis ... a devastating reassessment of the Conquest as nothing less than a holy war * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsPrologue Part I: Before Columbus Part II: Pestilence and Genocide Part III: Sex, Race, and Holy War Appendixes Appendix I: On Pre-Columbian Settlement and Population Appendix II: On Racism and Genocide Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book Synopsis'To Try Her Fortune in London' considers white colonials as part of the colonial presence at the heart of the empire. Between 1870 and 1940 tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London. This title explores previously unexamined connections between whiteness, colonial status, gender, and modernity.Trade ReviewWoollacott's comprehensive study provides rich evidence that a newfound freedom and mobility allowed ambitious Australian women to have an influence in London disproportionate to their number, and this work will prove an influential contribution to our understanding of London, imperialism and the Australian abroad. * Urban History *This book is an important contribution to a growing literature on the international dimensions of the Australian women's movement, as well as the recent interest in relationships within the British Empire/Commonwealth. * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisRecent scholarship in political theory has focused on the treatment of colonialism in the writings of canonical thinkers such as Locke, Burke, Mill, Diderot, Tocqueville, Smith, and Kant, revealing the extent to which the subject of colonialism and imperialism dominated the minds of great thinkers as the colonial project took place. While such scholarship provides fascinating insight into the possible problems of enlightenment thought, it tends to ignore the voices of thinkers who spoke from the position of the colonized. Political Theories of Decolonization will fill a gap in postcolonial political critique by serving as an introduction to theorists who struggled with the question of how to found a new political order when the existing ideas and institutions were implicated in a history of domination. Looking at the writings of Gandhi, Ngugi, al-Afghani, and Mariategui, among several others, the authors aim to explain how the work of these thinkers engage in thematic continuities--conTrade ReviewOutstanding Academic Titles 2012, as selected by CHOICE Magazine (December 2012). * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction: Political Theory and Decolonization ; Chapter One Postcolonial Political Theory and the Problem of Foundations ; Chapter Two Islamic Political Thought and Imperialism ; Chapter Three Grounds of Resistance: Land as Revolutionary Foundation ; Chapter Four Self-Determination Reconsidered: Revolutions of Decolonization and Postcolonial Citizenship ; Chapter Five Colonialism and the State of Exception ; Chapter Six The Philosophy of Liberation ; Conclusion: Gandhi and the Critique of Western Civilization

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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 SynopsisTrade ReviewThis fantastic new book is a major contribution to the literature on colonialism and development. Owolabi addresses the puzzle of why the early colonies with planation slavery often ended up with relatively high levels of development. Owolabi skillfully uses multimethod tools to make an eye-opening argument that merits wide attention among social scientists and historians. * James Mahoney, Northwestern University *Olukunle Owolabi, in his eye-opening treatise, describes what generations of development economists did not see, namely that countries populated by slaves of forced settlement have brought peace, prosperity, and democracy far outpacing countries of colonial occupation. He then explains why, showing the returns to emancipation and citizenship. My hat off to Owolabi for opening our eyes to what has long been obscured by academic prejudices. * David D. Laitin, Stanford University *Owolabi demonstrates that forced-settlement colonies are a distinctive form of colonial rule, fostering economic and political trajectories that diverge from-and surpass-the trajectories of other formerly extractive colonies. This counter-intuitive finding offers an important corrective to usual understandings of colonialism and development. * John Gerring, Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin *In this book, Owolabi asks an intriguing question and, through an impressive multimethod analysis of several former empires, offers a compelling answer linked to the institutional legacies of colonialism. Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects is a must-read for any scholar interested in the long-term impact of colonialism. * Matthew Lange, Professor of Sociology, McGill University *A bold, provocative, and persuasive account of the lasting effects of colonial rule. Longue durée arguments are exceedingly difficult to make yet Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects delivers on its ambitious goal: to show the importance of emancipation during the colonial era for post-colonial development and democratization. * Adria Lawrence, author of Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire *This excellent book rethinks the consequences of extractive colonial institutions. Analyzing the importance of early legal rights, Owolabi explains the puzzle of why countries in the West Indies have experienced better development outcomes than those in West Africa. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in colonialism, development, and democracy. * Jack Paine, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University *This ambitious work will certainly shape the field of comparative political studies of the varied political impact of colonialism for years to come. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Forced Settlement, Colonial Occupation, and the Historical Roots of Divergent Development in the Global South 2. A Historical Overview of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South 3. Historical Institutionalism, Critical Junctures, and the Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation 4. A Global Statistical Analysis of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation: Colonial Institutions and Postcolonial Development 5. Comparing British Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation: Jamaica and Sierra Leone 6. Comparing Portuguese Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation: Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau 7. A Global Tour of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation under French Rule: From Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and Les Antilles to Algeria and Sub-Saharan Africa 8. Conclusions, Reflections, and Avenues for Future Research Bibliography Data Appendix 4.1 Data Appendix 4.2 Data Appendix 4.3 Data Appendix 4.4 Index

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Book SynopsisThe European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it became possible to imagine that the diverse peoples of Europe might be united in a single political community. The Pursuit of Europe tells the story of the evolution of the ''European project'', from the end of the Napoleonic Wars, which saw the earliest creation of a ''Concert of Europe'', right through to Brexit. The question was how, after centuries of internecine conflict, to create a united Europe while still preserving the political legal and cultural integrity of each individual nation. The need to find an answer to this question became more acute after two world wars had shown that if the nations of Europe were to continue to play a role in the world they could now only do so together. To achieve that, however, they had to be prepared to merge their zealously-guarded sovereign powers into a new form of trans-national constitutionalism. This, Trade ReviewPagden's comprehensive study is a sure guide in an increasingly crowded field, putting all the tools of the intellectual historian of deep historical and cultural understanding to best use. This is the best available historical account of European construction. * Hugh Drochon, Times Literary Supplement 14/04/2022 *[A] bold new book ... Readers of Pagden's earlier books will recognise in The Pursuit of Europe the characteristic grand sweeps, sparkling prose and mission to use the past to shed light on the present. * David Armitage, Literary Review *A valuable and important read. * Brian Maye, Irish Times *Pagden is surely the perfect man to delve into the complex roots of the European idea...[this is a] wonderfully wide-ranging study. * Giles MacDonogh, writer and historian *[A] provocative book well worth reading. * Peter McPhee, Australian Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Remaking the Great European Family 2: The Birth of the Nation 3: The Scramble for the World 4: The War that Will end War 5: A New Order for Europe 6: Refashioning Europe 7: The Once and Future Europe Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the ends of empire in the twentieth century. The volume''s contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, with chapters analysing the empires of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China and Japan. The Handbook combines broad, regional treatments of decolonization with chapter contributions constructed around particular themes or social issues. It considers how the history of decolonization is being rethought as a result of the rise of the ''new'' imperial history, and its emphasis on race, gender, and culture, as well as the more recent growth of interest in histories of globalization, transnational history, and histories of migration and diaspora, humanitarianism and development, and human rights.The Handbook, in other words, seeks to identify the processes and commonalities of experience that make decolonization a unique historical phenomenon with a lasting resonance. In light of decades of historical and social scientific scholarship on modernization, dependency, neo-colonialism, ''failed state'' architectures and post-colonial conflict, the obvious question that begs itself is ''when did empires actually end?'' In seeking to unravel this most basic dilemma the Handbook explores the relationship between the study of decolonization and the study of globalization. It connects histories of the late-colonial and post-colonial worlds, and considers the legacies of empire in European and formerly colonised societies.Trade ReviewThere are several overarching themes to the work: historicising decolonisation, unpicking the deeply complex relationship between decolonisation and globalisation - decolonisation was both a globalised and a globalising force, especially in the context of the Cold War - and shedding light upon the integral role played by asymmetric violence in decolonisation processes. This wide-ranging approach leads the reader on an odyssey through political thought, guerrilla warfare, architecture, cinema, and memory, to name but a few; bringing many diverse threads of research into a satisfyingly comprehensive volume * David Kenrick, Diplomacy & Statecraft *This impressive volume deserves to be essential reading for all students of decolonisation and, considering as it does an unusually broad range of empires, offers an original and refreshing corrective to many of the classic texts on decolonisation * Peter Brooke, History *The range of topics covered is impressive and reflects the directions being followed in the existing scholarship. It is particularly good to see that the current lively fields of humanitarianism, development history, colonial violence, and the intersections between Cold War politics and decolonization are well represented. The material on refugees and migration speaks to contemporary political concerns persuasively and deftly * Charlotte Lydia Walker, The Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking decolonization: A New Research Agenda for the 21st Century Robert Gerwarth: 1918 and the End of Europe's Land Empires Ryan Gingeras: An Empire Unredeemed: Tracing the Ottoman State's Path towards Collapse Part I: National Perspectives 1: Sarah E. Stockwell: Britain 2: Emmanuelle Saada: France: the longue dur&eacutee of French Decolonization 3: Andreas Eckert: Germany 4: Nicola Labanca: Exceptional Italy? The Many Ends of the Italian Colonial Empire 5: Matthew G. Stanard: Apr&egraves nous, le d&eacuteluge: Belgium, Decolonization, and the Congo 6: Norrie MacQueen: Portugal 7: Alexey Miller: The Collapse of the Romanov Empire 8: Marc-William Palen: Empire by Imitation? US Economic Imperialism within a British World System 9: Louise Conrad Young: Rethinking Empire: Lessons from Imperial and Post Imperial Japan 10: Tehyun Ma: China Part II: Regional Perspectives 11: Joya Chatterji: Decolonization in South Asia: The Long View 12: Christopher Goscha: Global Wars and Decolonization in East and South East Asia, 1927-1954 13: Sylvie Th&eacutenault: The End of Empire in the Maghreb: The Common Heritage and Distinct Destinies of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia 14: Frederick Cooper: Decolonization in Tropical Africa 15: Spencer Mawby: The Caribbean 16: James Mark and Quinn Slobodian: Eastern Europe 17: Robert S. G. Fletcher: Decolonization and the Arid World 18: Marieke Bloembergen: The Open Ends of the Dutch Empire and the Indonesian Past: Sites, Scholarly Networks, and Moral Geographies of Greater India across Decolonization Part III: Thematic Perspectives 19: Brad Simpson: Self-determination and Decolonization 20: Christopher J. Lee: Anti-colonialism 21: Andrew Thompson: Unravelling the Relationships between Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Decolonization: Time for a Radical Rethink? 22: Piero Gleijeses: Decolonization and Cold War 23: Martin Thomas: Violence, Insurgency, and Ends of Empire 24: Barbara Bush: Nationalism, Development, and Welfare Colonialism: Gender and the Dynamics of Decolonization 25: Miguel Bandeira Jer&oacutenimo: Repressive Developmentalism: Idioms, Repertoires, and Trajectories in Late Colonialism 26: David Motadel: Islamic Revolutionaries and the End of Empire 27: Panikos Panayi: Refugees and the End of Empire Part IV: Legacies and Memories 28: Elizabeth Buettner: Postcolonial Migrations to Europe 29: Joseph Morgan Hodge: Beyond Dependency: North-South Relationships in the Age of Development 30: Nicholas J. White: Imperial Business Interests, Decolonization and Post- Colonial Diversification 31: Paul Cooke: Film and the End of Empire: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Colonial Pasts and their Legacy in World Cinemas 32: Michael J. Parsons: Remnants of Empire 33: Charles Forsdick: Literature and Decolonization 34: Robert Aldrich: Apologies, Restitutions and Compensation: Making Reparations for Colonialism

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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive study of all the plantations that were attempted in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. It examines the arguments advanced by successive political figures for a plantation policy, and the responses which this policy elicited from different segments of the population in Ireland. The book opens with an analysis of the complete works of Edmund Spenser who was the most articulate ideologue for plantation. The author argues that all subsequent advocates of plantation, ranging from King James VI and I, to Strafford, to Oliver Cromwell, were guided by Spenser''s opinions, and that discrepancies between plantation in theory and practice were measured against this yardstick. The book culminates with a close analysis of the 1641 insurrection throughout Ireland, which, it is argued, steeled Cromwell to engage in one last effort to make Ireland British.Trade Review... for many years it will be compulsory reading for anyone wishing to understand English colonial policy and its impact on native society. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *Canny's knowledge of literary as well as official sources is exemplary. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *No other work reveals so much about the transformation of life across the island through the remorseless colonial process that began in Elizabethan times. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *Let there be no mistake: Making Ireland British is an extraordinary book, a major feat of scholarship, and probably the single most important study of early modern Ireland to appear for a generation or more. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *wonderful work, richly layered and contextualised ... a masterly study and an unmitigated triumph ... a masterpiece of painstaking research ... [a] splendid volume. * History Today *Table of Contents1. Spenser Sets the Agenda ; 2. The English Presence in Spenser's Ireland ; 3. The Munster Plantation: Theory and Practice ; 4. Plantation in Ireland 1603-1622: Theory and Practice ; 5. The Politics of Plantation 1622-1641 ; 6. The British Presence in Wentworth's Ireland ; 7. Plantation and Politics: The Irish Response ; 8. The Irish Insurrection of 1641

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Book SynopsisThe Memories of Empire trilogy explores the complex and subterranean political currents that emerged in English society during the years of post-war decolonization. Just as the empire ended, when white princesses waltzed with new black heads of state in celebration of independence from colonial rule, the registers of racial whiteness in the home society quickened, and racial segregation - the colour bar - became ever more pronounced. Where are the connections to be located between the racial dimensions of decolonization overseas, and the colonial dimensions of race at home?Working back from the peak of Enoch Powell''s influence in 1968-1970, Memories of Empire seeks to illuminate the impact of decolonization on the political life of the old metropole. Decisive in this respect is the question of race, or more particularly the shifting dispositions of racial whiteness. The long colonial ordering of the idea of the white man, and of its various derivatives, constituted a powerful componenTrade ReviewProfessor Bill Schwarz's book dramatically brings to life the frontier worlds of the British empire, not least the settler-colonial experiences of global Englishmen, and the ways in which these worlds and experiences came to redefine the meaning and purpose of empire itself. In The White Man's World, Schwarz brilliantly draws our awareness to the connections between British imperial thought and attendant imperial theories of what he terms 'racial whiteness'. * Dr Ian Sanjay Patel, LSE's Research for the World magazine *Readers who have followed the struggle over the proper place of imperialism in British history these last three decades will know that Schwarz throws open many doors which have long been ajar but which, even now, await those willing to walk boldly yet thoughtfully through them ... The luxuriously long form of Schwarzs narrative is utterly inseparable from the force of his argument. Evidently, The White Mans World is the first of a trilogy; future volumes should be eagerly anticipated. * Aantoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, The American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'The Thing' ; Prologue: Reveries of Race, April 1968 ; 1. Ethnic Populism ; 2. Colony and Metropole ; 3. Remembering Race ; 4. The Romance of the Veld ; 5. Frontier Philosopher: Jan Christian Smuts ; 6. Defeated by Friends: The Central African Federation ; 7. Ian Smith: The Last White Man? ; Index

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Table of ContentsChapter 1: Political Democratization ; Chapter 2: Africa and the Global Economy ; Chapter 3: Modernity and Tradition ; Chapter 4: Health, Healing and Cultural Autonomy ; Chapter 5: Sexuality, Gender and Human Rights ; Chapter 6: African Security in a Post-9/11 World

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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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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 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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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 SynopsisBen Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical and historical account of the relationships between modern literature, representations of indigeneity, and educative practices in colonial zones from the 1920s to the 1940s, encompassing the central place of teaching and learning both in modernist aesthetics and on the part of writer-activists.Trade ReviewIn this brilliantly researched book, Ben Conisbee Baer shows us the diversity of the dream of subaltern education shared by global anticolonialism and antiracism. Its relationship to Marxism is given in historical detail. Through meticulous close readings, Indigenous Vanguards shows how the literary both represents and enacts these dreams. The readings of Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s The Tale of Hansuli Turn are provocatively original. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia UniversityNothing short of a disciplinary milestone for new genealogies, epistemologies, and cartographies of the comparative humanities, this impeccably researched and carefully argued literary history maps the configuration of postindependence self-determination movements worldwide. In scope and intellectual sensitivity, Indigenous Vanguards is a major contribution to postcolonial theory and the class stratifications of geomodernism. -- Emily Apter, New York UniversityThrough a combination of the best of literary theory and an imaginative use of the archive, Baer provides brilliant insights into how anticolonial intellectuals inserted their political projects into what was supposed to be an autonomous aesthetic and, in the process, transformed the culture of the long twentieth century. Precise in its reading of cultural movements and texts, this book is a remarkable display of how a comparative approach makes modernism new again. -- Simon Gikandi, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Harlem/Berlin: Shadows of Vanguards Between Prussia and Afro-America2. Négritude (Slight Return): The African Laboratory of Bicephalingualism3. Négritude (Slight Return) II: Aimé Césaire and the Uprooting Apparatus4. Educating Mexico: D. H. Lawrence and Indigenismo Between Postcolonial Horror and Postcolonial Hope5. India Outside India: Gandhi, Fiction, and the Pedagogy of ViolenceNotesIndex

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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 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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