National liberation and independence Books

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

Read more less

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

Read more less

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.

Read more less

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less

Book SynopsisWhat India's founders derived from Western political traditions is widely understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge traditions of 2,500 years influenced these men. Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, showing how five founders turned to classical texts to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood.Trade ReviewAnanya Vajpeyi’s Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India radically advances our understanding of political traditions in a major non-western country. -- Pankaj Mishra * The Guardian *Most historians credit liberal ideas from Britain, absorbed by the Western-oriented Indian elite, with giving birth to modern India. (The Congress Party of Gandhi and Nehru was founded at the suggestion of A.O. Hume, a British civil servant, in 1885.) Few are aware of the extent to which nationalist leaders turned to Indic texts to revive Indians’ sense of collective selfhood, and how extensively these shaped their own political practice and the country’s post-independence social compact. -- Sudha Koul * Wall Street Journal *Ananya Vajpeyi’s Righteous Republic is quite simply the most important interpretation of the evolution of India’s contemporary nationhood since Sunil Khilnani’s The Idea of India, and a useful antidote to the revisionist Imperialism of rising British star-historians like Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson… Fluently written, cogent in argument, studded with penetrating insights, telling aphorisms, with complete mastery of her material, consistently brilliant expression and exposition, this young philosopher-historian takes her definitive place as a commentator and synthesizer of the often varied and contradictory approaches to the idea of India. -- Mani Shankar Aiyar * Financial Express *Ananya Vajpeyi’s Righteous Republic is a unique addition to the discourse around the themes of India’s negotiation with its colonial past and its present political framework… Vajpeyi excels at what she does in the present volume, however, and the book is informed with high standards of intellectual rigour, analytical acuity and—last but certainly not the least—an eminently readable, nearly jargon-free prose. -- Suparna Banerjee * The Hindu *Righteous Republic makes an important contribution to the existing literature and should be read by those who truly want to understand more about the past and present in Indian political thought. This carefully crafted and lucidly written book moves beyond exploring the contemporary essence of Indian thought by looking into a vast array of ideas on democracy, culture, religion, ethnic traditions, nationalist aspirations and identities. It is in all a fine piece of literary scholarship that gives readers an opportunity to engage in sustained and in-depth exploration of a subject that has received scant treatment by scholars. -- Vidhu Verma * The Book Review *Vajpeyi’s quest for the sources of India’s freedom struggle parts ways with traditional historiography on the subject in ways that renders her work unique and groundbreaking… For Vajpeyi, India’s quest for freedom was as much a moral struggle for selfhood as for political freedom… Righteous Republic is a riveting story of five men’s journeys of India’s rich past through their ‘readings’ of texts and artifacts to discover those categories that would flesh out for them the laden ambiguities of ‘swaraj.’ Vajpeyi pulls the reader into uncharted territory, as these five men search and then find what they were looking for not in the dominant western discursive categories that they hadbeen exposed to, but in a pre-modern lexicon… Outstanding scholarship, imbued with modest passion and effortless originality. -- Ashoak Upadhyay * Business Line *[Vajpeyi] weaves the strands of self and sovereignty together to argue that Indian nationalism was a moral project to create a righteous republic distinguished by its ‘solid plinth of moral selfhood and ethical sovereignty,’ without which India would be just another state. -- Kranti Saran * Business Standard *What Vajpeyi’s analysis does so admirably is to deepen our grasp of how the category of the Indian self, which serves as the basis for what is Indian about ‘the people,’ came to be imagined by the makers of modern India. Just as American connotations of terms like ‘freedom’ and ‘equality’ are deeply embedded in the American history of slavery, empire, and capitalism, Vajpeyi’s analysis provides us with an approach for grasping the conceptual vocabulary shaped by India’s history of colonialism and nationalism. -- Vivek Bhandari * Democratic World *Ananya Vajpeyi’s Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India is a book that everyone interested in the evolution of the ideas that shaped the modern Indian nation should read. -- Manjula Narayan * Hindustan Times *[Vajpeyi] reads the search for the self through five founders of modern India: Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar, and the Tagores, Rabindranath and his nephew Abanindranath… This is a book that must be read, not just for its arguments, which are innovative, and not just for its language, which is evocative, but for its singular achievement in making the familiar unfamiliar, and for demanding the asking of new questions. -- Manu Bhagavan * IBN Live *Righteous Republic is compelling reading about India and its ideological moorings in the making of, during and through the independence movement… Righteous Republic is a book of its own kind, written by a historian; it circumambulates multiple disciplinary terrains: art history, cultural criticism, literary theory, religious studies, and political and cultural history. It also uses poetry, paintings, murals, religious texts and archaeological finds for narrative and analysis. And yet, in covering multiple canvasses in drawing up a complex picture, Vajpeyi does not lose the focus of her research design. A complex subject, dealt with in a multidisciplinary perspective, explained with original and evocative arguments, yet written in lucid and imaginative language, the book is essential reading not only for professional social scientists, but also for anyone interested in comprehending India’s ideological moorings in a fresh perspective. -- Ajay K. Mehra * India International Centre Quarterly *This is a must read for those interested in India’s modern intellectual history. -- Gitanjali Surendran * Indian Express *An engaging intellectual history that helps us better understand 21st-century India. Vajpeyi examines five giants involved in the founding of the republic in 1950—Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru and Bhimrao Ambedkar—who all drew inspiration from indigenous traditions as they strove to craft a postcolonial Indian identity. -- Jeff Kingston * Japan Times *In this inspiring and ambitious work, Ananya Vajpeyi charts out an innovative and fresh path to approach the idea of modern India, one that especially shines because of its ingenuity and simplicity… The project is especially unique because there has been no tradition of thinking about the notion of the self, especially in a political sense, in India… Vajpeyi has given us a compelling argument to rethink the political foundations of modern India. Indeed, Vajpeyi’s work convincingly illustrates that India’s precolonial past matters as much as its colonial history. -- Arvind Elangovan * Journal of Asian Studies *Brilliant and extremely engaging… Through a potent combination of close literary reading and excellent sociopolitical and methodological analysis, Vajpeyi puts forward a coherent narrative, which is the story of the formulation of the Indian intellectual self… [A] lucid and original argument. -- Angshukanta Chakraborty * Millennium Post *This is an important book because it takes the discourse on Indian history beyond the realm of politics and sociology and dips into ideas, in particular, the arts. -- Salil Tripathi * Mint *Swaraj: a word pervasive in the Indian philological lexicon, originating from the Sanskrit swa, meaning ‘of the self,’ and rajya—rule. The matter of deciding its true meaning from the combination of its two root verbs should be simple and yet, as Ananya Vajpeyi reveals in her first book on modern India’s political foundations, it all depends on different perceptions of national duty. Vajpeyi’s unique spin on the topic has her examining the classical sources of inspiration behind the teachings of five of India’s most significant founding figures: Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, his nephew Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and BR Ambedkar. The ‘righteous republic’ based on self-rule, under Vajpeyi’s close study, divulges its interwoven web mixing Sanskrit poetry, Buddhist teachings, the legacies of the Emperor Ashoka and Mughal dynasties of the past, and even the Bhagavad Gita, each having played a key role in shaping the political visions of these icons. Despite confessing to the self-perceived inadequacy of her completed work in her conclusion, there is scarcely a fault regarding the author’s zest for the subject, a plus point that proves effective in rousing this reader’s own interest. -- Noori Passela * The National *This is a book that is original, insightful and quirky. -- Swapan Dasgupta * Outlook *Magisterial. -- Mani Shankar Aiyar * Outlook India *It is certainly not a book to be taken lightly. [Vajpeyi] delves deep into India’s past to explain the ideas of these five thinkers who had such a profound impact on the independence movement. -- Mark Tully * Resurgence & Ecologist *Righteous Republic creates a ground from which the moral in modern Indian conceptions of selfhood and the founding moment of the sovereign Republic can possibly be thought anew. -- Tridip Suhrud * Seminar *Magisterial. -- Veena Das and Shalini Randeria * Socio *[An] extraordinarily ambitious and remarkable book… Vajpeyi’s engagement with these seminal figures for modern Indian political thought is scaffolded on a set of unequivocally stated foundational claims that challenge many of the cherished principles governing the study of South Asia in the Indian and Anglo-American academies… Vajpeyi reads each founding father’s deeply felt engagement with tradition, at once cerebral and visceral, through the lens of key concepts that are, importantly, not just political but aesthetic, ethical, moral, and spiritual… Each reading, to which a chapter is devoted, is a masterpiece, combining careful philological and historical work, deft close reading, and incisive political analysis and brimming with astonishing, often counter-intuitive insights… Provocative, brilliant, and erudite, a magnificent reading of readings, Righteous Republic itself stands as a foundational work of scholarship. -- Rohit Chopra * Sunday Guardian *What emerges from Righteous Republic is a sense of the intellectual ferment in India from the turn of the 20th century up to Independence; the sense of men, not just the five in the book, thinking up and imagining a country, rather than just being handed one by the British. The book is as much literary and art criticism as it is history, requiring of Vajpeyi some agile reading. She makes connections her five principals themselves may not have made, particularly in her excellent chapter of Abanindranath Tagore, making us consider afresh men and ideas to which we seem to have become inured. -- Shougat Dasgupta * Tehelka *Vajpeyi is a close and interpretative reader of texts and of paintings. She strives always to be original and writes evocatively. Readers looking for definitive answers will be disappointed. Vajpeyi demands that her readers join her in the journey towards the dark cave of meaning. -- Rudrangshu Mukherjee * The Telegraph *‘Swaraj,’ the key term in Indian nationalism, refers to the self. But what is this self that is the subject of Indian self-rule? Ananya Vajpeyi retraces the field of modern Indian political thought to analyze the answers offered by five canonical figures. Her work is original, acute, sensitive, frequently unconventional, and always delightfully readable. -- Partha Chatterjee, Columbia UniversityA thoroughly original, high-quality, and pathbreaking contribution to Indian intellectual history. -- Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Centre for Policy ResearchIn a series of sophisticated and original readings, Ananya Vajpeyi paints an arresting picture of the moral imaginary inside the tradition of modern Indian political thought. Against the grain of much recent interpretation, Vajpeyi argues that modern Indian political thought should be read not through Western categories like freedom, equality, and independence, but through subtle, underlying Indian categories—swaraj, viraha, samvega, dharma, artha, and duhkha. Righteous Republic offers an original and subtle re-reading of a familiar field, and persuades us to view it in a different light. -- Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University

Read more less

Book SynopsisWhat is colonialism and what is a colonial state? In exploring these questions, Ranajit Guha points out that the South Asian colonial state was a historical paradox. Britain may have ruled India as a colony, but it never achieved hegemony over most of the population, collaborating with the nationalist elite but never persuading the masses.Trade ReviewRanajit Guha is, arguably, the most creative Indian historian of this century. His works have deeply influenced not only the writing of subcontinental history, but also historical investigations elsewhere, as well as cultural studies, literary theories, and social analyses across the world. -- Amartya SenAside from its obvious relevance to Indian history, Guha's book is a brilliant example of revolutionary historical method, new perspectives on nationalist history, and theoretical inventiveness in the procedures of historical research. -- Edward W. SaidOver the years, the result of this endeavor has been the production of an eclectic brand of ideological theories, an incisive critique of the existing Indian historiography, and a renewed theoretical fervor, as this book itself epitomizes, for retrieving the history of the "subaltern" past – their revolutionary political moments and cultural class consciousness. -- Amalendu K. Chakraborty * Journal of World History *Table of ContentsPreface Note on Transliteration PART 1: Colonialism in South Asia: A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography I. Conditions for a Critique of Historiography Dominance and Its Historiographies Containment of Historiography in a Dominant Culture Where Does Historical Criticism Come From? The Universalizing Tendency of Capital and Its Limitations The General Configuration of Power in Colonial India II. Paradoxes of Power Idioms of Dominance and Subordination Order and Danda Improvement and Dharma Obedience and Bhakti Rightful Dissent and Dharmic Protest III. Dominance without Hegemony: The Colonialist Moment Overdeterminations Colonialism as the Failure of a Universalist Project The Fabrication of a Spurious Hegemony The Bad Faith of Historiography IV. Preamble to an Autocritique PART 2: Discipline and Mobilize: Hegemony and Elite Control in Nationalist Campaigns I. Mobilization and Hegemony Anticipation of Power by Mobilization A Fight for Prestige II. Swadeshi Mobilization Poor Nikhilesh Caste Sanctions Social Boycott Liberal Politics, Traditional Bans Swadeshi by Coercion or Consent? III. Mobilization For Non-cooperation Social Boycott in Non-cooperation Gandhi's Opposition to Social Boycott Hegemonic Claims Contested IV. Gandhian Discipline Discipline versus Persuasion Two Disciplines- Elite and Subaltern Crowd Control and Soul Control V. Conclusion PART 3: An Indian Historiography of India: Hegemonic Implications of a Nineteenth-Century Agenda I. Calling on Indians to Write Their Own History II. Historiography and the Formation of a Colonial State Early Colonial Historiography Three Types of Narratives Education as an Instrument of Colonialism The Importance of English III. Colonialism and the Languages of the Colonized Indigenous Languages Harnessed to the Raj Novels and Histories Beginnings of an Indigenous Rationalist Historiography An Ideology of Matribhasha IV. Historiography and the Question of Power An Appropriated Past The Theme of Kalamka Bahubol and Its Objects V. A Failed Agenda Notes Glossary Index

Read more less

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

Read more less

Book SynopsisA multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as seen through the lens of the Burr Conspiracy In 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed American republic, traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which he was arrested and tried for treason in 1807. This boTrade Review"Finalist for the 2018 George Washington Prize""2017 Finalist in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards""Longlisted for the 2018 Cundill History Prize, McGill University""Were he to read a book, the President of the United States might profit­ably begin with James E. Lewis’s The Burr Conspiracy, an authoritative account of the tortured relationship between intelligence and executive power."---Edward G. Gray, Times Literary Supplement"Lucid prose and careful notes make this text one that will interest both scholars of early nationalism and readers simply interested in learning more about Burr beyond his famous duel with Alexander Hamilton." * Publishers Weekly *"Lewis contributes to the conversation with a wholly new analysis of the Burr conspiracy that focuses more on the reaction than on the event itself. . . . A meticulously researched, comprehensive analysis essential to early American scholarship." * Library Journal *"Instead of offering his own narrative of the conspiracy, Lewis reconstructs the ‘stories’ Americans told themselves in order to decide what Burr’s aims were, how he succeeded in winning the support of several hundred men who knew about his plans, and what these events said about the stability of republican government in general and the US in particular. . . . No one can doubt Lewis’s diligence as a researcher."---Eric Foner, London Review of Books"In The Burr Conspiracy, James Lewis . . . provides an exhaustive and informative account of the myriad ways in which Burr’s contemporaries struggled to make sense ‘of swirling rumors and conflicting reports’ about the expedition, Burr’s trial, and its aftermath. . . . Lewis’ splendid book will appeal to readers who enjoy getting into the weeds. It also serves as a cautionary tale for our times." * Tulsa World *

Read more less

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

Read more less

Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the 2018 George Washington Prize""2017 Finalist in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards""Longlisted for the 2018 Cundill History Prize, McGill University"

Read more less

Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Wall Street Journal Best Politics Book of the Year""A World Magazine Best Book of the Year""Very illuminating. Much recommended."---Jamelle Bouie, New York Times columnist"An astute discussion of the American founders’ suspicions that the republic they had created wouldn’t, in the end, make it. . . . Gracefully written and fair in its judgments. . . . Timely."---Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal"Written in simultaneously accessible and brilliant prose, Rasmussen crafts a flowing narrative built on the writings of the founders themselves. This narrative is further illuminated by his commentary and mastery of the secondary literature. This book can (and should) be enjoyed by nonspecialists, but this does not diminish the originality of the work."---Kenly Stewart, Los Angeles Review of Books"Fascinating."---Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor"An illuminating account of how the founding fathers worried about the future of America. . . . This standout history provides useful context for understanding the roots of contemporary political turmoils and may comfort those who fear that American democracy is in dire peril." * Publishers Weekly, starred review *"Making the striking argument that all but one of the major founders of the U.S. died disillusioned with their creation, Rasmussen nevertheless offers hope for our current predicaments . . . an authoritative and convincing argument in disarmingly artful prose." * Kirkus Reviews *"Rasmussen has produced a well-researched study that is a salutary read. He writes accessibly, explaining what motivated and worried each of [the founders]. Concern for future generations and the fate of the republic is a recurring theme, and will also resonate with many readers today." * Library Journal *"Magisterial . . . creative and thought-provoking at every turn . . . a delightful book. . . . Rasmussen has superbly placed the story of the Founders’ growing ideological concerns about their creation in the context of their own often eccentric personalities."---John O. McGinnis, Law & Liberty"On my history book of the year short list."---Marvin Olasky, World"Drawing on reams of personal correspondence between the Founders, Rasmussen persuasively argues that the vast majority of America’s Founders—including the likes of Washington, Adams, Hamilton, and Jefferson—went to their death beds disillusioned with the political order they had created."---Thomas Koenig, The Dispatch"Very timely . . . a fascinating and completely new perspective on the Founders and their view of the country they helped create . . . highly engaging and thought-provoking, showing the very human side of politics in early America."---Jerry D. Lenaburg, New York Journal of Books"Compelling and compulsively readable. . . . In putting leading founders’ disillusionment with the Constitution at the center of his thoughtful scholarly analysis, Rasmussen vividly brings to light the fact that the founders themselves were often the Constitution’s most perceptive and powerful critics."---George Thomas, American Political Thought"Rasmussen’s book also offered me some new insights and interesting facts. . . . Fears of a Setting Sun helps in understanding some of the roots of our contemporary political struggle and the fear of the decay of American democracy."---Pia Herzan, H-Soz-Kult"Fears of a Setting Sun is an engaging, indeed fun, read, nicely written and deftly argued. More than that, it is a useful reminder at this political moment that while things ain’t what they used to be, they never were in the first place."---Steven Conn, Origins

Read more less

Book SynopsisTrade Review'The voyage across methodologies, histories, lands, and cultures will be as eye-opening yet bumpy as any such excursion around the colonial world must be. [...] Among the many virtues of the contributions is that they move well beyond schematic depictions of colonial power, taking various approaches to the dynamics of colonial relations and examining the agency, and even at times the complicity, of colonialized subjects. [...] Taken as a whole, the impressive undertaking may be considered under the rubric of “critical global studies”, as Felicity Nussbaum calls the project informing The Global Eighteenth Century (2003), a collection to which Interpreting Colonialism provides a welcome and worthy complement.'Eighteenth-Century FictionTable of ContentsIntroductionI. RepresentationsDriss Aissaoui, L’image de l’Autre dans le Journal de voyage de Robert ChalleFabienne-Sophie Chauderlot, Prolégomènes à un anti-colonialisme futur: Histoire des deux Indes et Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville de DiderotMark Hinchman, The travelling portrait: women and representation in eighteenth-century SenegalOliver Berghof, Tahiti, 1767-1777: the view from the shoreSven Trakulhun, Lost history: 18th-century European travel literature and the writing of the Thai past of the Ayudhyan period (1350-1767)II. MercantilismNoelia González Adánez, From kingdoms to colonies: the enlightened idea of America in Charles III’s SpainGustavo L. Paz, Mules for the Indians: coerced consumption and domestic market in late colonial Spanish South AmericaTy M. Reese, Debating England’s African trade: mercantilism, free trade, and the world’s commodities at Cape Coast Castle, 1730-1780Eun Kyung Min, Narrating the Far East: commerce, civility, and ceremony in the Amherst Embassy to China, 1816-1817Siraj Ahmed, The power to lend money without extracting interest: renegade capitalism in late eighteenth-century British IndiaIII. Religion and ideologyDavid Eduardo Tavárez, Colonial evangelisation and native resistance: the interplay of native political autonomy and ritual practices in Villa Alta (New Spain), 1700-1704Ruth Hill, Casta as culture and the Sociedad de Castas as literatureDoris Garraway, Material bodies, spiritual worlds: ideologies of the occult and regimes of discipline in the colonial French CaribbeanEva M. Pérez, Encounters in sixteenth-century Europe: Jews, black slaves and despots in William Godwin’s Travels of St LeonIV. SlaveryDaniel Carey, Sugar, colonialism and the critique of slavery: Thomas Tryon in BarbadosLynn Festa, Tropes and chains: figures of exchange in eighteenth-century depictions of the slave tradeSarah Watson Parsons, The arts of abolition: race, representation, and British colonialism, 1768-1807Vera Lind, Privileged dependency on the edge of the Atlantic world: Africans and Germans in the eighteenth centuryList of works citedIndex

Read more less

Book SynopsisA groundbreaking history of Communist organisations and struggle in the Caribbean, focusing on women, peasants of colour and black workers.Trade Review'An essential book for those who want to understand the democratic history of the world, of how ordinary people lived extraordinary lives to fight for a just and true society' -- Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World'In this ambitious and original study, Margaret Stevens uncovers networks of working class organization forged against racism, colonialism, and capitalism. Sharply argued and passionately written, Stevens compels us to both study and strive towards a bold radical vision of international solidarity' -- Christina Heatherton, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Barnard College'Recommended' -- CHOICETable of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Bolshevism in Caribbean Context 1. The Dark World of 1919 2. Hands Off Haiti! 3. El Dorado Sees Red Part II: Two Steps Forward 4. Every Country Has a Scottsboro 5. The ‘Black Belt’ Turned South and Eastward Part III: Race, Nation and the Uneven Development of the Popular Front 6. The Temperament of the Age 7. Good Neighbors and Popular Fronts 8. Of ‘Dogs, Hogs and Haitians’ Notes Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisHow is Britain enacting colonialism at home?Trade Review'Forceful ... Re-centres coloniality in Britain's past and present in a way that articulates what so many of us experience as the embodied reality of being in Britain, but so rarely get space to voice: that colonialism and its continued methods of control' -- Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, poet and author of 'Postcolonial Banter' (Verve Poetry Press, 2019)'An excellent and intelligently argued book. It neatly charts the transformation of colonial techniques 'at home' and how Britain was reconfigured in postcolonial terms' -- Gurminder K Bhambra, author of 'Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)'An indispensable read for those who want to both understand and put aside the at once Eurocentric and nationalist lens of Brexit debates' -- Angela Mitropoulos, author of 'Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia' (Minor Compositions, 2012) and 'Pandemonium Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve' (Pluto, 2020)'A must-read for understanding Britain today. Britain is colonial, and the beauty of Trafford's riveting book is to show just how much this simple fact explains of recent British history' -- Nick Srnicek, author of 'Platform Capitalism, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work' (Polity Press, 2016)'Evocative ... unflinchingly unveils the workings of race as a 'technology that forms part of the machinery of colonialism'. Essential reading for an understanding of how and why white Britishness negates those who are 'in, but not of' it' -- Alana Lentin, Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University and author of 'Why Race Still Matters' (Polity, 2020)'A fascinating exposé of Britain as an ongoing colonial project. Deftly provides us with the counternarratives we need to think imaginatively about how to dismantle and ultimately end British colonialism' -- Dr Nadine El-Enany, Co-Director, Centre for Research on Race and Law and author of '(B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire' (MUP, 2019)Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1. The Mouth of a Shark 2. Extractive Entanglements Across Alien Territories 3. Policing Empire after Empire 4. Homeland Warfare and Differential Racism 5. Extinction Politics 6. The End of Britain Notes Indicative Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisA concise people’s history of Europe spanning from the First World War to todayTrade Review'A vivid and passionate fresco of a century of tumultuous European social history' -- Pietro Basso, Ca' Foscari University of Venice'Raquel Varela succeeds in explaining the disasters of European neoliberalism, without ever romanticising the social pact that went before it. In a work with a rich sense of historical possibility, she shows how every inch of social progress had to be fought for and how little it ever had to do with the European institutions' -- David Broder, 'Jacobin'Table of ContentsForeword by Kevin Murphy Preface 1. The War of Wars, the Revolution of Revolutions, 1917 2. ‘Man, Controller of the Universe’: The Crisis of 1929, the Revolutions of the 1930s and Nazism 3. Midnight in the Century: The Second World War 4. The 1945 European Social Pact 5. Anti-Colonial Revolutions 6. Crisis and Revolution: From May 68 to the Carnation Revolution 7. The End of the Social Pact (1981–2018) Conclusion Notes Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisAn alternative account of the Kashmir conflict centring the voices of the KashmirisTrade Review'Repeated clashes between India, Pakistan and China over Kashmir threaten to erupt into a nuclear conflict that might kill as many as 120 million in India and Pakistan, and perhaps several 1000 million worldwide. These disputes need to be resolved, which requires understanding their origins, the people of Kashmir and their struggles, and recent changes in the region. Nuclear Flashpoint provides essential insight into these issues for all who are concerned.' -- Professor Brian Toon, University of Colorado Boulder'An urgent and trenchant examination of Kashmir. Beautifully meshing history with modern political analysis, Chak masterfully interrogates ... the intersecting flashpoints that make the Kashmir crisis one of the most politically sensitive issues in modern world history. Beyond intellectual examination, Chak injects first-hand insights as a scholar, advocate and ancestral Kashmiri to offer a richness that few other books provide - bringing intimacy and empathy to words that spring colorfully from the pages.' -- Khaled A. Beydoun, Law Professor and author of 'The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims''Institutionalized systemic racial persecution ... against the people of Kashmir has pushed the world to the edge of nuclear conflict. Torture, unlawful killings and the denial of basic human rights and freedoms are well-documented by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and others. Dr. Chak's skillful analysis explains just how this unresolved crisis threatens global peace.' -- Ilyasah Shabbazz, educator and author of 'Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X'Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Who Are the Kashmiris? Resisting Post-Colonial Identity Theft and False Narratives 3. The Long Life Cycle of Resistance 4. Jammu Genocide 5. The Myth of Partition 6. India, Islamophobia, and the Hindutva Playbook 7. The 'Final Solution': Abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A 8. Nuclear Flashpoint: Sino-Indian Rivalry and Kashmir 9. Conclusion Notes Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisA systematic exploration of the arguments for Scottish independence from a sympathetic angleTrade Review'Readable, thoughtful and sharp-edged [...] Hassan’s incisive and respectful account lays out the arguments for and against Scottish independence' -- Gavin Esler, broadcaster and author of ‘How Britain Ends''A comprehensive, well-sourced and very wide-ranging discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of Scotland's independence movement, as it faces the challenges of a second referendum. Hassan shows how sterile the extreme arguments of unionist and nationalist can be' -- Neal Ascherson, writer and author of 'Black Sea’'A careful consensual account of how Scotland has come to be at the brink of independence, and of what this choice means for those who are not who are not yet committed either way. A clear description of what has changed since 2014 leading to a forensic examination of the implications for independence of the new context: a far less self-assured British elite. And a clear warning of just how nasty this debate is likely to become, across the UK' -- Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford'An important and timely contribution to the future of the Scottish independent movement' -- Ruth Wishart, journalist and broadcaster'Scotland needs this book. Read it. Give to your grandparents and grandkids. Put it on reading lists for students. Make sure it’s in the libraries. It’s one of the new pillars which we need to structure our thinking' -- Alison Phipps, Professor of Languages & Intercultural Studies and UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at University of Glasgow'The definitive account of why a decaying democracy in Westminster has triggered democratic renewal in Scotland through the desire for Independence. [This] book is essential reading for everyone who wants to understand the future of the UK, whether it breaks up or how it reconfigures itself' -- Neal Lawson, Director at Compass'This book’s distinction lies not just in its breadth of coverage, but in the light it sheds upon contesting points of view, and the depth to which it recognises identity, culture and the power of myth in Scottish independence. It emphasises the urgency of understanding opposing arguments to aid social change: an ability sadly lacking in most of the political world' -- Alastair McIntosh, human ecologist and author of 'Riders on the Storm''This is a very welcome contribution on the Scotland’s future that recognises that Scotland’s constitutional future cannot be divorced from the kind of society and economy and this requires tough, honest choices. Not everyone will agree with Gerry’s prescriptions but everyone should welcome this important, stimulating and serious book' -- James Mitchell, Professor of Government, University of Edinburgh'Too often arguments for or against Scottish independence are framed in short-termist narrow terms that reflect the confines of current - and flawed - economic debates. This book breaks out of today's thinking and looks to the bigger and deeper issues at stake' -- Katherine Trebeck, political economist'Scotland’s future and our constitutional choices warrant deeper, richer debate – debate that allows for imaginative ideas, candid questioning and respect for diversity. With clarity and substance, this book speaks to important issues inherently implicated in such debates, thinking about what’s at stake and why it matters' -- Dr Hannah Graham, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Stirling University‘Scotland’s future is not just about narrow politics, but the cultural realm, power of stories and drawing from the richness of the human imagination. [This] is a clarion call for that wider canvas challenging the closed order of too many of our debates and should be read by anyone interested in the future of this nation irrespective of their views’ -- David Greig, playwright and cultural commentator‘Scotland Rising is an indispensable guide to the current state of the independence debate and it deserves to be widely read and discussed’ -- ‘Bella Caledonia’‘Scotland Rising is a deeply thought through weighty gift whose time has come. Hassan offers a chance of some deeper thinking about what it means to be human’ -- ‘The National’‘Hassan deftly rephrases this issue to avoid a black and white discussion as to the merits of independence or union but as to which is best capable to dealing with the new challenges of the present era’ -- ‘The Drouth’Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Terrain of the Debate 1. The Scottish Question(s) 2. Nation, Stories and Voice Part II: The Story So Far 3. The Road to the Independence Debate: How Did We Get Here? 4. The Case for Independence 5. Understanding the Case Against Independence Part III: Scotland’s Choices and the Divided Kingdom 6. Empire State Britain 7. Scotland’s Democratic Argument 8. Economic Injustice 9. A Socially Just Scotland 10. Cultural Change and Self-Determination 11. Scotland International Part IV: The Shape of Things to Come 12. How Scotland Gets an Independence Referendum 13. The Next Campaign Part V: Future Landscapes 14. After an Independence Vote 15. The Future of the UK/rUK after Independence 16. Scotland’s Right to Decide 17. Future Stories of Scotland Notes

Read more less

Book SynopsisExamines the history, and possible futures, of radical politics in the postcolonial CaribbeanTrade Review'A clarion call and a reminder that only a fully democratised, postsecular state of our collective making can save us. After the Postcolonial Caribbean is exemplary' -- Francio Guadeloupe, University of Amsterdam and Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian & Caribbean studies'Presents us with a challenge, the daunting task of imagining and creating a world beyond the post-colonial present. Through a combination of political theory, political economy, popular culture and Caribbean critique, Meeks offers his readers a grounding in this critical meditation on the meaning of social transformation and freedom while avoiding the tendency to descend into pessimism and despair' -- David Austin, author of 'Dread Poetry' and 'Freedom''Presents an erudite and unexcitable interpretation of the dark times which engulf us. In sprightly, dancing prose he locates the Caribbean in the global currents which organise who we now are and who we can become ... A rare book of beauty' -- Bill Schwarz, Professor at Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Reminiscing 1. Reminiscing in Black, Gold and Green 2. Reading the Seventies in a Different Stylie 3. The Politics of Edna Manley 4. Lamming’s Politics and the Radical Caribbean 5. Jamaican Roads Not Taken Part Two: Reimagining 6. Beyond Neoliberalism’s Dead End 7. Hegemony and the Trumpian Moment 8. Roadblock on Hope Road 9. On the Question of Optimism in Troubled Times

Read more less

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less

Book SynopsisFire and the Full Moon reassesses Canada's postwar foreign policy objectives and national image through the gulf between rhetoric and reality in Canada's response to decolonization in Indonesia and the Global South.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Canada, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1945–492 The Golden Bridge: Canada and Indonesian Economic Development, 1950–633 Non-state Networks and Modernizing Elites in the Sukarno Years4 Canada, Alliance Politics, and the West New Guinea Dispute, 1957–635 Canada, Confrontation, and the End of Empire in Southeast Asia, 1963–666 A Pebble in Many Shoes: Development in Indonesia, Decolonization in East Timor, 1968–99ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Read more less

Book SynopsisWho has the more legitimate claim to land, settlers who occupy and improve it with their labour, or landlords who claim ownership on the basis of imperial grants? This question of property rights, and their construction, was at the heart of rural protest on Prince Edward Island for a century. Tenants resisted landlord claims by squatting and refusing to pay rent. They fought for their vision of a just rural order through petitions, meetings, rallies, electoral campaigns, and direct action. Landlords responded with their own collective action to protect their interests. In Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island Rusty Bittermann examines this conflict and the dynamic of rural protest on the Island from its establishment as a British colony in the 1760s to the early 1840s.The focus of Bittermann's study is the remarkable mass movement known as the Escheat movement, which emerged in the 1830s in the context of growing popular challenges elsewhere in the Atlantic Worl

Read more less

Book SynopsisThese essays, drawn from the author's work since 1964, address three themes in American history in the century preceding the 1760s: authority in colonial British America; the political and constitutional development of these colonial entities; and shifting constitutional tensions within the empire.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe author of this book offers a paradigm for the interpretation of south-eastern Native American, and Spanish colonial history, and another way of viewing the development of the United States. She describes the genesis of those North American groups collectively known as Maskoki.

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn an unusually powerful book that will appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist, Louis A. Perez, Jr., recounts the story of the critical years when Cuba won its independence from Spain only to fall in the American orbit.

Read more less

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis volume offers a profile of Japan's pre-war foreign ministry, especially the Chinese specialists within the ministry, who advocated that Japan must adopt policies in harmony with China's rising nationalism and national interests. It examines a range of primary sources.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory.Table of ContentsList of terms vi Acknowledgements ix Preface x Dictionary 1 References 170

Read more less

Book SynopsisWinner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)) Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power. Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research data Amply supplemented with maps and illustrations An intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and the Maya Trade Review"Wainwright is to be applauded for marshalling his considerable intellectual skills to advancing our understanding of Maya colonial experiences (past and present) in the confines of Belize." (Social & Cultural Geography, February 2009) "Theoretically sophisticated.... It has some important things to say that are relevant to both scholars and practitioners concerned with development practices in the South today." (Geographical Journal, 2009) "Culture studies sometimes receive a hasty, often incoherent introduction.... Fortunately, this book is an exception. Wainwright provides a meticulous and actually readable explanation of the culture studies 'manifesto.' One of the interesting issues discussed was the Mayas' 'development' into settled farming, as opposed to their original milpa (i.e., slash and bum) agriculture. Recommended." (CHOICE, December 2008)Table of ContentsList of figures. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Part I: Colonizing the Maya. 1. The territorialization of southern Belize. 2. The matter of the Maya farm system. 3. An archaeology of Mayanism. Part II: Aporias of development. 4. From colonial to development knowledge. 5. Settling: fieldwork in the ruins of development. 6. Finishing the critique of cultural ecology. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

Read more less

Book SynopsisA Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that include anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology.Trade Review“Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies.” (Cross-Border Review Yearbook of the European Institute, 1 September 2014) “Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 April 2013)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Table viii Notes on Contributors ix 1 Borders and Border Studies 1 Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan Part I Sovereignty, Territory and Governance 27 2 Partition 29 Brendan O'Leary 3 Culture Theory and the US–Mexico Border 48 Josiah McC. Heyman 4 The African Union Border Programme in European Comparative Perspective 66 Anthony I. Asiwaju 5 European Politics of Borders, Border Symbolism and Cross-Border Cooperation 83 James Wesley Scott 6 Securing Borders in Europe and North America 100 Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly 7 Border Regimes, the Circulation of Violence and the Neo-authoritarian Turn 119 John Borneman Part II States, Nations and Empires 137 8 Borders in the New Imperialism 139 James Anderson 9 Contested States, Frontiers and Cities 158 Liam O'Dowd 10 The State, Hegemony and the Historical British-US Border 177 Allan K. McDougall and Lisa Philips 11 Nations, Nationalism and "Borderization" in the Southern Cone 194 Alejandro Grimson 12 Debordering and Rebordering the United Kingdom 214 Cathal McCall 13 "Swarming" at the Frontiers of France, 1870–1885 230 Olivier Thomas Kramsch 14 Borders and Conflict Resolution 249 David Newman Part III Security, Order and Disorder 267 15 Chaos and Order along the (Former) Iron Curtain 269 Mathijs Pelkmans 16 Border Security as Late-Capitalist "Fix" 283 Brenda Chalfin 17 Identity, the State and Borderline Disorder 301 Dan Rabinowitz 18 African Boundaries and the New Capitalist Frontier 318 Timothy Raeymaekers 19 Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars in Afghanistan 332 Jonathan Goodhand 20 Biosecurity, Quarantine and Life across the Border 354 Alan Smart and Josephine Smart 21 Permeabilities, Ecology and Geopolitical Boundaries 371 Hilary Cunningham Part IV Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility 387 22 Borders and the Rhythms of Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility 389 Pamela Ballinger 23 Remapping Borders 405 Henk van Houtum 24 From Border Policing to Internal Immigration Control in the United States 419 Mathew Coleman 25 Labor Migration, Traffi cking and Border Controls 438 Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons 26 Spatial Strategies for Rebordering Human Migration at Sea 455 Alison Mountz and Nancy Hiemstra 27 "B/ordering" and Biopolitics in Central Asia 473 Nick Megoran 28 Border, Scene and Obscene 492 Nicholas De Genova Part V Space, Performance and Practice 505 29 Border Show Business and Performing States 507 David B. Coplan 30 Performativity and the Eventfulness of Bordering Practices 522 Robert J. Kaiser 31 Reconceptualizing the Space of the Mexico–US Borderline 538 Robert R. Alvarez, Jr 32 Border Towns and Cities in Comparative Perspective 557 Paul Nugent 33 A Sense of Border 573 Sarah Green Index 593

Read more less

Book SynopsisDrawing on examples from different local and regional contexts,Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution demonstrates the many remarkably local ways that revolution and empire were experienced in London, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn Island, and points in between.Trade Review'This edited collection provides novel perspective and much food for thought on the revolutionary Atlantic and its complexity.' -- Enrico Dal Lago Canadian Journal of History vol 51:03:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction: Division, Renewal, and Repetition - Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution (Michael Meranze And Saree Makdisi) 1. Transoceanic Spectacles of Dissection: London's Anatomical Art in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania (Ari Sarafianos) 2. Disavowed and Reprobated: Anti-Quakerism in an Age of Revolution (Sarah Crabtree) 3. British Atlantic Catholicism in the Age of Revolution and Reaction (Catherine O'Donnell) 4. Mary Wollstonecraft's Two Lovers: Convergence and Divergence in Trans-Atlantic Literary Radicalism (Andrew Cayton) 5. Susanna Rowson's Antislavery and Feminist Ideals in Transatlantic Translation: A Tale of Three Cities (Jenna Gibbs) 6. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's Romantic Retreat: Magic, Mesmerism, and Prophecy, 1776-1802 (Iain McCalman) 7. From Radical Enthusiasm to Liberal Melancholia: Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Modern Chivalry, Part 1 and 2 (Anthony Galluzzo) 8. Penal Reform and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century England: "A Prison Must Be a Prison" (Randall McGowen) 9. When the Atlantic Went Global: A Note on Slavery and Rebellion in Fletcher Christian's Pitcairn (Edward G. Gray)

Read more less

Book SynopsisCombining the breadth of global history with the intimacy of biography, Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across space and time, advancing a new vision of the United States’s Pacific empire that begins with the natives and migrants who were at the heart of colonialism and its everyday undoing.

Read more less

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

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, historicizing the most vivid imaginations and modes of power in Africa today: French obsessions with cannibals, the emergence of vampires and witches in the Gabonese imaginary, and the use ofhuman organs for fetishes. Struggling over objects, bodies, agency, and values, colonizers and colonized entered relations that are better conceptualized as 'transactions.' Together they also shared an awareness of how the colonial situation broke down moral orders and forced people to use the evil side of power. This foreshadowed the ways in which people exercise agency in contemporary Africa, as well as the proliferation of magical fears and witchcraft anxieties in present-day Gabon.Trade Review". . .This should be a key text for African studies and certainly for any collection centered on West and Central Africa." -- J. R. Kenyon * Choice *"Bernault's ability to trace . . . imaginaries throughout centuries of thought and praxis in both France and Gabon make this book a valuable addition to the historiography of west Africa." -- Amanda Ford * International Social Science Review *"Bernault’s book fills a void in many ways, providing an English-speaking audience with one among the very few in-depth studies out there on a nation and its people that certainly merit more attention." -- Cheryl Toman * Postcolonial Text *“A well-documented scholarly work enriched with an elegant style…. With this new book, Florence Bernault makes an invaluable contribution to African cultural anthropology by proposing an innovative approach to witchcraft that transcends the nativist paradigm and explores the intersecting third space of mutual influences (colonized/colonizers) from which arose the creolized spiritual landscape of postcolonial Gabon.” -- Marc Mvé Bekale * African Studies Review *“Florence Bernault offers an original and refreshing history of European-African colonial encounters in Gabon, Equatorial Africa. She does so by using a wealth of sources.... [Colonial Transactions] will appeal to scholars of colonialism in Africa and beyond, and to anyone interested in African spirituality and modernity.” -- Ndubueze L. Mbah * Journal of African History *“Bernault’s conception of colonialism as a transaction . . . does much to reconfigure understandings of power under colonialism. . . . [Colonial Transactions] should be read widely not just by scholars of history and gender but also by anthropologists and others interested in African studies or colonialism, more broadly.” -- Avenel Rolfsen * Gender & History *“Colonial Transactions expands our knowledge and refines our understanding of the two themes that stand at its center – witchcraft and colonialism. . . . No future research about witchcraft or about colonial relations will be able to ignore this fascinating and eye-opening book.” -- Ruth Ginio * Middle Ground Journal *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 1. A Siren, an Empty Shrine, and a Photograph 27 2. The Double Life of Charms 69 3. Carnal Fetishism 96 4. The Value of People 118 5. Cannibal Mirrors 138 6. Eating 168 Conclusion 194 Notes 205 Bibliography 293 Index 321

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, historicizing the most vivid imaginations and modes of power in Africa today: French obsessions with cannibals, the emergence of vampires and witches in the Gabonese imaginary, and the use ofhuman organs for fetishes. Struggling over objects, bodies, agency, and values, colonizers and colonized entered relations that are better conceptualized as 'transactions.' Together they also shared an awareness of how the colonial situation broke down moral orders and forced people to use the evil side of power. This foreshadowed the ways in which people exercise agency in contemporary Africa, as well as the proliferation of magical fears and witchcraft anxieties in present-day Gabon.Trade Review". . .This should be a key text for African studies and certainly for any collection centered on West and Central Africa." -- J. R. Kenyon * Choice *"Bernault's ability to trace . . . imaginaries throughout centuries of thought and praxis in both France and Gabon make this book a valuable addition to the historiography of west Africa." -- Amanda Ford * International Social Science Review *"Bernault’s book fills a void in many ways, providing an English-speaking audience with one among the very few in-depth studies out there on a nation and its people that certainly merit more attention." -- Cheryl Toman * Postcolonial Text *“A well-documented scholarly work enriched with an elegant style…. With this new book, Florence Bernault makes an invaluable contribution to African cultural anthropology by proposing an innovative approach to witchcraft that transcends the nativist paradigm and explores the intersecting third space of mutual influences (colonized/colonizers) from which arose the creolized spiritual landscape of postcolonial Gabon.” -- Marc Mvé Bekale * African Studies Review *“Florence Bernault offers an original and refreshing history of European-African colonial encounters in Gabon, Equatorial Africa. She does so by using a wealth of sources.... [Colonial Transactions] will appeal to scholars of colonialism in Africa and beyond, and to anyone interested in African spirituality and modernity.” -- Ndubueze L. Mbah * Journal of African History *“Bernault’s conception of colonialism as a transaction . . . does much to reconfigure understandings of power under colonialism. . . . [Colonial Transactions] should be read widely not just by scholars of history and gender but also by anthropologists and others interested in African studies or colonialism, more broadly.” -- Avenel Rolfsen * Gender & History *“Colonial Transactions expands our knowledge and refines our understanding of the two themes that stand at its center – witchcraft and colonialism. . . . No future research about witchcraft or about colonial relations will be able to ignore this fascinating and eye-opening book.” -- Ruth Ginio * Middle Ground Journal *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 1. A Siren, an Empty Shrine, and a Photograph 27 2. The Double Life of Charms 69 3. Carnal Fetishism 96 4. The Value of People 118 5. Cannibal Mirrors 138 6. Eating 168 Conclusion 194 Notes 205 Bibliography 293 Index 321

Read more less

Book SynopsisLeo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia, showing how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation, the U.S. military presence, and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region.Trade Review"Anti-Japan is a timely analysis of the complex relationships among countries in East Asia as the political and economic power relationship in the region is rapidly reconstructed." -- Linda Wang * International Social Science Review *“This creative, thought-provoking, and deeply insightful book speaks to multiple cross-disciplinary audiences, including specialists and general readers in East Asian history, culture, and politics. It would also be of interest to anyone interested in memory, postcolonial studies, nationalism, and postconflict resolution and reconciliation.” -- Seo-Hyun Park * Journal of Asian Studies *“Leo Ching’s book Anti-Japan is a timely and relevant addition to the discussions surrounding the recent developments in Northeast Asia.” -- Joon Oh * China Report *“This thought-provoking book will help readers reevaluate and contextualize various literary works, films, testimonies, music videos, video games, and other aspects of popular culture.... [T]his book provokes readers to reevaluate issues related to historical reconciliation in East Asia.” -- Takashi Yoshida * Journal of Japanese Studies *“What Ching’s book does to set it apart from what is a fairly crowded field is to situate his analysis across the disciplinary boundaries of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and the burgeoning studies of affect and emotions.... This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book and deserves to be read widely.” -- Caroline Rose * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Anti-Japanism (and Pro-Japanism) in East Asia 1 1. When Bruce Lee Meets Gojira: Transimperial Characters, Anti-Japanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Failure of Decolonization 19 2. "Japanese Devils": The Conditions and Limits of Anti-Japanism in China 36 3. Shameful Bodies, Bodily Shame: "Comfort Women" and Anti-Japanism in South Korea 57 4. Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Anxiety: The Dōsan Generation In-Between "Retrocession" and "Defeat" 80 5. "In the Name of Love": Critical Regionalism and Co-Viviality in Post-East Asia 98 6. Reconciliation Otherwise: Intimacy, Indigeneity, and the Taiwan Difference 115 Epilogue. From Anti-Japanism to Decolonizing Democracy: Youth Protests in East Asia 132 Notes 143 References 153 Index 161

Read more less

Book SynopsisAlthough the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In Anti-Japan Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia. Drawing on a mix of literature, film, testimonies, and popular culture, Ching shows how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation, the Cold War and the ongoing U.S. military presence, and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region. At the same time, pro-Japan sentiments in Taiwan reveal a Taiwanese desire to recoup that which was lost after the Japanese empire fell. Anti-Japanism, Ching contends, is less about Japan itself than it is about the real and imagined relationships between it and China, Korea, and Taiwan. Advocating for forms of healing that do not depend on state-based diplomacy, Ching suggests that reconciliation requires that Japan acknowledge and take responsibility for its imperial history.Trade Review"Anti-Japan is a timely analysis of the complex relationships among countries in East Asia as the political and economic power relationship in the region is rapidly reconstructed." -- Linda Wang * International Social Science Review *“This creative, thought-provoking, and deeply insightful book speaks to multiple cross-disciplinary audiences, including specialists and general readers in East Asian history, culture, and politics. It would also be of interest to anyone interested in memory, postcolonial studies, nationalism, and postconflict resolution and reconciliation.” -- Seo-Hyun Park * Journal of Asian Studies *“Leo Ching’s book Anti-Japan is a timely and relevant addition to the discussions surrounding the recent developments in Northeast Asia.” -- Joon Oh * China Report *“This thought-provoking book will help readers reevaluate and contextualize various literary works, films, testimonies, music videos, video games, and other aspects of popular culture.... [T]his book provokes readers to reevaluate issues related to historical reconciliation in East Asia.” -- Takashi Yoshida * Journal of Japanese Studies *“What Ching’s book does to set it apart from what is a fairly crowded field is to situate his analysis across the disciplinary boundaries of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and the burgeoning studies of affect and emotions.... This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book and deserves to be read widely.” -- Caroline Rose * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Anti-Japanism (and Pro-Japanism) in East Asia 1 1. When Bruce Lee Meets Gojira: Transimperial Characters, Anti-Japanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Failure of Decolonization 19 2. "Japanese Devils": The Conditions and Limits of Anti-Japanism in China 36 3. Shameful Bodies, Bodily Shame: "Comfort Women" and Anti-Japanism in South Korea 57 4. Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Anxiety: The Dōsan Generation In-Between "Retrocession" and "Defeat" 80 5. "In the Name of Love": Critical Regionalism and Co-Viviality in Post-East Asia 98 6. Reconciliation Otherwise: Intimacy, Indigeneity, and the Taiwan Difference 115 Epilogue. From Anti-Japanism to Decolonizing Democracy: Youth Protests in East Asia 132 Notes 143 References 153 Index 161

Read more less

Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies AssociationWinner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationHighlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican people Using a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghostedmiscategorized or erasedthe Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century despite its central place in the architecture of the Americas. Through a variety of Dominican cultural texts, from literature to public monuments to musical performance, it illuminates the Dominican quest for legibility and resistance. Dixa Ramírez places the Dominican people and Dominican expressive culture and history at the forefront of an insightful investigation of colonial modernity across the Americas and the African diaspora. In the process, she untangles the forms of free black subjectivity that developed on thTrade ReviewIn this piercing and important study, Dixa Ramírez has given scholars of the so-called New World an indelible intellectual gift.Scholarship of the highest order. -- Junot Díaz,Pulitzer Prize winner and author of This is How You Lose Her

Read more less

Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies AssociationWinner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationHighlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican people Using a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghostedmiscategorized or erasedthe Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century despite its central place in the architecture of the Americas. Through a variety of Dominican cultural texts, from literature to public monuments to musical performance, it illuminates the Dominican quest for legibility and resistance. Dixa Ramírez places the Dominican people and Dominican expressive culture and history at the forefront of an insightful investigation of colonial modernity across the Americas and the African diaspora. In the process, she untangles the forms of free black subjectivity that developed on thTrade ReviewIn this piercing and important study, Dixa Ramírez has given scholars of the so-called New World an indelible intellectual gift.Scholarship of the highest order. -- Junot Díaz,Pulitzer Prize winner and author of This is How You Lose Her

Read more less

Book SynopsisPresents thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. Given the recent global resurgence of interest in elite ownership patterns and their relationship to power and governance, Hintzen’s work assumes even more resonance beyond the shores of the Caribbean.

Read more less

Book SynopsisPresents thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. Given the recent global resurgence of interest in elite ownership patterns and their relationship to power and governance, Hintzen’s work assumes even more resonance beyond the shores of the Caribbean.

Read more less

Book SynopsisHow have different forms of colonialism shaped societies and their politics? William F. S. Miles focuses on the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa whose land is still split by an arbitrary boundary established by Great Britain and France at the turn of the century.

Read more less

Book SynopsisPartition—the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states—is often presented as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict. In the twentieth century, at least three new political entities—the Irish Free State, the Dominions (later Republics) of India and Pakistan, and the State of Israel—emerged as results of partition. This volume offers the first collective history of the concept of partition, tracing its emergence in the aftermath of the First World War and locating its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization. Making use of the transnational framework of the British Empire, which presided over the three major partitions of the twentieth century, contributors draw out concrete connections among the cases of Ireland, Pakistan, and Israel—the mutual influences, shared personnel, economic justifications, and material interests that propelled the idea of partition forward and resulted in the violent creation of new post-colonial political spaces. In so doing, the volume seeks to move beyond the nationalist frameworks that served in the first instance to promote partition as a natural phenomenon.Trade Review"It is fitting that this commendable revisionist history should appear a century after the end of World War I, when partition first emerged as a highly mobile, transnational paradigm. Tracing the movement of partition theories and practices across multiple colonial spaces, this volume resists both functional explanations and the balance-sheet approach in favor of a deeply historicized account of partition's multiple lives and afterlives across the twentieth century and beyond."—Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois"A historical sweep of the imperial origins, transnational dynamics, and local calamities of the era of territorial partitions; and a cautionary tale."—Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego"Dubnov and Robson offer a compelling and rich collection of essays that demonstrate the historical and theoretical complexities of the partitions projects. Reading this noteworthy volume will benefit historians, political scientists, and those interested in the historical relevance of partitions to the creation of the contemporary international order."––Or Rosenboim, Global Intellectual History"This edited volume provides a timely and much-needed contribution by situating partition within a rich transnational historical context to delineate its genealogy as much as its limitations....its analysis and transnational perspective are precious."—Leila Farsakh, Journal of Palestine Studies"[One] of the most well-integrated and well-written edited volumes of the British Empire's partitioning of Palestine, Ireland, and India ever produced....[A] rich exploration of multiple perceptions of partition, how partition was manipulated transnationally to serve select interests, and the lessons these cases have for understanding majorities, minorities, territorial control, and security in many of today's conflicts."—Carter Johnson, E-International Relations"The authors of Partitions provide a critical examination of humankind's new favorite fiction: the ethnostate. With its expansive subject matter, lucid argumentation and increasing relevancy, Partitions is an admirable work of collaborative scholarship."—Max Saltman, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs"Partitions offers critical and compelling reading for students and scholars of twentieth-century empire, Indian nationalism, Zionism, Palestine/Israel, and decolonization."—Elizabeth E. Imber, Journal of Israeli History"Although other histories of partition in Ireland, Israel and Palestine, and South Asia have been necessarily transnational in scope, Dubnov and Robson's anthology places scholars otherwise siloed in their respective postcolonial regions of expertise into fruitful conversation with each other."—Pankhuree Dube, Journal of British Studies

Read more less

Book SynopsisPartition—the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states—is often presented as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict. In the twentieth century, at least three new political entities—the Irish Free State, the Dominions (later Republics) of India and Pakistan, and the State of Israel—emerged as results of partition. This volume offers the first collective history of the concept of partition, tracing its emergence in the aftermath of the First World War and locating its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization. Making use of the transnational framework of the British Empire, which presided over the three major partitions of the twentieth century, contributors draw out concrete connections among the cases of Ireland, Pakistan, and Israel—the mutual influences, shared personnel, economic justifications, and material interests that propelled the idea of partition forward and resulted in the violent creation of new post-colonial political spaces. In so doing, the volume seeks to move beyond the nationalist frameworks that served in the first instance to promote partition as a natural phenomenon.Trade Review"It is fitting that this commendable revisionist history should appear a century after the end of World War I, when partition first emerged as a highly mobile, transnational paradigm. Tracing the movement of partition theories and practices across multiple colonial spaces, this volume resists both functional explanations and the balance-sheet approach in favor of a deeply historicized account of partition's multiple lives and afterlives across the twentieth century and beyond."—Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois"A historical sweep of the imperial origins, transnational dynamics, and local calamities of the era of territorial partitions; and a cautionary tale."—Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego"Dubnov and Robson offer a compelling and rich collection of essays that demonstrate the historical and theoretical complexities of the partitions projects. Reading this noteworthy volume will benefit historians, political scientists, and those interested in the historical relevance of partitions to the creation of the contemporary international order."––Or Rosenboim, Global Intellectual History"This edited volume provides a timely and much-needed contribution by situating partition within a rich transnational historical context to delineate its genealogy as much as its limitations....its analysis and transnational perspective are precious."—Leila Farsakh, Journal of Palestine Studies"[One] of the most well-integrated and well-written edited volumes of the British Empire's partitioning of Palestine, Ireland, and India ever produced....[A] rich exploration of multiple perceptions of partition, how partition was manipulated transnationally to serve select interests, and the lessons these cases have for understanding majorities, minorities, territorial control, and security in many of today's conflicts."—Carter Johnson, E-International Relations"The authors of Partitions provide a critical examination of humankind's new favorite fiction: the ethnostate. With its expansive subject matter, lucid argumentation and increasing relevancy, Partitions is an admirable work of collaborative scholarship."—Max Saltman, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs"Partitions offers critical and compelling reading for students and scholars of twentieth-century empire, Indian nationalism, Zionism, Palestine/Israel, and decolonization."—Elizabeth E. Imber, Journal of Israeli History"Although other histories of partition in Ireland, Israel and Palestine, and South Asia have been necessarily transnational in scope, Dubnov and Robson's anthology places scholars otherwise siloed in their respective postcolonial regions of expertise into fruitful conversation with each other."—Pankhuree Dube, Journal of British Studies

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe end of World War II heralded a new global order. Decolonization swept the world and the United Nations, founded in 1945, came to embody the hopes of the world's colonized people as an instrument of freedom. North Africa became a particularly contested region and events there reverberated around the world. In Morocco, the emerging nationalist movement developed social networks that spanned three continents and engaged supporters from CIA agents, British journalists, and Asian diplomats to a Coca-Cola manager and a former First Lady. Globalizing Morocco traces how these networks helped the nationalists achieve independence—and then enabled the establishment of an authoritarian monarchy that persists today. David Stenner tells the story of the Moroccan activists who managed to sway world opinion against the French and Spanish colonial authorities to gain independence, and in so doing illustrates how they contributed to the formation of international relations during the early Cold War. Looking at post-1945 world politics from the Moroccan vantage point, we can see fissures in the global order that allowed the peoples of Africa and Asia to influence a hierarchical system whose main purpose had been to keep them at the bottom. In the process, these anticolonial networks created an influential new model for transnational activism that remains relevant still to contemporary struggles. Trade Review"David Stenner's sophisticated study of the Moroccan nationalists' social-political international network innovates the conversation on modern Middle Eastern and decolonization history. This rich story reflects the all-out pragmatism of the Moroccans, and culminates in an ironic twist when the nationalists' network is turned into a domestic liability. A great, well-argued read." -- Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute * Geneva *"David Stenner's book is the best transnational history of Moroccan independence I've ever read, including work in French and Arabic. Globalizing Morocco is as deep as it is easy to read. A masterful success." -- Maâti Monjib, University of Mohammed V * Rabat *"David Stenner locates Moroccan nationalists at the vanguard of what would become a worldwide movement of anti-colonial revolutionaries—a full decade before the conference at Bandung, Moroccan activists navigated the global circuits of the Cold War world in pursuit of sovereignty.Globalizing Morocco is an important contribution to the new Cold War history and the history of decolonization." -- Paul Thomas Chamberlin * Columbia University *"Stenner's book is a great contribution to the research fields of anticolonialism and the history of decolonization. It confirms the multi-layered and multiplayer nature of anticolonial politics and the respective transition processes leading to the postcolonial period. It also provides interesting examples of how to use network approaches and Digital Humanities tools to deal with that complexity." -- Ana Moledo * H-Soz-Kult *"Stenner masterfully situates the [Moroccan] independence movement within the context of the rise of NATO, the UN, and the Arab League....this study offers an integrated, balanced account of the Moroccan nationalist movement situated within international events of the global 1940s and 1950s. Highly recommended." -- J. Tallon * CHOICE *"David Stenner's masterful new history of the Moroccan independence movement....delivers on virtually all fronts.The writing is lucid, argumentative, and focused on a few key arguments. It includes several never before seen photographs of the era. The source base reflects research in a truly impressive number of archives." -- Ann Marie Wainscott * H-Diplo *"Stenner's enticing book is about the globalizing strategy of the anticolonial struggle and it succeeds in masterfully showing the international networks of supporters that closely cooperated with Istiqlal and the nationalist movement.[An] important contribution to the history of nationalism in Morocco, especially to US-Moroccan history." -- Blanca Camps-Febrer * E-International Relations *"The originality of the study, the rigorous methodology developed by social network analysis, and the extensive use of sources in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, most of them traced to an impressive number of archives in Morocco, France, Spain, England, and United States, make Stenner's book a remarkable work....[Globalizing Morocco] makes an important contribution to the existing literature on Moroccan nationalism and the history of decolonization, introducing new and stimulating perspectives and results." -- Barbara De Poli * Bustan *"By introducing a novel way of thinking about the Moroccan anticolonial struggle that draws upon transnational network analysis, Stenner recovers an overlooked history....Stenner has written an excellent book that deserves serious consideration from all historians interested in anticolonial movements." -- Etty Terem * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Networked Anticolonial Activism chapter abstractThis chapter introduces the reader to the history of colonial Morocco and the nationalist movement before engaging with the scholarship on decolonization and the early Cold War. It specifically explores the following issues: How did the Moroccan nationalists successfully internationalize their call for an independent constitutional monarchy? How did they communicate their message abroad? What role did their transnational activism have on the process of state-formation following the end of the French and Spanish protectorates in 1956? In order to answer these questions, the chapter engages with social network analysis to demonstrate how Sultan Mohamed ben Youssef managed to weaken the political opposition after independence by co-opting the central players behind their international anticolonial campaign. The monarch thereby obtained the pivotal social and human capital necessary to secure the hegemony of the Alaoui royal family. 1Tangier: Gateway to the World chapter abstractThis chapter describes how the Moroccans made Tangier the central hub of their transnational advocacy campaign. In April 1951, the country's four anticolonial parties signed the National Pact to coordinate their activities on the exterior. Benefiting from the international city's unique legal status, they facilitated the flow of information and resources between the two protectorates and their propaganda offices abroad. Several US businessmen and the American Federation of Labor supported their activities against the explicit will of the US State Department. Moreover, the Moroccans recruited a couple of English journalists visiting the northern port city and thereby managed to bring their message to the Anglophone world. 2Cairo: The Search for Arab Solidarity chapter abstractThis chapter deals with the first Moroccan delegates to the Arab League in 1946, who eventually cofounded the Office of the Arab Maghrib together with activists from Algeria and Tunisia. Despite several setbacks, the North African nationalists achieved a series of impressive publicity successes that attracted the attention of the Islamic world at a time when most Arabs remained predominantly concerned with the issue of Palestine. But their campaign came to an abrupt halt when the Free Officers overthrew the Egyptian monarchy in July 1952 and established a revolutionary republic. Despite its public embrace of Pan-Arabism, the new regime undermined the Moroccan nationalists' activities in the Middle East by destabilizing their local network of supporters. The Arab League thus failed to provide substantive diplomatic support to the Moroccan campaign for independence. 3Paris: Conquering the Metropole chapter abstractThis chapter describes the nationalist propaganda activities in Paris following World War II. Organized around the Bureau du Parti de l'Istiqlal and supported by the large local community of Moroccan workers and students, the nationalists convinced many French elites of their demands. A heterogeneous alliance of both leftist politicians and Catholic intellectuals helped them bring the case of Morocco to public attention in the wake of a massacre committed by French troops in Casablanca in December 1952. The nationalists also lobbied the UN General Assembly, which met in Paris in 1948 and 1951, but without great success. Nonetheless, by the fall of 1955, a majority of delegates in the National Assembly opposed a continuation of the protectorate regime. 4New York: Capital of Diplomacy chapter abstractThis chapter examines how the nationalist movement sent its first delegate on a temporary assignment to the United Nations in 1947, where he created a large network of contacts in the corridors of the UN building in Lake Placid and drew considerable attention to the Moroccan case. By 1952, the anticolonial activists finally opened their permanent bureau, the Moroccan Office of Information and Documentation, in New York. Supported by their British mentor Rom Landau, they lobbied the American public and politicians as well as the diplomatic delegations to the UN through personal contacts and an elaborate media campaign. Deeply worried by these achievements, France conducted counterpropaganda to undermine their efforts. Although neither the Truman nor the Eisenhower administration openly embraced their demands, the Moroccans' activism in the United States put great international pressure on the government in Paris. 5Rabat: The Homecoming chapter abstractThis chapter deals with the process of state-formation after independence in 1956, which culminated in a power struggle between the royal palace and the Istiqlal Party. The now-king Mohamed V managed to co-opt the central nodes of the nationalist movement's transnational network of supporters by recruiting many of its members to work for the royal palace or sending them abroad as ambassadors. He thereby increased the social capital at his disposal while simultaneously weakening the Istiqlal. Even the nationalists' foreign associates now publicly embraced the monarch and thus legitimized his status. His successful state visit to the United States in November 1957 symbolized the triumph of the king, who had replaced the nationalist movement as the sole representative of the Moroccan nation. Conclusion: Decolonization Reconsidered chapter abstractThe conclusion discusses the larger insights gained from studying the history of the Moroccan liberation struggle. It reevaluates the process of decolonization by looking at the continuities between the colonial era and the postcolonial state. Moreover, it emphasizes the important roles played by nonstate actors in the making of the post-1945 international order despite the constraints imposed on them by the binary logic of the Cold War. Finally, it demonstrates that the pro-Western foreign policy pursued by the Moroccans after 1956 resulted from the nationalist movement's global campaign for independence. The legacy of the propaganda offices in New York, Cairo, and Paris thus continues to shape the North African kingdom today.

Read more less