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Book SynopsisBased on three decades of fieldwork throughout the developing world, this book helps you evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World.
Trade Review"By focusing on the experiences of partitioned peoples in specific borderlands, Miles offers a rigorous political assessment of the global legacies of colonialisms in the twenty-first century."—Kate Marsh,
Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies"A pioneering, thoroughly researched and elegantly written piece of work, which is the first of its kind to offer perspectives on the British and French imperial experiences through their 'contact zones'."—Berny Sebe,
French History"William Miles’s Scars of partition is an enormously ambitious work."—Mark Leopold,
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“This splendid volume is a seminal contribution to the comparative study of colonialism, decolonization, and colonial legacy. . . . A magnum opus embodying a lifetime of careful research, and a strikingly original research design.”—Crawford Young, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesPreface and Acknowledgments1. Anglo-French Partition and Postcolonialism2. Classical Colonial Partition: West Africa3. Partition by Island: West Indies4. Political Arbitrariness of Archipelagoes: The South Pacific5. Soft, Sequential, and Hybridic Colonialism: French India and the Indian Ocean6. Mainland Southeast Asia and the Conundrum of Communism7. Scars of Partition in Postcolonial Borderlands and BeyondNotesBibliographyIndex
