Deadly Embrace explains how the Francoist forces were unable to defeat Moroccan guerillas and turned to chemical weapons to break the impasse. Later the Francoists used Moroccan troops to destroy the Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War. Combining military, political, c…
The book illuminates the political process that over the course of six generations brought about the personalization of authority in Liberia; and it links that system of personal rule to the highly centralized structures of the postcolonial state. The book concludes by exploring…
A re-evaluation of British Imperialism in nineteenth-century China from the perspective of postcolonial theory.
Inserting China into the history of 19th century colonialism, this text explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multi-power invasions of China in 1860 and 1900.
In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time when tourism and colonialism had already turned the exotic into the familiar, …
"Frontier Constitutions is a pathbreaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born Creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish), and indigenous colonial subjects in the Philippines during the nineteenth-century crisis of colonial hegemony, an…
Suitable for both undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection aims to provide an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of Third World and Western thinkers, both historical…
Comprises a dozen contributions, focusing on men as gendered actors, the social construction of masculinity, masculinity as a relational category, and hegemonic or subordinate masculinities. Reflects on developments from colonialism to independence in seven sub-Saharan countries.
How do a legal order and the rule of law develop in a war-torn state? Using his field research in Sudan, the author uncovers how colonial administrators, postcolonial governments, and international aid agencies have used legal tools, practices, and resources to promote stability…
The concern with identity and belonging, with place/dis-placement is a major feature of postcolonial literature and the theme of alienation cannot but be "topical" in the literatures of the countries that have experienced the cultural shock and bereavement, and the physical and …
The concern with identity and belonging, with place/dis-placement is a major feature of postcolonial literature and the theme of alienation cannot but be ""topical"" in the literatures of the countries that have experienced the cultural shock and bereavement, and the physical an…
During the closing years of the sixteenth century, the Dutch East India Company fast became a political and economic force in Asia, en route to becoming the leading private company in the world by 1660. This definitive volume explores perhaps the most important tool in the compa…
