In The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about who - France or the National Liberation Front (FLN)-would exercise sovereignty of Algeria. The fight b…
'Europe after empire' is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of postwar decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward…
Postcolonial studies and beyond
An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to envision a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this text assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments. "An interdisciplinary collection of essays desi…
An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to envision a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this text assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to envision a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this text assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments. "An interdisciplinary collection of essays desi…
Scope and content: "The Defiant Border explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls from the colonial period into the twenty-first century. This book looks at local Pashtun tribes' modes for evading first British colonial, then…
"Explores the paradigm of "area studies" - a way of supporting regionally-focused collecting, processing, and liaison work - in the academic library, through an explicitly anti-colonial lens"--
"Explores the paradigm of "area studies" - a way of supporting regionally-focused collecting, processing, and liaison work - in the academic library, through an explicitly anti-colonial lens"--
Introduction : transpacific cold war formations and the question of (un)redressability -- Liminal justice : Okinawa -- Liberation under siege : Japanese women -- Sovereignty, apology, forgiveness : revisionisms -- Contagious justice : Asian/America -- Complicit amnesia : for tra…
Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a ""transborder redress culture"" that has the potential to bring powerful challenging perspectives on Amer…
Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a ""transborder redress culture"" that has the potential to bring powerful challenging perspectives on Amer…
"Qui, en France, connaît C. L. R. James? Né en 1901 à Trinidad, alors colonie de la Couronne britannique, et mort à Londres en 1989, celui que le Times dénomma à la fin de sa vie le « Platon noir de notre génération » est pourtant une figure intellectuelle et politique majeure d…
