This dissertation argues that the French political doctrine of integrationism, which acted as a palliative to Algerian nationalist demands for independence in the final years of the colonial war, survived the fall of formal empire in 1962. Just as the policy of integration provi…
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This thesis studies the 1960s and 1970s in Pakistan. It is argued here that this period saw a concerted effort across the political spectrum to bring the nation into closer proximity with the state. There was a dominant move in the late 1960s and early 1970s towards decolonizing…
This dissertation examines the long struggle of the United States to deal with the questions of the decolonization of Algeria and the postwar struggle of nationalist movements for independence from European empires. By examining the specific case of the development and implement…
Throughout the 1950s, as international anti-colonialism gained momentum, the US government showed consistent support for its colonial allies, particularly Britain. Washington pursued this course even at the risk of losing the cold war sympathy of the newly-independent peoples, w…
This dissertation examines Britain's attempt to create and maintain a friendly independent state in South Arabia during the period from 1956 to 1967. After the evacuation from Suez in 1956 the Crown Colony of Aden became the centerpiece for British policy in the Middle East. The…
The dissertation explores the relationship between European literary heritage and native experience in the poetry of Tagore, Yeats, Senghor, Césaire, and Neruda, and anticipates patterns in the development of postcolonial literatures during the twentieth century. The different n…
This projects engages with trends in postcolonial studies that view anticolonial resistance as resistance to capital, and argues instead, through readings of Marx Lukacs, and Fanon, that the moment of decolonization actually marks the moment at which the ex-colonies enter the wo…
This study investigates the politics of violence in colonization and decolonization in selected postcolonial plays with the application of Frantz Fanon's philosophy of revolutionary decolonization. Fanon argues that since colonialism is violent in nature, it can be defeated only…
This thesis examines the relationship between the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and the Africa Inland Church (AIC) in Kenya between 1939 and 1975. AIM began laying plans for an African denomination in Kenya in 1939 and established the Africa Inland Church in 1943. The mission did …
The main purpose of the thesis is to explore the role of colonial police forces in anglophone Africa in the period between 1947 and 1964/5 when the transition from colonial dependencies to independent nation-states took place. The police are an important component of all modern …
National Conferences of Catholic Bishops throughout the world have assumed new postures as watchdogs regarding state policies and programs in the post Vatican II period, and increasingly asserted themselves in the public arena with emphasis on social action and human rights issu…
This dissertation examines settler fear of 'natives' and its 'unsettling' impact on decolonization in French Algeria. The work employs extensive archival research, historiographical critique, and theoretic reasoning to argue that French Algeria's so-called pieds-noirs community …
This dissertation is a study of one of the most important but largely overlooked legacies of decolonization in French Algeria—the displacement of almost one million settlers and pro-French natives who fled the colony after independence and the history of their troubled insertion…
My dissertation investigates representations of interracial desire in South Asian British diasporic literature and film and in neo-imperial narratives of the 'war on terror'. Drawing upon theoretical insights from anti-racist feminism, decolonization and black British cultural s…
French colonialism in North Africa dramatically impacted the conduct of American diplomatic and military policies between 1940 and 1943. Viewing French occupation of North Africa as lacking legitimacy, the U.S. perceived the Muslim population as an easy target for German propaga…
Britain's presence in Palestine coincided with a promise to Zionists to support the establishment of a Jewish national home. For two decades, Britain continued to support Zionist aims in Palestine including immigration and colonization, even in the aftermath of the first phase o…
This dissertation project examines the role of identity, the politics of identity contestation and domestic political structures as part of the mechanisms and processes that may be involved in the decisions that states make regarding disengagement from their colonial and territo…
My dissertation explores civil violence in the postcolony and its representation in contemporary literature. Whether in the form of civil war in Algeria, genocide in Rwanda or religious riots in India, these events are a direct result of the political, legal and intellectual fou…