National Liberation & Independence, Post-colonialism

I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier i...

'An inspiring call to action that deconstructs the many oppressive systems we currently find ourselves struggling against' - Adam Horowitz, Mondowe...

Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encom...

Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanons work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists ...

Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth-century's most influential theorists and activists, whose work fighting against colonialism and imperialism h...

This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story b...

Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm gathers an introduction and ten chapters concerned wit...

The first serious full-length biography of former Ugandan president Idi Amin, modern Africas most famous dictatorA nuanced and sophisticated examin...

Co-Winner, 2023 Chidananda Dasgupta Award for the Best Writing on Cinema, Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial TrustShortlisted, 2022 MSA Book Prize, Moder...

Co-Winner, 2023 Chidananda Dasgupta Award for the Best Writing on Cinema, Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial TrustShortlisted, 2022 MSA Book Prize, Moder...

What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine He...

What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine He...

Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Kingdom and Pan-Africanism ReInterpreted, 1909-1972 provides an in-depth study of the life of the late Pan-African leader...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The world-historical significance...

Cutting across academic boundaries, this volume brings together scholars from different disciplines who have explored together the richness and com...

Passionate allegiances to competing theoretical camps have stifled dialogue among today's literary critics, asserts Françoise Lionnet. Discussing a...

The Scottish independence debate has consequences for Scotland, British politics, the future of the UK - and internationally. In Scotland Rising, ...

This is the first major attempt to view the break-up of Britain as a global phenomenon, incorporating peoples and cultures of all races and creeds ...

This book questions the accepted origins of the field of International Relations (IR). Commonly understood to have emerged from the horrors of WW1 ...

Modern Britain is forged through the redeployment of structures that facilitated and legitimized slavery, exploitation and extermination. This is t...

Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as a...

Is Stuart Hall a Cultural Studies Scholar or a Postcolonial Scholar? Or is it better to engage with his work as an intellectual of both fields? Po...

For many, the advent of globalization brought with it an end to the way that the world had been viewed previous to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Amo...

This book is a history of the three Guianas, now known as Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. Though histories of each of the countries exist, th...

For over five decades, North Korea has outlived many forecasts of collapse despite defects in its system. Origins of North Korea’s Juche: Coloniali...

This is a history book that studies the thought and actions of José Gervasio Artigas throughout the decade of his prominence (1810 –1820) as leader...

This book is a critical reposition of the study of military regimes in Africa. Documenting and delving deep into the reign and rule of General Moha...

Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism examines how real and literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a postcolonial wor...

From a colonial campaign that was envisioned by France as the redemption of its Algerian “children" through Western civilization to Algerian Indepe...

Against a disturbing political backdrop and through an in-depth appraisal of selected illustrative texts from major genres—poetry, prose, and drama...

Undoubtedly one of Africa’s most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction as well as his...

During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strateg...

For over five decades, North Korea has outlived many forecasts of collapse despite defects in its system. Origins of North Korea’s Juche: Coloniali...

The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave ...

The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave ...