National Liberation & Independence, Post-colonialism

An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. Th...

The diaries of Dr Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi offer a unique insight to the peculiarities of colonialism that have shaped Palestinian history. Electe...

The role of the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) has long been neglected by historians, in part because they have been...

The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918. The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the first ...

From a much neglected Portuguese colony to independence, Timor-Leste travelled a belated, long and troubled journey that included a 24-year Indones...

As a Princely State, Hyderabad was the largest in population among over 560 tributary states under British paramountcy in colonial India. This book...

Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John Darwin contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and decline of empires. ...

Many would rather change worlds than change the world. The settlement of communities in 'empty lands' somewhere else has often been proposed as a s...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, A...

Winston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a la...

This is the first book-length study of the groundbreaking work of Rey Chow, whose work has transformed the fields of postcolonialism, cultural stud...

This present work brings to light the educational project developed by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIG...

'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it...

Even to experts, Colombia is one of the most confusing countries in the Americas. Its democratic tradition is among the richest and most long-stand...

Newly updated, this accessible history explores the origins and development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Why has it proved so intractable, ...

This book presents an overview of the direct and indirect ways in which Europe continues to be influenced by its entrenched postcolonial condition....

Rhodesia’s illegal Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965 is an act that not only shaped regional politics but also had a profound ef...

July 1991 was a momentous month in the contemporary economic history of India, when a market-friendly set of policies shifted the centre of country...

Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation explores the subject of liberalism and its uses and contradictions across the late British Empire...

What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Le...

The Education of John Adams is a concise biography of John Adams (1735-1826), the first by a biographer with legal training. It examines his origin...

Australia’s official Reconciliation project confronted Australians with the continuous violent dispossession suffered by the country’s Indigenous p...

Remodelling to Prepare for Independence: The Philippine Commonwealth, Decolonisation, Cities and Public Works, c. 1935–46 illuminates the implicati...

Uncovers a distinctly Scottish experience of the Second World War Provides an original overview of Scottish society during the Second World War Th...