National Liberation & Independence, Post-colonialism

The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe, 1943-1948, regards the final two years of World War II and the immediate post-liberation period as a mo...

This timely book fills a lacuna in the extensive literature on Churchill's life and times. It covers his long relationship with Africa during the m...

The independence of Mozambique in 1975 and its decolonisation process attracted worldwide attention as a successful example of national unity. Yet,...

The Awakening of Indian Women is a classic work of anti-imperial feminist theory. Kamaladevi Chattophadyay offers a clear vision of India liberated...

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the colonial administrations in British East-Central African colonies considered inter-raci...

This concise people's history of Europe tells the story of the last hundred years of a very old continent and the ordinary people that shaped the e...

The history of Canadas postwar foreign policy is dominated by Cold War narratives the Gouzenko Affair, UN peacekeeping missions, and the Cuban Mis...

The independence movements of Spanish America in the early nineteenth century constitute one of the main junctures in Latin American history. Not o...

After years of subjugation by the British colonial rulers, India attained a status of Independent State on 15 August 1947, a day to be reckoned wit...

Winner of the 2020 Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize Winner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Stu...

A deeply felt and engaging personal account of Zimbabwe's political awakening by one of its best-known historians. I did not set out for Rhodesi...

'This is proper history. It is illuminating to pick up this book with the twenty-first century's crises of Brexit and Iraq in mind.' Jeremy Bowen (...

In this book Michele L. Louro compiles the debates, introduces the personalities, and reveals the ideas that seeded Jawaharlal Nehru's political vi...

This is history bursting at the seams with English eccentrics and Indian gentrythe charm of Tunzelmanns approach is to restore her cast to full and...

Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhis Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms ...

Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhis Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms ...

A decade into its hard-won democracy, South Africa and its ruling party, the ANC, have been through turbulent times. Confrontation between Thabo Mb...

This book compares the postcolonial populations of Britain and France, examining the ways in which they are redefining citizenship. Bearing in mind...

Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the coloniality of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino schol...

Much has been written about 'Big Jim' Larkin but, remarkably, this is the first full-length biography. Through the research of leading Labour histo...