National Liberation & Independence, Post-colonialism

The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin - it changed the course of Irish history. But why did it happen? What was...

After centuries of British rule, nobody expected Indian Independence and the birth of Pakistan to be so bloody they were supposed to be the answer...

More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Libertys Exiles is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historians most challenging ambit...

Beginning by drawing parallels between the author's experiences at the British Embassy in Kabul from 2010 to 2013 and her grandfather's experiences...

It is love of country that inspires us; not hate of the enemy   Terence MacSwiney, the renowned Republican lord mayor of Cork, died on 25 October ...

The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it became po...

A unique event-the handing over of an entire country by another that did not own it, to a people who simply laid claim to it by virtue of their myt...

Beyond the affluent centre of Paris and other French cities, in the deprived banlieues, a war is going on. This is the French Intifada, a guerrilla...

Notes from Africa traces the rise of popular music on the continent beginning in the 1980s when the term world music was coined as a marketing lab...

A definitive account of the cultural and political impact on Wales of the flooding of the Tryweryn Valley. The failure of the nation to block the m...

Preface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney FoundationIntroduction by Robin D.G. KelleyAfterword by Vijay PrashadIn his short life, the Guyanes...