National Liberation & Independence, Post-colonialism

Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular bec...

Following an introductory chapter exploring why political argument deals in probability and plausibility across interdependent areas of social acti...

Africanizing Democracies examines the ways in which Africans have constructed and reshaped democracy in order to fit their own political ideals and...

In the 1940s and 1950s Ernie OMalley interviewed survivors of Irelands struggle for independence. These interviews, now being made available to the...

On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colon...

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulnesstells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous ...

First published in 1949, 'Guerilla Days in Ireland' is an extraordinary story of the Irish War of Independence and the fight between two unequal fo...

During the Irish Civil War, events of late 1922 and early 1923 together with waves of dishonourable killings created poisoned relations between Rep...

A sensational affair.. carried out with great audacity - New York Times. An astonishing act of piracy, the capture of the British war ship, the Upn...

Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global colo...

This essential book explores the early years of military rule following the Free Officers' coup of 1952. Enriched by interviews with actors in and ...