The diplomacy of decolonisation

American, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-1964

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American relationship, the book reveals how the UN helped position this event as a lightning rod in ...

Europe and its shadows

coloniality after Empire

Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous. Exploring the fear and fascination associated with the continent as an allegory, Hamid Dabashi considers Europe to be a historically formed barricade ...

The poisoned well

empire and its legacy in the Middle East

The conflicts and crises of today's Middle East are rooted in the colonial era. To better understand them, we need to acknowledge how Western imperialism negatively shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between World War I and the happenings of the ...

Dominación sin hegemonía

historia y poder en la India colonial

¿Qué es el colonialismo? ¿Qué es un Estado colonial? Con estas preguntas se inicia la investigación de este libro ya clásico de los Estudios Subalternos. Ranajit Guha muestra aquí cómo el Estado colonial en el subcontinente indio, y en general en casi todas las viejas ...

Anatomía de un Imperio

Estados Unidos y América Latina

Reflexión sobre el problema del imperialismo norteamericano y las relaciones que este estableció con América Latina, desde el final del siglo XIX hasta principios del XXI. Se analiza la actuación imperialista de los Estados Unidos en Centroamérica y Sudamérica antes y después de la Segunda ...

Egypt

british colony, imperial capital

This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W. Said's classic Orientalism. Arguing that Said's analysis offered only the dominant discourse in imperial ...

Al Ándalus en Marruecos

el verdadero legado del colonialismo español en el Marruecos Contemporáneo

Último ensayo del renombrado especialista norteamericano Eric Calderwood, este libro examina la cultura, la política y el legado del colonialismo español en Marruecos (1859-1956) y traza la genealogía de un tópico muy extendido sobre ese país: la idea de que la cultura marroquí moderna proviene ...

Decolonization

a short history

A concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth century The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new ...

The british imperial century, 1815-1914

a world history perspective

The British Imperial Century provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the formation and administration of the empire from its origins in the early nineteenth century, to its climax at mid-century, to its denouement on the eve of the First World War. Considering the impact ...

Colonialismo

historia, formas, efectos

El ejercicio del dominio colonial tiene una única dirección, de los poderosos a los colonizados. El desplegado por los europeos –y, en la primera mitad del siglo xx, también por norteamericanos y japoneses– fue característica sobresaliente de la historia del mundo desde la Edad Moderna ...

The struggle against imperialism

anticolonialism and the Cold War

This concise and engaging text argues that the Cold War and anti-colonial movements should properly be studied and taught together, not as distinct developments, but rather as interwoven aspects of a complex global transformation. The authors provide a cogent and concise description of the post-World ...

Amritsar 1919

an Empire of fear and the making of a massacre

A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire-the Amritsar Massacre-to mark its 100th anniversary The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was a seminal moment in the history of the British Empire, yet it remains poorly understood. In this ...

Mohandas Gandhi

experiments in civil disobedience

Mohandas Gandhi, icon of Indian liberation, remains an inspiration for anti-capitalists and peace activists globally. His campaigns for national liberation based on non-violence and mass civil disobedience were critical to defeating the power of the British Empire. This biography examines his campaigns from South Africa ...

Historia colonial de Marruecos

(1894-1961)

Historia colonial de Marruecos explora la historia marroquí en el período comprendido desde 1894, año de la muerte del sultán Muley Hassan, a 1961, fecha del fallecimiento del rey Muhammad V. Se trata del período en el cual el colonialismo franco-español desestabilizó y estabilizó el ...

Pensamiento político y modernidad en la India

Tagore, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Nehru

La India moderna, la mayor democracia del mundo, es una de las grandes desconocidas en el campo de la historia de las ideas en el mundo académico hispanohablante. Esta obra busca ayudar a reparar dicha laguna a través de un estudio del pensamiento de cuatro ...

Cultures of decolonisation

transnational productions and practices, 1945-70

Cultures of decolonisation combines studies of visual, literary and material cultures in order to explore the complexities of the 'end of empire' as a process. Where other accounts focus on high politics and constitutional reform, this volume reveals the diverse ways in which cultures contributed ...

Empress

Queen Victoria and India

An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837 In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and ...

Accounting for slavery

masters and management

Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizations and used complex accounting tools. By demonstrating that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery.

Communal violence in the British Empire

disturbing the Pax

Joint winner of the North American Conference on British Studies 2017 Stansky Book Prize for the best book on British Studies since 1800 Communal Violence in the British Empire focuses on how Britons interpreted, policed, and sometimes fostered violence between different ethnic and religious communities ...

Los condenados de la Tierra

Esta obra clásica de la descolonización ha resistido la prueba del tiempo y se sitúa al lado de obras hermanas como las de Aimé Césaire y Albert Memmi. La voz de Fanon es una guía y alimento espiritual en las luchas de liberación de los ...