Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as the history of empires. While historians have approached this subject in very different ways, their shared preoccupation with the British imperial experience-its institutions, ideas and impact on peoples around the world-has endured and given rise to a rich, varied, and influential body of historical scholarship. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the historical imagination? How has it endured as an active area of inquiry even as the empire it studies slips...

Between 2008 and 2011, Nigeria's Abia State witnessed a flourishing of several brutal criminal gangs. Unsurprisingly the victims were predominantly vulnerable ordinary citizens and strangers. As Abia State collapsed into anarchy, the violent perpetrators resorted to increasingly debased tactics to terrorize their victims using rape and forced incest to achieve their objectives.

"You're Ordered to Rape Your Own Sister or Be Shot" tells the story of Mama-Oma and her three children, David, Nma, and Chidi. Raiders shoot Nma dead and then present Mama-Oma with a terrible choice: command her...

An introduction to the contemporary challenges states in the developing world face, and to the ways in which they can build capacity to handle them. It examines the key institutions of the state, the challenges of institutional reform, and the importance of institutional reform in achieving development.

An introduction to the contemporary challenges states in the developing world face, and to the ways in which they can build capacity to handle them. It examines the key institutions of the state, the challenges of institutional reform, and the importance of institutional reform in achieving development.

"Unconditional Equality" examines Mahatma Gandhi s critique of liberal ideas of freedom and equality and his own practice of a freedom and equality organized around religion. It reconceives satyagraha (passive resistance) as a politics that strives for the absolute equality of all beings. Liberal traditions usually affirm an abstract equality centered on some form of autonomy, the Kantian term for the everyday sovereignty that rational beings exercise by granting themselves universal law. But for Gandhi, such equality is an equality of sword profoundly violent not only because it excludes...

This book focuses on African political thought, as it emerged in the context of and contributed to fundamental changes in world order during the twentieth century, and as it continues to speak to the present global condition. The six chapters form a set of close readings of 20th century African political theorists insofar as their work forms part of a conversation that Africa had with itself and with the rest of the world regarding freedom, independence, emancipation and statehood, as well as forming part of the larger global conversations within which these theorists can be situated. The...