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

In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable.

It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as...

Javeed Alam was born on 12 August 1943 to Khadija and Alam Khundmiri in what was...

First published in 1929, this book was intended to explain, "with documentary evidence," the main principles and ideas for which Gandhi had stood over the course of his career up until that point. The author draws upon his long and intimate personal relationship with Gandhi to give an authoritative and individual account of a man whose politics and philosophy has invited continuing analysis -- extended with illustrative selections from his speeches and writings. The context in which Gandhi's ideas were formed and developed provides the focus for this book with the first part examining the...

Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: "kings," royals banished as political exiles; "convicts," the vast majority of those whose lives are explored in this volume, sent halfway across the world with often unexpected consequences; and...

Why is it that certain minorities in Europe are seen as a threat to social cohesion?

Most literature views the issues raised by minorities through either the lens of immigration or the assimilation paradigm. In Postcolonial minorities in Britain and France, Shailja Sharma offers an alternative, redefining the discourse of 'us-versus-them' by locating its origins in this schism between nation and state. Modern migrants find themselves caught between these two entities - their presence and status is regulated by the state but their level of assimilation and...

Kenya's white settlers have long captivated observers. They are alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers, hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. However, if we wish to better understand Kenya's tortured history, we must examine settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment.

The souls of white folk offers a striking new interpretation of white settlement in early colonial Kenya by interrogating settlers' lives. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their...