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In 1944 Belgium was liberated at lightning speed. Past accounts have focussed on the stunning Allied victories and the initial euphoria of liberation... Læs mere
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This innovative account of revolutionary thought in South Asia explores the long-term legacies of militant violence and the... Læs mere
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This book offers a new, comparative account of the political ideas that arose in the... Læs mere
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From 1986 to 1994, East Africa's postcolonial, political order was profoundly challenged when four revolutionary 'liberation'... Læs mere
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This book studies Jawaharlal Nehru's use of internationalism and anti-imperialism to unite the Global South between the world wars... Læs mere
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Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in... Læs mere
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A study of Japan's acquisition of Korea. It shows how Japan's drive for empire was part of a larger goal to become the economic, diplomatic, and strategic equal of the Western countries who had imposed a humiliating treaty settlement on the country in the 1850s.
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This work examines cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule, exploring Russia's role as a colonial power and the politics of Islamic reform movements. It describes how the Jadids sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture by adapting it to the modern state.
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Based on three years of field work with the Kodi people of Sumba, Indonesia, this ethnographical study focuses on Kodi calendar rituals, exchange transactions and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world.
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These two memoirs provide windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early 20th-century history of south-east Asia, in general. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers tell the story of their country's turbulent journey to independence.
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Adopting the metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers, this title provides an original approach to understanding the development of English and Spanish America over the past 500 years.