National liberation & independence, post-colonialism books

Dalton was only fourteen when he joined the Irish Volunteers in 1917 and by 1920 he had been appointed to Michael...  Read More >>

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Le titre - La France a l'oppose d'elle-meme: essais d'histoire politique de l'Oceanie - peut surprendre. Il joue...  Read More >>

This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. This study takes an integrative...  Read More >>

The book shows how teachers struggled to liberate their country's education system from the legacy of dictatorship,...  Read More >>

Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of...  Read More >>

This book explores the impact of the Napoleonic wars on Danish-Norwegian society and accounts for war experiences...  Read More >>

The definitive account of the controversial killings in Dunmanway, West Cork, in 1922 which have always been shrouded...  Read More >>

Concise but informative book on Bannockburn, 700 years after the momentous Scottish battle, covering the patriot...  Read More >>

In West African Countries and Peoples, published in 1868, Sierra Leone-born doctor James Africanus Beale Horton...  Read More >>

Although the Falklands War of 1982 had a decisive outcome in respect to the restoration of British control, it failed...  Read More >>

First published in 1929, this presents some reflections from one of the leading cultural commenters of his day,...  Read More >>

Originally published: Boston: Lea and Shepard, 1898.  Read More >>

In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph...  Read More >>

Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization....  Read More >>

My book draws on studies shows how the neo-baroque can be understood as a strategy that allows artists in Latin...  Read More >>

Moving beyond the current fixation on ""state construction,"" the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores...  Read More >>

The problem faced by Acholi leaders of Northern Uganda, during a time of transition from the end of a 20+ year conflict...  Read More >>

Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes the vanished commercial world of colonial Java. Alexander...  Read More >>

Examines the relationship between the British government, the Palace, and the modern Commonwealth since 1945 and...  Read More >>

This text is the first in many years to address the histories and cultures of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana...  Read More >>

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The book is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that European concepts of time were imposed...  Read More >>