National liberation & independence, post-colonialism books

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War for the Hell of It: A Fighter Pilot's View of Vietnam

War for the Hell of It: A Fighter Pilot's View of Vietnam...

Author: Ed Cobleigh
ISBN: 9781629670713
Format: Paperback
$49.14

What's it like to fight an air war? What's Mach 2? How does night ground attack feel? How was the Phantom to fly?...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity

Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity...

Author: Françoise Lionnet
ISBN: 9780801481802
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Discussing a variety of postcolonial narratives written by women, Lionnet offers a comparative feminist approach...  Read More >>

With the Irish in Frongoch

With the Irish in Frongoch

Author: Mr W. J. Brennan-Whitmore
ISBN: 9781781171677
Format: Paperback
$32.34

A classic account, first published in 1917, written by one of the inmates, of the Welsh internment camp where the...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity

Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity...

Author: Françoise Lionnet
ISBN: 9780801429842
Format: Hardback
$279.45

Discussing a variety of postcolonial narratives written by women, Lionnet offers a comparative feminist approach...  Read More >>

Guerilla Days in Ireland

Guerilla Days in Ireland

Author: Tom Barry
ISBN: 9781781171714
Format: Paperback
$58.05

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The Chiefs' Country: Leadership and Politics in Honiara, Soloman Islands

The Chiefs' Country: Leadership and Politics in Honiara,...

Author: Michael Kwa'ioloa ,  Ben Burt
ISBN: 9781921902246
Format: Paperback
$61.97

In this autobiographical account of life in the capital of the Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa'ioloa reflects on the...  Read More >>

Independence in Latin America: Contrasts and Comparisons

Independence in Latin America: Contrasts and Comparisons...

Author: Richard Graham
ISBN: 9780292745346
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Extensively revised to incorporate the latest interpretations and address issues of race and gender as well as of...  Read More >>

Reading Rey Chow: Visuality, Postcoloniality, Ethnicity, Sexuality

Reading Rey Chow: Visuality, Postcoloniality, Ethnicity,...

Author: Paul Bowman
ISBN: 9781433119279
Format: Paperback
$142.43

A study of the work of Rey Chow, whose work has transformed the fields of postcolonialism, cultural studies, film,...  Read More >>

Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (c. 1780-1867)

Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom...

Author: Timothy J. Stapleton
ISBN: 9781554585939
Format: Paperback
$129.33

From roughly 1818 to 1867, Faku was ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom located in what is now the north-east section of...  Read More >>

La Terre de Bouddha - Artistic Impressions of French Indochina

La Terre de Bouddha - Artistic Impressions of French...

Author: Pierre Rey ,  André Joyeux
ISBN: 9781934431917
Format: Hardback
$92.27

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Ghosts of Empire

Ghosts of Empire

Author: Kwasi Kwarteng
ISBN: 9781610392327
Format: Paperback
$65.97

This revelatory history of the legacy of the British empire and its unintended consequences marks the brilliant...  Read More >>

Governing New Guinea: An Oral History of Papuan Administrators, 1950-1990

Governing New Guinea: An Oral History of Papuan Administrators,...

Author: Leontine Visser
ISBN: 9789067183932
Format: Paperback
$153.12

This is the first time that indigenous Papuan administrators share with an international public their experiences...  Read More >>

Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation: The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation

Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation: The Kariba...

Author: J. Tischler
ISBN: 9781137268761
Format: Hardback
$316.77

'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Focusing on a case study of the...  Read More >>

Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa: Possession and Dispossession on the Orange River

Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa:...

Author: E. Cavanagh
ISBN: 9781137305763
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This local history of Griqua Philippolis (1824-1862) and Afrikaner Orania (1990-2013) gets at the crux of the ever-pertinent...  Read More >>

The Immobile Empire

The Immobile Empire

Author: Alain Peyrefitte
ISBN: 9780345803955
Format: Paperback
$66.00

In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians,...  Read More >>

Africa Has a Future

Africa Has a Future

Author: Peter Mutanda Wandebele
ISBN: 9781484044407
Format: Paperback
$26.37

As acknowledged in this book, there is no 'one size fits all' answer to the issues facing Africa. Peter's work identifies...  Read More >>

Contesting Nation – Gendered Violence in South Asia: Notes on the Postcolonial Present

Contesting Nation – Gendered Violence in South Asia:...

Author: Angana P. Chatterji ,  Lubna Nazir Chaudhry
ISBN: 9789381017876
Format: Hardback
$62.10

An innovative collection of essays on the turmoil spreading across South Asia, Contesting Nation sheds light on...  Read More >>

Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East

Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional...

Author: Elizabeth F. Thompson
ISBN: 9780674073135
Format: Hardback
$90.95

The Arab Spring uprising of 2011 is portrayed as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries were—and...  Read More >>

Free and French in the Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition

Free and French in the Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture,...

Author: John Patrick Walsh
ISBN: 9780253006271
Format: Hardback
$122.95

Offers a deeper understanding of the historical and contemporary problem of ""free and French"" in the Caribbean...  Read More >>

Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir

Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir...

Author: Sanjay Kak
ISBN: 9781608462520
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A collection of authoritative essays mapping Kashmir's turbulent past, present, and possible futures.  Read More >>

Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria

Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria...

Author: Edward Welch (School of Language and Literature, University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)) ,  Joseph McGonagle (School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781846318849
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This study investigates how relations between France and Algeria have been represented and contested through visual...  Read More >>

Nigeria Ojukwu Azikiwe Biafra Beyond the Rising Sun

Nigeria Ojukwu Azikiwe Biafra Beyond the Rising Sun...

Author: S Okechukwu Mezu ,  Dr S Okechukwu Mezu
ISBN: 9780878310715
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Nigeria Ojukwu Azikiwe Biafra: Beyond the Rising Sun. The book deals with the post independent climate in Nigeria,...  Read More >>

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