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Empire as the Triumph of Theory
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 180.00Who were the first people to invent a world-historical mission for the British Empire? And what were the constituencies behind the development of the imperialistic thinking in mid-Victorian England? These questions are vital for understanding where the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century came from. Empire as the Triumph of Theory takes... more...
Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia
RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 39.95Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia offers the reader an accessible journey through Southeast Asia from pre-colonial times to the present day with themes ranging from conquest and mangement to decolonization. more...
Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa 1880-1995
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 30.00A revised edition of Manning's 1988 Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1985. Covering the French-speaking countries of west and central Africa, it focuses on the development of new African institutions and a new African culture, based on precolonial African heritage and the connections of Africa with French and Belgian colonial powers. more...
Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 34.00This is a book about 'middlemen': Africans who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over 300 years. Based on written and oral sources, it follows the Duala, a critical community, from precolonial history to the end of colonialism, covering both German and French colonial role. more...
The Transition to a Colonial Economy
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 40.00Contrary to popular belief that poverty has been characteristic of India for centuries, the author demonstrates that, it was not until the rise of colonial rule that the decline in the economic fortunes of the labouring communities was initiated. The book represents a powerful revisionist statement on Britain in India. more...
A Different Shade of Colonialism
University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95This incisive study adds a new dimension to discussions of Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism as well as to discussions of colonialism and nationalism in general. Eve M. Troutt Powell challenges many accepted tenets of the binary relationship between European empires and non-European colonies by examining the triangle of... more...
Legacies of Colonial English
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 58.00As a result of colonisation, many varieties of English now exist around the world. Legacies of Colonial English explores the role of British dialects in both the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial Englishes, and how it came about that many still reflect non-standard British usage from the distant past. more...
Empire
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 9.99Much of the world's history is the history of empires. But what has replaced the old territorial empires in world politics? This title seeks answers to such questions as: Do the United States and its allies, transnational companies, financial and media institutions, or more broadly the forces of 'globalisation', constitute a new imperial system? more...
Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 30.95Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism is a classic critique of France's policies in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s and inspired much subsequent writing on colonialism, post-colonialism, politics, and literature. It includes Sartre's celebrated preface to Fanon's classic Wretched of the Earth. Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism had a profound impact... more...
The End of Empire in French West Africa
Bloomsbury Publishing 2002; US$ 109.95In an effort to restore its world-power status after the humiliation of defeat and occupation, France was eager to maintain its overseas empire at the end of the Second World War. Yet just fifteen years later France had decolonized, and by 1960 only a few small island territories remained under French control. The process of decolonization in Indochina... more...









