With unprecedented access to Mbeki and the ANC, A Legacy of Liberation weaves a nuanced portrait of the black experience under apartheid and sheds light on the future of the nation under a new regime. It is a gripping social history of South Africa's past and future, beautifully narrated by one of Africa's most esteemed journalists.
A collective biography of the veterans of the battle of El Santuario (1829), this book uses the untold stories of ordinary lives to examine the history of the imperial conflicts that shaped politics and society in Colombia and Venezuela after independence from colonial rule.
At the beginning of the 20th Century Jordan was a loose collection of tribes. By the time of its independence in 1946 it had the most firmly embedded state structures in the Arab world. This title examines how the disparate clan networks of Jordan were integrated into the Hashemite monarcy, with the help of the British colonial administrators.
In the years leading up to Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, its small and transient white population was balanced precariously atop a large and fast-growing African population. This title provides a reexamination of the final decades of white minority rule.
The Round Table journal celebrates its centenary in 2010. The journal carried a number of articles recognised as highly influential in the making of British and Commonwealth policy, including constitutional reform in India, and the independence of southern Ireland. This book presents key articles published over one hundred years.
At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. This is an account of the chaotic final years of colonial rule in India. It brings to life a cast of characters including spies, idealists, freedom fighters and politicians from Churchill to Gandhi.
This book aims to fill some of the gaps in historical narrative about labor unions, Nigerian leftists, and decolonization during the twentieth century. It emphasizes the significance of labor union education in British decolonization, labor unionism, and British efforts at modernizing the human resources of Nigeria.
The first single-volume comparative history of postcolonial South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa in the first generation since independence. Drawing together detailed economic and political analysis, Waites assesses the colonial impact on these regions, establishing breaks and continuities, and highlighting their diversity and interplay.
Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently and just in time to avert a revolution? This title views the topic against the backdrop of a long history of conflict spanning apartheid's rise and demise, and the liberation movement's suppression and subsequent resurrection.
The first single-volume comparative history of postcolonial South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa in the first generation since independence. Drawing together detailed economic and political analysis, Waites assesses the colonial impact on these regions, establishing breaks and continuities, and highlighting their diversity and interplay.
Explores the intersection of postcolonial theory and medievalism. This title discusses medievalism in regions as wide-ranging as the United States, India, Latin America, and Africa. It demonstrates that writing the Middle Ages has been key in colonial and postcolonial struggles over racial, ethnic, and territorial identity.
In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the only successful slave uprising in world history. Before Haiti explains the origins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members both supported and challenged slavery, and examines how they created their own New World identity from 1760 to 1804.