Free Download The Colonial Counter-Revolution: From de Gaulle to Sarkozy by Sadri Khiari, Ames Hodges
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1635901464 | 140 pages | PDF | 0.98 Mb
How and when American-style slavery created the racial system, not just in the United States but internationally.

Free Download The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 edited by Mark R. Peattie, Ramon H. Myers
English | March 21, 1984 | ISBN: 0691053987, 0691102228 | True EPUB/PDF | 560 pages | 11.7/56.1 MB
These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese empire from its establishment in 1895 to its liquidation in 1945. They offer a variety of perspectives on subjects previously neglected by historians: the origin and evolution of the formal empire (which comprised Taiwan, Korea, Karafuto. the Kwantung Leased Territory, and the South Seas Mandated Islands), the institutions and policies by which it was governed, and the economic dynamics that impelled it. Seeking neither to justify the empire nor to condemn it, the contributors place it in the framework of Japanese history and in the context of colonialism as a global phenomenon.

Free Download The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others: A Global Perspective By Esther Lezra
2014 | 170 Pages | ISBN: 0415742269 | PDF | 3 MB
The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others examines European mistranslations and misrepresentations of black freedom dreams and self-activity as monstrous in the period of modern imperial consolidation -roughly from 1750 to 1848. This book argues that Europe's archives of self-understanding are haunted by the traces of Black radical resistance. Just as Europe's economy came to depend upon the raw materials, markets, and labor it secured from the colonies, European culture came to be based on fantasies and phobias derived from the unruly and unmanageable aftershocks of colonial violence and counter-insurgency. Rather than assert that European nationalist and abolitionist discourses are on the side of emancipatory movements, the book shows the limits of the promise of that discourse, and the continuation of those limitations that makes the continued pursuit of that promise a questionable activity. This book does not wish to salvage the emancipatory promises of European discourse, but considers the more difficult and uncomfortable question of why emancipatory movements represented the struggles of anticolonial and radical blackness the way they did.The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others privileges the political reading not only of literary texts but also of historical documents and visual culture.

Free Download The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective By Crawford Young
1997 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0300068794 | PDF | 20 MB
In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished specialist and scholar of African affairs argues that the current crisis in African development can be traced directly to European colonial rule, which left the continent with a "singularly difficult legacy" that is unique in modern history.Crawford Young proposes a new conception of the state, weighing the different characteristics of earlier European empires (including those of Holland, Portugal, England, and Venice) and distilling their common qualities. He then presents a concise and wide-ranging history of colonization in Africa, from the era of construction through consolidation and decolonization. Young argues that several qualities combined to make the European colonial experience in Africa distinctive. The high number of nations competing for power around the continent and the necessity to achieve effective occupation swiftly yet make the colonies self-financing drove colonial powers toward policies of "ruthless extractive action." The persistent, virulent racism that established a distance between rulers and subjects was especially central to African colonial history.Young concludes by turning his sights to other regions of the once-colonized world, comparing the fates of former African colonies to their counterparts elsewhere. In tracing both the overarching traits and variations in African colonial states, he makes a strong case that colonialism has played a critical role in shaping the fate of this troubled continent.

Free Download Colonial Algeria and the Politics of Citizenship by Avner Ofrath
2023 | ISBN: 1350260029 | English | 208 pages | EPUB | 0.5 MB
This book explores citizenship politics in colonial Algeria, which became a key battlefield for struggles over participation of the body politic and the reach of universal promise in 1789. In examining these struggles, Avner Ofrath shows how colonialism dissolved the political community as a frame of participation and negotiation, first in the colonies and ultimately in the metropole.

Free Download Andrekos Varnava, "Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA: Reading the Archives against the Grain "
English | ISBN: 1785275526 | 2021 | 142 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. This event has been the infamous subject of rumours since its occurrence and a taboo subject for Cypriot society and historians alike, as the event has been silenced or dismissed. This book explores the assassination in its broadest possible context by situating it within the broader events within the British Empire, the region and the world more generally at that time. The basis for the exploration is a 'community of records' through which all the evidence is sifted, reading it both with and against the grain, in order to provide the most likely answer to who was really behind this mysterious cold case. Through rigorous analysis, this book concludes that those who most likely masterminded the assassination supported radical right-wing extremist pro-enosis nationalism and were subsequently also prominent in forming the EOKA terrorist group in the 1950s.

Free Download The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire (Princeton Modern Knowledge) by George Steinmetz
English | April 4th, 2023 | ISBN: 0691237425 | 576 pages | True EPUB | 20.10 MB
A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empire

Free Download Anne Digby, "Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective"
English | ISBN: 1443821543 | 2010 | 280 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines. Engagement with different kinds of colonialism and varied indigenous socio-political cultures has led to a wide range of approaches and increasingly distinct traditions of historical writing about colonial and indigenous modes of healing have emerged in the various regions formerly ruled by different colonial powers. The volume offers a much-needed opportunity to explore new conceptual perspectives and encourages critical reflection on how scholars' research specialisms have influenced their approaches to the history of medicine and healing. The book includes contributions on different geographical regions in Asia, Africa and the Americas and within the varied contexts of Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch and British colonialisms. It deals with issues such as internal colonialism, the plural history of objects, transregional circulation and entanglement, and the historicisation of medical historiography. The chapters in the volume explore the scope for conceptual interaction between authors from diverse disciplines and different regions, highlighting the synergies and thematic commonalities as well as differences and divergences.

Free Download Sharon Stein, "Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education "
English | ISBN: 1421445042 | 2022 | 336 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Shifts the narrative around the history of US higher education to examine its colonial past.

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English | ISBN: 1474414222 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Deploying the term 'late-colonial' to describe a body of largely French films made during, and in response to, the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), this book revolves around one question - what is late-colonial French cinema? - generating two answers.