ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how British-published textbooks treated the concept of “colonialism” in African, Asian, and Caribbean societies from the post-World War II period and beyond. It considers how groups generate and disseminate knowledge to legitimate the cultural domination of one group over the other; and the emergence of expatriate authors and publishing houses in Britain as challengers to past treatment of colonialism. Publishers from the dominant culture, such as W. Heinemann and Longman, have become models of cooperation with expatriate publishing houses. British college libraries have compiled an impressive collection of school textbooks published both in Britain and throughout its Commonwealth countries. The emergence of the expatriate houses in Britain has brought a new and added dimension to the body of knowledge on the processes and effects of colonialism. Among the international publishing houses was a small group of establishments owned and operated by Caribbean, African, and Asian expatriates.
