ABSTRACT
The collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors, representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the international community, reacted to colonialism during the lifetime of the modern colonial empires or in their aftermath. The coverage is broad in terms of geographical scope and historical period, with articles on the major colonial empires in Asia and Africa and the imperial centres of Paris, London and Berlin, from the conquests of the late nineteenth century to the period of decolonisation. The selection also reflects recent academic trends by focusing on countries whose colonial past and experience of decolonisation have been studied and debated with particular intensity, such as Algeria, Kenya and India. The volume draws on previously published articles and book chapters by leading international scholars writing in, or translated into, English and includes a critical introduction which situates each essay in relation to recent debates in this dynamic and expanding field of study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|88 pages
Modes of Resistance
part II|76 pages
Modes of ‘Civilizing’
part III|210 pages
Modes of Imagining
part IV|114 pages
Modes of Solidarity
chapter 16|24 pages
‘Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Mau Mau’
part V|96 pages
Critical Modes
part VI|32 pages
Modes of Remembering