Tag: Colonial

Free Download Carolyn Bassett, Marlea Clarke, "Post-colonial struggles for a democratic Southern Africa: Legacies of Liberation"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138913448 | EPUB | pages: 130 | 0.5 mb
National liberation, one of the grand narratives of the twentieth century, has left a weighty legacy of unfulfilled dreams. This bookexplores the ongoing struggle for legitimate, accountable political leaders in postcolonial Southern Africa, focusing on dilemmas arising when ex-liberation movements form the governments. While the spread of multi-party democracy to most countries in the region is to be celebrated, democratic practice often has been superficial – a limited, elitist politics that relies on the symbols of the liberation struggle to legitimate de facto one-party rule and authoritarian practices. Using country cases from Tanzania, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia, the collection explores three subthemes relevant to postcolonial governance in Southern Africa: how the struggle for liberation shapes the character of political transformation, the nature of rule in one-party dominant states headed by former liberation movements, and the processes of governance and resistance in post-liberation contexts.

Free Download Understanding Colonial Nigeria: British Rule and Its Impact
by Toyin Falola
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1009337181 | 702 Pages | PDF | 7.8 MB

Free Download Adele Perry, Carter Findley, Elisa Camiscioli, "Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History"
English | 2005 | pages: 460 | ISBN: 0822334550 | PDF | 2,0 mb
From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean "comfort women" forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies in Contact demonstrate how a focus on the body as a site of cultural encounter provides essential insights into world history. Together these essays reveal the "body as contact zone" as a powerful analytic rubric for interpreting the mechanisms and legacies of colonialism and illuminating how attention to gender alters understandings of world history. Rather than privileging the operations of the Foreign Office or gentlemanly capitalists, these historical studies render the home, the street, the school, the club, and the marketplace visible as sites of imperial ideologies.

Free Download Tim McNeese, "New Amsterdam (Colonial Settlements in America)"
English | 2007 | pages: 110 | ISBN: 0791093344 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Describes the Dutch colonization of what would become New York.

Free Download Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)
by Jeremy Land
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9004542698 | 255 Pages | True PDF | 13.3 MB

Free Download Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem
by Aimé Césaire, Kate Nash
English | 2025 | ISBN: 150955937X | 297 Pages | PDF | 2.58 MB

Free Download Tim McNeese, "Santa Fe (Colonial Settlements in America)"
English | 2007 | pages: 117 | ISBN: 0791093328 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Presents a history of the Spanish colony, from the early explorations of lost Spaniards and Coronado’s subsequent Rio Grande expedition to the colony’s founding in 1609 and its continued importance today.

Free Download Ricardo Roque, "Crossing Histories and Ethnographies: Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste "
English | ISBN: 178920271X | 2019 | 372 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The key question for many anthropologists and historians today is not whether to cross the boundary between their disciplines, but whether the idea of a disciplinary boundary should be sustained. Reinterpreting the dynamic interplay between archive and field, these essays propose a method for mutually productive crossings between historical and ethnographic research. It engages critically with the colonial pasts of indigenous societies and examines how fieldwork and archival studies together lead to fruitful insights into the making of different colonial historicities. Timor-Leste’s unusually long and in some ways unique colonial history is explored as a compelling case for these crossings.

Free Download Sarah De Mul, "Colonial Memory: Contemporary Women’s Travel Writing in Britain and The Netherlands"
English | ISBN: 9089642935 | 2011 | 180 pages | PDF | 632 KB
Exploring the intersections of memory, gender, and the postcolonial, Colonial Memory explores the phenomenon of colonial memory through the specific genre of women’s travel writing. Building on criticism of memory and travel writing, Sarah De Mul seeks to open Dutch literature to postcolonial themes and concepts and to insert the history of the Dutch colonies and its critical recollection into the traditionally Anglophone-dominated field of postcolonial studies.

Free Download Elizabeth Kolsky, "Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0521190789 | PDF | pages: 261 | 14.3 mb
Colonial justice in british india describes and examines the lesser-known history of white violence in colonial india by foregrounding crimes committed by a mostly forgotten cast of european characters – planters, paupers, soldiers and sailors – elizabet