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Red october
Using extensive field data from hundreds of interviews, Webber surveys the origins of Bolivia's revolutionary wave of 2000 to 2005.
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Rehearsals for living
Articulating abolitionist and anti-colonial presents and futures, Rehearsals for Living asks what it means to get free.
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Rival civilisations
How British intellectuals of the twentieth century reckoned with the emergence of an Asian powerMost historians of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe point to the persistence of racialised and hierarchical views of non-Europeans as “uncivilised.” Yet these accounts overlook the profound inte...
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Sacred language, vernacular difference
How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and SenegalSacred Language, Vernacular Difference offers a new understanding of Arabic’s global position as the basis for comparing cultural and literary histories in countries separated by...
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Segregation, inequality, and urban development
In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public that uses the space. This book studies the ways in which segregated city spaces, displacement of people from their homes, and criminalization practices a...
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Settler, 2nd edition
Canada has never had an “Indian problem”— but it does have a Settler problem. What does it mean to be Settler, and why does it matter?
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Settlers
Settlers is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself ...
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Settling for less
Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers. But why did states like Australia and the United States stop settling frontier lands during the twentieth century? At the same time, why did states...
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Sexagon
Sexagon examines how Muslim immigrants from North Africa—as well as their French descendants—have had their level of assimilation to French Culture evaluated according to their attitudes about gender and sexuality. Mack contends that French Arab and Muslim minorities have had their French-ness re...
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Slave in a palanquin
Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the wake of abolition. Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the ...
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Speculation nation
During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a “mania.” In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary origins o...
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State-building and national militaries in postcolonial west africa
Explores the fundamental role of the military in state-building in francophone postcolonial West Africa and how foreign economic and military aid has influenced it.How did African armed forces in postcolonial states in francophone West Africa influence decolonization and state-building in African...
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Stateless citizenship
In this provocative and compelling work Shourideh Molavi documents the legal plight of Palestinians living inside of Israel.
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States and power in africa
Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African st...
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States of emergency
States of Emergency navigates the temporal and spatial dimensions of France’s states of emergency across three colonial space-times
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Stating the sacred
Stating the Sacred offers a novel approach to nation-state formation, arguing that its most critical element is how the state sacralizes the nation. Focusing primarily on China, Michael J. Walsh argues that the foundational role of the sacred makes all nation-states religious states.
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Struggle for the land
Landmark work illustrates the history of North American indigenous resistance and the struggle for land rights.
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Sub-saharan african immigrants’ stories of resilience and courage
This book seeks to produce a more specific description of Sub-Saharan African immigration in the US by recording our reflections, experiences, and strategies of coping, as well as those of the participants.
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Subaltern silence
Subordination did not simply fade away in the aftermath of colonialism. Instead, this illuminating book shows, a host of subtle new techniques have arisen that dominate vast categories of people by rendering them silent.
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Subaltern social groups
This volume presents the first complete translation of Antonio Gramsci’s notes on the concept of subalternity, including the prison notebook devoted to the theme of subaltern social groups. It includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources and contextualizes ...
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Subterranean fanon
The problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. Gavin Arnall traces an internal division throughout Fanon’s work, contending that there are two Fanons: a dominant Fanon who conceives of change as a dialectical process of becoming and a subterranean Fanon who experiments with an even ...
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Taiwan
As a top 20 global economy and tech powerhouse, a liberal democracy on the frontline of autocratic pressure and a pivotal component in the free and open Indo-Pacific, the future security of Taiwan has enormous ramifications for today’s global order. Sullivan and Nachman consider what's at stake.
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Taking sides
Is there an option to oppose without automatically participating in the opposed? This volume explores different perspectives on dissent, understanding practices, cultures, and theories of resistance, dispute, and opposition as inherently participative.
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Taking stakes in the unknown
In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre-9/11 and pre-Obama world. Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post...
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Temporality and aesthetic regimes in the ›black atlantic‹ 1
Part of a two-volume exploration of philosophical notions and aesthetic forms of temporality in the Black Atlantic, this first one focuses on how Black artists discussed and transcended modern ideas of time.
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Temporality and aesthetic regimes in the ›black atlantic‹ 2
Part of a two-volume exploration of philosophical notions and aesthetic forms of temporality in the Black Atlantic, this second one focuses on how blackness and temporality have impacted the arts and culture in the US.
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Ten lessons in modern chinese history
A timely and solid portrait of modern China
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Territories in resistance
A thoughtful examination of social relations in Latin America, from one of the region's foremost political analysts.
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The african revolution
A panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialismAfrica’s long nineteenth century was a time of revolutionary ferment and cultural innovation for the continent’s states, societies, and economies. Yet the period preceding what became known as “the Scramble for Africa” by European powe...
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The age of garvey
A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyondJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attract...
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The architecture of modern empire
Whether discussing her childhood or the problems of translation in a multilingual society, Roy and Barsamian, the producer and host of Alternative Radio, engage in a lively and accessible manner.
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The canadian state
A critical analysis of the Canadian state as an active agent in shaping and navigating political-economic change.
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The changing face of empire
The Changing Face of Empire is a devastating anatomy of the U.S. military’s new six-point program for twenty-first-century war.
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The colonial origins of modern social thought
A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empireIn this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French sociology in the context of the French empire af...
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The colonization of names
This groundbreaking history of personal names in nineteenth-century Algeria sheds new light on the symbolic violence of renaming and the relationship between language and colonialism.
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The company and the shogun
Focuses on the Dutch East India Company’s clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty.
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The decline of marriage in namibia
Over the past decades, marriage rates in southern Africa have declined significantly. Using the appropriation of marriage by a rural Namibian elite as a case study, Julia Pauli tells the entwined stories of class formation and marriage decline in post-apartheid Namibia.
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The dimensions of hegemony
In this highly original and engaging text, Craig Brandist unearths the Russian roots of Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony.
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The empire remains shop
The Empire Remains Shop speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today. Based on a public installation, the book catalogues and develops the installation's critical program, using food to trace new geographies across the present an...
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The end of empires and a world remade
A capacious history of decolonization from the decline of empires to the era of globalizationEmpires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. D...
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The end of progress
Amy Allen fractures critical theory from within by dispensing with its progressive reading of history while retaining its notion of progress as a political imperative. In reimagining a decolonized critical theory after the end of progress, she rescues it from oblivion and gives it a future for ac...
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The five hundred year rebellion
How history—spoken, written, visual, broadcast, and shared—has supported five centuries of indigenous Bolivian resistance.
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The forging of the american empire
This classic book is the first truly comprehensive history of American imperialism.
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The future that was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our presentBeginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women. Galvanized by In...
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The global social sciences
The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism of their approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; thus criticism of European social sciences by subaltern social sciences, their 'talking back,' has become a frequent line of reflection. The relabeling of the critique o...
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The impact of tourism in east africa
This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. T...
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The king's slaves
A provocative account of how empire and absolutism institutionalized slavery in AmericaThe original draft of the Declaration of Independence condemned British kings for supporting slavery in their empire. England’s two seventeenth-century revolutions were in part a reaction to the crown’s proslav...
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