The Colonial's Son
The Colonial's Son

Author: Peter Watt

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2022-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781760986575

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As the son of 'the Colonial', legendary Queen's Captain Ian Steele, Josiah Steele has big shoes to fill. Although his home in New South Wales is a world away, he dreams of one day travelling to England to study to be a commissioned officer in the Scottish Regiment. After cutting his teeth in business on the rough and ready goldfields of Far North Queensland's Palmer River, he finally realises his dream and travels to England, where he is accepted into the Sandhurst military academy. While in London he makes surprising new acquaintances - and runs into a few old ones he'd rather have left behind. From the Australian bush to the glittering palaces of London, from the arid lands of Afghanistan and the horrors of war to the newly established Germany dominated by Prussian ideas of militarism, Josiah Steele must now forge his own path.

Colonial Son
Colonial Son

Author: Clayton Didier

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published: 2020-06-11

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1948260417

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Colonial Son describes the failure of the historical system of British colonial rule, which has adversely affected the lives of so many souls around the world. The book is an indictment of a defunct global political system and philosophy of life that has shamefully enriched and pampered one section of mankind on the backs of unfortunates, and in the process causing enslavement. Colonialism’s curse on man’s greed and its uncaring attitude for one’s fellow man is not isolated, nor does it reflect brief behavior, as it has existed worldwide for centuries. This dismal political and historic failure has not been given the attention it deserves. The inept and wicked colonial administration policy of the British Empire has been waged against its black colonial subjects over centuries, inflicting vile rule and neglect. While it lasted, that policy never arrived at that part of the “long haul” of wicked domination, where opportunity was freely given for the rightful human development of a major portion of the human species. A sin, for which to date, there has been no solemn apology offered, no fitting reparation made.

Who's Who in the Zulu War, 1879: The Colonials and The Zulus
Who's Who in the Zulu War, 1879: The Colonials and The Zulus

Author: Adrian Greaves

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2007-10-06

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1781597316

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The Anglo Zulu War continues to attract phenomenal interest. What was meant to be a quick punitive expedition led by Lord Chelmsford turned into a watershed for British Colonial power. The ignominious defeat at Iswandhlwana was a terrible blow to British military pride but the heroic stand at Rourkes Drift, while a minor event by comparison, allowed the powers-that-be to salvage some honor.This authoritative book covers all the main players, be they military, political or civilian, with concise yet readable individual entries. In addition to the military commanders on both sides, we have the VC winners, those at Rourkes Drift and survivors of the massacre. Individuals such as The Crown Prince Imperial whose actions made an impact all have entries.

Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature
Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature

Author: Leslie Barnes

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0803266774

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Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting from the premise that neither cultural identity nor cultural production can be pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French literary canon by examining the work of three iconic French writers with personal connections to Vietnam: André Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linda Lê. In a thorough investigation of the authors’ linguistic, metaphysical, and textual experiences of colonialism, Barnes articulates a new way of reading French literature: not as an inward-looking, homogenous, monolingual tradition, but rather as a tradition of intersecting and interdependent peoples, cultures, and experiences. One of the few books to focus on Vietnam’s position within francophone literary scholarship, Barnes challenges traditional concepts of French cultural identity and offers a new perspective on canonicity and the division between “French” and “francophone” literature.

King’S Native Sons
King’S Native Sons

Author: Larry Kenneth Alexander

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1490785809

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Chattel slavery in colonial America was an attack upon dynastic rule. The shot heard around the world was not a musket shot fired in April 1775. Rather, it was the verdict of Englands Supreme Court that slavery is an odious scheme and not authorized under Englands rule of law in June 1772. Englands traditions and rule of law were immutableit was truly a nation of laws and not of men. Depriving native sons of liberty at birth was unconstitutional. Colonial chattel slave practices were criminal enterprises, and Queen Charlotte, the wife of Englands King George the Third, recognized it as a threat to her son the Prince of Waless ascension to the British throne due to her obvious and much talked-about African heritage. Englands Queen Charlotte was black under the black codes one-drop rule, and she knew that if black native sons could lose their birthrights, though the rule of law declares them to be Englishmen, that pretenders to the kings throne might challenge her sons birthright. The queen concerned herself with great interest in the habeas corpus case of a colony of Virginia-born black named James Somersett. The significance of the Somersett habeas corpus case was Englands emancipation of its slaves has escaped telling. Told with all the power and drama of a novel, Kings Native Sons: Lies, Lessons and Legacies is an extraordinary account of a pulse-pounding human drama framed by political intrigue and raw human emotions (Larry Kenneth Alexander, cultural theorist). Contact [email protected] for pricing of prints, private book signings, and speaking engagements.

Vestiges of Colonial Empire in France
Vestiges of Colonial Empire in France

Author: R. Aldrich

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-12-10

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0230005527

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This book offers the first comprehensive study of 'sites of memory' in France connected to the history of French imperialism and colonialism, and the ways that the French have remembered or forgotten their colonial past. Through a study of monuments, memorials, museum collections and other 'sites of memory' in France connected with France's overseas empire this book analyzes the way in which French authorities marked the Paris and provincial landscapes with these reminders of France's colonial 'mission' during the period of imperial expansion, and the fate of these sites in the post-colonial period and what that evolution reveals about French memory and amnesia of the colonial epoch.