Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969
Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969

Author: Margery Perham

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-03

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1000856046

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Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969 (1970) continues the sequence begun in Colonial Sequence 1930 to 1949 and presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain’s colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire. In these collected articles we see Britain’s colonial service in action, snapshots from the time and place, revealing colonialism with all its limitations and mistakes, achievements and ideals.

Trapped in History
Trapped in History

Author: Nicholas Rankin

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2023-11-14

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 0571307779

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Trapped in History tells how the British colonised Kenya and how African nationalism arose under Jomo Kenyatta. It describes the terrifying first attacks by the guerrilla freedom fighters known as Mau Mau. Though defeated, the Mau Mau hastened the end of British rule in Kenya. Trapped in History explores the effect the uprising on the author, who grew up as a child in the Kenya colony. The book is both a history, as well as a memoir, of the end of Empire.

Nigeria’s University Age
Nigeria’s University Age

Author: Tim Livsey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-13

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1137565055

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This book explores the world of Nigerian universities to offer an innovative perspective on the history of development and decolonisation from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using political, cultural and spatial approaches, the book shows that Nigerians and foreign donors alike saw the nation’s new universities as vital institutions: a means to educate future national leaders, drive economic growth, and make a modern Nigeria. Universities were vibrant places, centres of nightlife, dance, and the construction of spectacular buildings, as well as teaching and research. At universities, students, scholars, visionaries, and rebels considered and contested colonialism, the global Cold War, and the future of Nigeria. University life was shaped by, and formative to, experiences of development and decolonisation. The book will be of interest to historians of Africa, empire, education, architecture, and the Cold War.

A Historical Dictionary of British Women
A Historical Dictionary of British Women

Author: Cathy Hartley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 1031

ISBN-13: 1135355347

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This reference book, containing the biographies of more than 1,100 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, is an absorbing record of female achievement spanning some 2,000 years of British life. Most of the lives included are those of women whose work took them in some way before the public and who therefore played a direct and important role in broadening the horizons of women. Also included are women who influenced events in a more indirect way: the wives of kings and politicians, mistresses, ladies in waiting and society hostesses. Originally published as The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, this newly re-worked edition includes key figures who have died in the last 20 years, such as The Queen Mother, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, Elizabeth Jennings and Christina Foyle.

State Failure, Sovereignty And Effectiveness
State Failure, Sovereignty And Effectiveness

Author: Gérard Kreijen

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 9004139656

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This comprehensive study of State failure upholds that the collapse of States in sub-Saharan Africa is a self-inflicted problem caused by the abandonment of the principle of effectiveness during decolonization. On the one hand, the abandonment of effectiveness may have facilitated the recognition of the new African States, but on the other it did lead to the creation of States that were essentially powerless: some of which became utter failures. Written in a style both provocative and unorthodox and using convincing arguments, this study casts doubt on some of the most sacred principles of the modern doctrine of international law. It establishes that the declaratory theory of recognition cannot satisfactorily explain the continuing existence of failed States. It also demonstrates that the principled assertion of the right to self-determination as the basis for independence in Africa has turned the notion of sovereignty into a formal-legal figment without substance. This book is a plea for more realism in international law. Pensive pessimists in the tradition of Hobbes will probably love it. Idealists in the tradition of Grotius may hate it, but they will find it very difficult to reject its conclusions.

Modern England 1901-1970
Modern England 1901-1970

Author: Alfred Havighurst

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1976-05-13

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780521209410

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This is a comprehensive bibliography of all printed books, articles and standard texts on England, Ireland, Scotland, the Commonwealth and the colonies up to 1970. This handbook will serve as a useful guide to scholars, teachers at all levels, advanced students, and the general reader interested in examining the period in some depth.

Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings
Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings

Author: Harald Fischer-Tiné

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-23

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 3319451367

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This book argues that the history of colonial empires has been shaped to a considerable extent by negative emotions such as anxiety, fear and embarrassment as well as by the regular occurrence of panics. The case studies it assembles examine the various ways in which panics and anxieties were generated in imperial situations and how they shook up the dynamics between seemingly all-powerful colonizers and the apparently defenceless colonized. Drawing from examples of the British, Dutch and German colonial experience, the volume sketches out some of the main areas (such as disease, native ‘savagery’ or sexual transgression) that generated panics or created anxieties in colonial settings and analyses the most common varieties of practical, discursive and epistemic strategies adopted by the colonisers to curb the perceived threats.

Imagined States
Imagined States

Author: Katherine Isobel Baxter

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-11-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1474420842

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Imagined States examines representations of the law in British and Nigerian high-brow, middle-brow and popular fiction and journalism. It reads works by Chinua Achebe, Joyce Cary, Cyprian Ekwensi and Edgar Wallace, together with a range of Nigerian market literature and journalism.