1918 and the End of Europe’s Land Empires
Robert Gerwarth
This, the first of two complementary chapters on the First World War and its colonial aftermaths, focuses on the collapse of ‘compact’ empires in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern ...
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Anthropology, Colonialism, and Eugenics
Philippa Levine
This article traces what catalyzed the ideas of eugenic policies, what gave them weight in an increasingly precise scientific environment. It draws an explicit link between this interest ...
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Anti-Colonial Nationalism and Patriotism in Sub-Saharan Africa
John M. Lonsdale
Following on from the argument of the joint introduction to African nationalism, this chapter emphasizes Africa’s place in a global history of nationalism by emphasizing what seems to be a ...
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Anti-Colonialism
Christopher J. Lee
Anti-colonialism as a historical phenomenon defies easy categorization. Despite its use as an expression across a range of academic disciplines, it resists simple definitions of practical ...
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Anti-Western Doctrines of Nationalism
Andreas Eckert
This chapter builds upon the insight that around 1900 different concepts and institutions such as ‘nationalism’ and ‘nation’ began to spread globally. Outside the West, nationalism soon ...
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Apologies, Restitutions and Compensation: Making Reparations for Colonialism
Robert Aldrich
Coming to terms with an imperial past has involved difficult and often divisive questions of how far the inhabitants of former imperial powers should accept responsibility for the deeds of ...
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Beyond Dependency: North-South Relationships in the Age of Development
Joseph Morgan Hodge
This chapter examines the degree of continuity and rupture between the colonial/post-colonial divide in Africa, and argues that the years between 1930 and the 1970s constitute a single, ...
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British West Indies and Bermuda
Trevor Burnard
This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in the British West Indies and Bermuda. The British West Indies differed from other places colonized by the ...
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The Caribbean
Spencer Mawby
In terms of demography, ecology, culture, and politics, the modern Caribbean is rooted in a hybrid/creole past. This is significant because many theorists have identified the local as the ...
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The Cold War and the Imperialism of Nation-States
Prasenjit Duara
This chapter examines the role of the imperialism of nation-states in the Cold War. It suggests that the Cold War rivalry provided the “frame of reference” in which the historical forces ...
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