Colonialism Books

New and Published Books

1. Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations

   Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community

   By Vrushali Patil

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960. Shrewdly bringing together Sociology, Women’s...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Alexander von Humboldt's Translantic Personae

   Edited by Vera Kutzinski

   Who was Alexander von Humboldt? Was he really a lone genius? Was he another European apologist for colonialism in the Americas or the father of Latin American independence? Was he a roving Romanticist, or did his sensibilities belong to the Enlightenment? Naturalist, philosopher, historian, and...

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Post-Colonial State in the Era of Capitalist Globalization

   Historical, Political and Theoretical Approaches to State Formation

   By Tariq Amin-Khan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   State formation in post-colonial societies differed greatly from the formation of the Western capitalist state. The latter has been extensively studied, while a coherent grasp of the post-colonial state has remained elusive. Amin-Khan provides a critical historical and contemporary understanding of...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. Malay Fishermen

   By Raymond Firth

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   The social, political and economic impact of the decline of the old colonial powers in Africa, India and the Middle East are still key areas of scholarly research and debate. Based on careful social observation and empirical research, the titles in The Sociology of Development set of the...

   Published October 18th 2010 by Routledge
5. African Americans and the Haitian Revolution

   Selected Essays and Historical Documents

   Edited by Maurice Jackson, Jacqueline Bacon

   Bringing together scholarly essays and helpfully annotated primary documents, African Americans and the Haitian Revolution collects not only the best recent scholarship on the subject, but also showcases the primary texts written by African Americans about the Haitian Revolution. Rather than being...

   Published October 26th 2009 by Routledge
6. Museums in Postcolonial Europe

   Edited by Dominic Thomas

   The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums, and the role they play in displaying the acquired spoils and glorious symbols of geopolitical power in order to mobilize public support for expansionist ventures. This book examines the...

   Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge
7. Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity

   Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste

   By Debjani Ganguly

   One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an institution of ranked, hereditary and occupational groups. This book discusses the enigmatic persistence of caste in the lives of South Asians as they...

   Published April 20th 2009 by Routledge
8. The Philippines

   Mobilities, Identities, Globalization

   By James A. Tyner

   Series: Global Realities

   Nearly five million migrant workers from the Philippines are employed in over 190 countries and territories. They work as doctors and domestic helpers, engineers and entertainers, seamstresses and surveyors. It is through their collective labor that the Philippines has assumed a global presence....

   Published September 18th 2008 by Routledge
9. Colonialism and Genocide

   Edited by Dirk Moses, Dan Stone

   Previously published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice, this is the first book to link colonialism and genocide in a systematic way in the context of world history. It fills a significant gap in the current understanding on genocide and the Holocaust, which sees them overwhelmingly as...

   Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge
10. Race, Colonialism and the City

    By John Rex

    John Rex is well known as one of Britain's leading sociologists and for his special interest in the sociology of race relations and the sociology of the city. In the present book these two related areas are brought together. Professor Rex discusses imperialistic social systems, and examines the...

    Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge