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Series: History and Society in the Islamic World
Exploring the concept of ‘colonial cultures,’ this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies. Challenging both the colonial vulgate, and the nationalist paradigm, Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco, examines the lesser known...
To Be Published May 27th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust education, the government helps to fund student visits to Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust Exhibition has attracted millions of visitors, and Britain...
To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
This book explores the phenomenon of Independence Days. These rituals had complex meanings both in the territories concerned and in Britain as the imperial metropole, where they were extensively reported in the press. The text is concerned with the political management, associated rhetoric and...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
This book reviews Cabral’s intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics. The key leader of the national liberation movements of former Portuguese African colonies is considered to be one of their foremost intellectuals...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions
These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present. They treat the relationship with democratization and the different ways in which collective...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Studies in African American History and Culture
The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came an increase in racial discrimination directed at...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
This edited collection examines the British ‘way’ in counter-insurgency. It brings together and consolidates new scholarship on the counter-insurgency associated with the end of empire, foregrounding a dark and violent history of British imperial rule, one that stretched back to the nineteenth...
To Be Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
The major objective of this collection of 28 essays is to analyze the trends, musical formats, and rhetorical devices used in popular music to illuminate the human condition. By comparing and contrasting musical offerings in a number of countries and in different contexts from the 19th century...
To Be Published June 25th 2013 by Routledge
The study of the history of Southeast Asia is still growing, evolving, deepening and changing as an academic field. Over the past few decades historians have added nuance to traditional topics such as Islam and nationalism, and created new ones, such as gender, globalization and the politics of...
To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
This book opens unique perspectives on the Cold War battle for the hearts and minds of the people of post-1945 Europe. Using the Cold War neutrals Austria and Finland as an example, the study shows how the ideological Cold War also shaped politics in countries that sought not to take sides in the...
To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge
