Traditional perspectives on decolonization, particularly how European states like France and Britain viewed and analyzed through during the history is vulnerable to find out the Ottomans' sample's elements of decolonization from the past. This paper encourages moving beyond Eurocentric...

Can name analysis be used to study elite persistence in African contexts? Taking Sierra Leone as a case study, we use surnames to measure how two historical elites (descendants of settlers that comprise Sierra Leone's Krio community and members of Chiefly Ruling Houses) have fared over the...

After centuries of colonial subordination, Black and Brown ex-colonies are still fighting to achieve the fruits of decolonization. The traditional theory is that former colonies will emerge from the colonial period with the legal mandate and international recognition needed to chart their own...

Can name analysis be used to study elite persistence in African contexts? Taking Sierra Leone as a case study, we use surnames to measure how two historical elites (descendants of settlers that comprise Sierra Leone's Krio community and members of Chiefly Ruling Houses) have fared over the...

Postkoloniales Counter-Mapping ist eine Methode, die sich seit einigen Jahren zunehmender Beliebtheit erfreut. Im Allgemeinen dient sie dazu, koloniale Spuren und Machtstrukturen in urbanen Räumen sichtbar zu machen und somit zur Dekolonisierung beizutragen. Bei dieser Form des Kartierens...

This essay, part of a forum on Claire Priest’s Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America, points toward a different framing for the history of property and credit in early America, one compatible with many of Priest’s finding but that trades off the theoretical elegance...

Conventional wisdom proposes deep historical roots for authoritarianism in Africa: either colonial “decentralized despotism” or enduring structural features. We present a new theoretical perspective. Africans sought autonomous local communities, which constrained precolonial rulers....

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What happens after colonial industries have run their course-after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the...

"The Petro-State Masquerade studies the fraught relationship between fossil fuels and political power in Trinidad and Tobago. Examining the past, present, and future of the country's oil and gas industries, anthropologist Ryan Jobson traces the processes by which early economic growth turned...

Decolonizing development : from Dadabhai Naoroji to Raúl Prebisch -- Development and social identities : race and caste in Mariátegui and Ambedkar -- Memories of underdevelopment : Miguel Angel Asturias's chronicles on India.

Foreword / Malcolm Murfett -- Leadership in apartheid South Africa : the impact of Dr. Henrik Verwoerd and B.J. Vorster / J.E. Spence -- Lee Kuan Yew : from political insurgent to national manager / Michael D. Barr -- Fidel Castro : the eternal leader of a revolution or the leader of an eternal...

Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe, profiting in colonial Africa, Asia and the...

"Depuis longtemps, l'afro-pessimisme et la fatalité continentale africaine ont marqué le débat politique et économique. Ce débat s'est souvent fait en minimisant les contraintes historiques, structurelles, imposées au continent par le capitalisme rentier international depuis l'esclavagisme...

Resolving the African Leadership Challenge: Insight From History examines leadership in pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial modern Africa, exploring the origin of Africa's leadership challenge, and providing lessons to enhance leadership effectiveness. New ground is broken here as the author...

"For more than a century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the...