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The Last Colonial Massacre
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Author : Greg Grandin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-07-30
The Last Colonial Massacre written by Greg Grandin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-30 with History categories.
After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and prompting both revolutionary violence and a right-wing backlash. Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Greg Grandin powerfully challenges these views in this classic work. In doing so, he uncovers the hidden history of the Latin American Cold War: of hidebound reactionaries holding on to their power and privilege; of Mayan Marxists blending indigenous notions of justice with universal ideas of equality; and of a United States supporting new styles of state terror throughout the region. With Guatemala as his case study, Grandin argues that the Latin American Cold War was a struggle not between political liberalism and Soviet communism but two visions of democracy—one vibrant and egalitarian, the other tepid and unequal—and that the conflict’s main effect was to eliminate homegrown notions of social democracy. Updated with a new preface by the author and an interview with Naomi Klein, The Last Colonial Massacre is history of the highest order—a work that will dramatically recast our understanding of Latin American politics and the role of the United States in the Cold War and beyond. “This work admirably explains the process in which hopes of democracy were brutally repressed in Guatemala and its people experienced a civil war lasting for half a century.”—International History Review “A richly detailed, humane, and passionately subversive portrait of inspiring reformers tragically redefined by the Cold War as enemies of the state.”—Journal of American History
The Last Colonies
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Author : Robert Aldrich
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-07-13
The Last Colonies written by Robert Aldrich and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This comprehensive and authoritative book is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers. It discusses the surprisingly large number of these territories, mainly small isolated islands with limited resources. Yet these places are not as obscure as might be expected. They may be major tourist destinations, military bases, satellite tracking stations, tax havens or desolate, underpopulated spots that can become international flashpoints, such as the Falklands. The authors find that at a time of escalating nationalism and globalization, these remnants of empire provide insights into the meanings of political, economic, legal and cultural independence, as well as sovereignty and nationhood. This book provides a broad-based and provocative discussion of colonialism and interdependence in the modern world, from a unique perspective.
Africa S Last Colonial Currency
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Author : Fanny Pigeaud
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2021
Africa S Last Colonial Currency written by Fanny Pigeaud and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Africa categories.
How the CFA Franc enabled France to continue its colonies in Africa.
The Last Colony
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Author : Philippe Sands
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2023-09-26
The Last Colony written by Philippe Sands and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-26 with History categories.
The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victory In 1973, on the Chagos Islands off the coast of Africa, Liseby Elyse—twenty years old, newly married and four months pregnant—was, rounded up, along with the entire population of Chagos, and ordered to pack her belongings and leave her beloved homeland by ship or slowly starve; the British had cut off all food supplies. Some two thousand people who had lived on the islands of Chagos for generations, many the direct descendants of enslaved people brought there from Mozambique and Madagascar in the 18th century by the French and British, were deported overnight from their island paradise as the result of a secret decision by the British government to provide the United States with land to construct a military base in the Indian Ocean. For four decades the government of Mauritius fought for the return of Chagos. Three decades into the battle, Philippe Sands became the lead lawyer in the case, designing its legal strategy and assembling a team of lawyers from Mauritius, Belgium, India, Ukraine, and the U.S. When the case finally reached the World Court in the Hague, Sands chose as the star witness the diminutive Liseby Elyse, now sixty-five years old, and instructed her to appear before the court, speaking in Kreol, to tell the fourteen international judges her story of forced exile. The fate of Chagos rested on her testimony. The judges faced a landmark decision: Would they rule that Britain illegally detached Chagos from Mauritius? Would Liseby Elyse sway the judges and open the door, allowing her and her fellow Chagossians to return home—or would they remain exiled forever? Philippe Sands writes of his own journey into international law and that of the World Court in the Hague, and of the extraordinary decades-long quest of Liseby Elyse, and the people of Chagos, in their fight for justice and a free and fair return to the idyllic land of their birth.
The Last Colonial
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Author : Gerard Deudekom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Last Colonial written by Gerard Deudekom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Autobiographical memory categories.
"This story is based on actual facts. It all started in Europe in 1929, the year of the Great Depression when the world was battling a severe economic fallout, followed by the destructive years of World War Two. It tells of desperate efforts to escape post-war Holland and the desire to explore countries and continents unknown. From life experiences in Germany and England, the story moves to Malaya where the tide of nationalism was sweeping the country. The British Colonial Masters had to face years of desperate guerrilla warfare of the Malayan Peoples' Liberation Army to secure independence. It gives an account of colonial life in Malaya and Singapore in the fifties and a unique and authentic picture of life in primitive Borneo, the land of the once notorious head-hunters. The story ponders the difficult decision that faced so many ex-colonials as to where to make a new home. It traces explorative journeys to Canada and South Africa before finally settling in Australia." --Back cover.
The Last Colony
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Author : John Scalzi
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-11-23
The Last Colony written by John Scalzi and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-23 with Fiction categories.
Hard-core military science fiction at its very best, John Scalzi's The Last Colony is the third in The Old Man's War series. 'Gripping and surpassingly original' – Cory Doctorow, author of Walkaway They must save themselves – or die trying. John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanity's colonies – until he and his wife were offered an opportunity these ex-supersoldiers couldn't resist. To come out of retirement and lead a new frontier world. However, once on the planet, they discover they've been betrayed. For this colony is a pawn in an interstellar game of war and diplomacy. Humanity's Colonial Union has pitched itself against a new, seemingly unstoppable alien alliance, dedicated to ending all human colonization. As this contest rages above, Perry struggles to keep his terrified colonists alive on the surface below – despite dangerous interstellar politics, violence and treachery. And the planet has yet to reveal its own fatal secrets. Continue the gripping space war series with Zoe's Tale.
The Last Colonial
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Author : Christopher Ondaatje
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2011-10-25
The Last Colonial written by Christopher Ondaatje and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An autobiography in essays by this renowned explorer and biographer of the British colonial period. Christopher Ondaatje is a true child of the British Empire. Born in Ceylon in 1933 and brought up on a tea plantation, he was sent as a teenager to boarding school in England. But soon after Ceylon was granted its independence in 1948, his family found themselves destitute, and the young Ondaatje left school and got a job. In 1956 he made his way to Canada with just thirteen dollars in his pocket. From this improbable beginning there followed a series of commercial triumphs until 1988 when he abruptly abandoned high finance at the peak of his career and reinvented himself as an explorer and author, focusing mainly on the colonial period. It is the curious encounters behind these often precarious adventures that make up The Last Colonial. The stories tell of Ondaatje’s childhood days in Ceylon, his early life in Canada, his fascination with inexplicable events and local superstitions, and his sometimes perilous travels researching biographies of Ernest Hemingway in Africa, Leonard Woolf in Ceylon, and Sir Richard Burton in India and Africa. Complemented by the artist Ana Maria Pacheco’s magical, sometimes disturbing illustrations, the stories conjure up a truly unique portrait of a world that is vanishing forever.
The Last Colonial
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Author : Carolyn Faunce Copeland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-01-01
The Last Colonial written by Carolyn Faunce Copeland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Fiction categories.
The Last Colonial Judge
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Author : Jennie Evans
language : en
Publisher: Matador
Release Date : 2018-02
The Last Colonial Judge written by Jennie Evans and has been published by Matador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02 with categories.
Cuthbert Whitton was the last of the Malayan Civil Service officers to sit as aHigh Court Judge in Singapore. After a brief prologue introducing Cuthbert's Irish family background, this memoir opens with Cuthbert's arrival inPenang in 1929 as an Eastern cadet with the Malayan Civil Service. He describes colonial life and his duties, includingtaking 'dying depositions' although most dying actually recovered. Cuthbert describes the development of politicalconsciousness, dealing with the resulting issues, and states his own views as he progressed to increasingly senior posts. In1939, after a year reading in Chambers in London, he was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn. He returned to Singapore withthe shadow of war looming, and subsequently would be swept up in the drama of the outbreak of war with Japan. Cuthbert's account of the Fall of Singapore is an extremely personal one; increasing apprehension over militaryaggression in South East Asia, the departure of his wife and infant son, the terror of bombing as the Japaneseadvanced, finally the rounding up of civilians on the Padang followed by the journey by foot to Katong Convent, thenChangi Jail. Apart from commenting on the administration of justice as practised by the Japanese, Cuthbert chosenot to dwell upon internment. After the war, and having recuperated in Ireland, Cuthbert returned to Malaya. He recalls court cases, events such asthe 1948 Emergency when the Communists launched their terrorist campaign, and he comments on the changing times.In 1951 he was appointed Puisne Judge, Federation of Malaya, and 1953 Puisne Judge, Supreme Court, Singapore.
The Final Years Of British Hong Kong
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Author : J. Flowerdew
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1998-02-12
The Final Years Of British Hong Kong written by J. Flowerdew and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02-12 with Political Science categories.
This book critically reviews the British experience in Hong Kong with special emphasis on the tenure of the last governor, Chris Patten, and the discourse he used in guiding the transfer of sovereignty to China. While the People's Republic of China proclaimed the recovery of Hong Kong to be just retribution for a century and a half of national shame under British rule, Patten, as the spokesperson for the British, was concerned that Britain's exit from its last significant colony should be an honourable one.