The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial lite

This is the first reference guide to the political, cultural and economic histories that form the subject-matter of postcolonial literatures written in English.

Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.

This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947.

The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of "Englishness" within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial cultu