This collection of essays offers alternative readings of historical and literary texts produced during Latin America's colonial period. By considering the polit

Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.

This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention

"Probably the most important historian of Africa currently writing in the English language. His intellectual reach and ambition have even taken influence far be

This book examines the evolving representations of the colonial past from the mid-19th century up to decolonization in the 1960s and 70s ? the so-called era of