Colonization & Independence

BIC code: JPHJ
See also: General Politics

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  Levinas And The Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other
  John E. Drabinski - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
  This monograph initiates the conversation between Levinas and postcolonial theory through a zig-zag reading, asking both how postcolonial theory challenges so many Levinasian concepts and how a Levinasian ethics is crucial for the normative dimension of postcolonial thinking.
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  Arguing For Independence: Evidence, Risk And Tackling The Wicked Issues
  Stephen Maxwell - Paperback - Luath
  Following an introductory chapter exploring why political argument deals in probability and plausibility across interdependent areas of social activity, this book offers a case for independence under six main headings - the democratic case, the economic case, the social case, the international case, the cultural case and the environmental case.
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  Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History Of India's Liberation Struggle
  Maia Ramnath - Paperback - AK/Institute for Anarchist Studies
  'Decolonizing Anarchism' looks at the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. This approach reveals an alternate narrative of decolonisation, in which achieving a nation-state is not the objective.
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  Dancing With Strangers
  Inga Clendinnen - Paperback - Canongate
  Providing an account of the first British settlers to land in Australia, this text tells of their first encounters with the indigenous people of the continent and the subsequent effects of colonialism and imperialism.
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  Scottish Fiction And The British Empire
  Douglas S. Mack - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
  Douglas Mack argues that writers with roots in non-elite Scotland such as James Hogg and Lewis Grassic Gibbon from the past and Irvine Welsh and James Kelman from the present actively challenge the Imperial Grand Narrative. He shows that Scottish fiction was influential in subverting the assumptions that underpinned the Empire.
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  The Road To The Scottish Parliament
  Brian Taylor - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
  First published in 1999, this revised and updated guide to the establishment of Scotland's Parliament follows the road to devolution - with fresh detail of the obstacles which stood in the way. The author offers an analysis of the background to this monumental political change.
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  Scotland Decides: The Devolution Issue And The 1997 Referendum
  - Paperback - Frank Cass
  The authors trace the origins and history of the demand for home rule in Scotland, focusing particularly on developments following the failure of the first referendum on the issue in 1979