Insurgent empire : anticolonial resistance and British dissent / Priyamvada Gopal.
By: Gopal, Priyamvada [author.]
.Publisher: London : Verso, 2019Description: xiii, 607 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784784126; 9781784784157; 9781784784140.Subject(s): Anti-imperialist movements -- Great Britain -- History | Dissenters -- Great Britain -- Colonies | Great Britain -- Colonies -- HistoryDDC classification: 361.23 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 361.23 GOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 017969 |
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| 360 WOR Health principles of Housing / | 361.10941 CON Contemporary social evils / | 361.10941 TOO The too difficult box : | 361.23 GOP Insurgent empire : | 361.23 PRO Protest and democracy / | 361.25 LAT The campaigning handbook / | 361.250941 AUS Austerity, community action, and the future of citizenship in Europe / |
Introduction : enemies of empire -- I. Crises and connections -- The spirit of the Sepoy host : the 1857 uprising in India and early British critics of empire -- A barbaric independence : rebel voice and transnational solidarity, Morant Bay, 1865 -- The accidental anticolonialist : Egypt's 'Urabi' rebellion and late Victorian critiques of imperialism -- Passages to internationalism : the 'new spirit' in India and Edwardian travellers --II. Agitations and alliances -- The interpreter of insurgencies : Shapurji Saklatvala and democratic voice in Britain and India -- The revolt of the oppressed world : British internationalism from Meerut to the League Against Imperialism -- Black voices matter : race, resistance and reverse pedagogy in the metropole -- Internationalizing African opinion : race, writing and resistance -- Smash our own imperialism : George Padmore, the new leader and 'colonial fascism' -- A terrible assertion of discontent : 'Mau Mau' and the imperial benevolence -- Epilogue : that wondrous horse of freedom.