Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies: Insurgent Peoples in World History

Domingos, Nuno; Jerónimo, Miguel Bandeira; Roque, Ricardo

This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and celebratory readings of ‘insurgent peoples’, and it seeks to revitalize the study of ‘resistance’ as an analytical field in the comparative history of Western colonialisms. It explores how to read and (de)code these issues in archival documents – and how to conjugate documental approaches with oral history, indigenous memories, and international histories of empire. The topics explored include runaway slaves and slave rebellions, mutiny and banditry, memories and practices of guerrilla and liberation, diplomatic negotiations and cross-border confrontations, theft, collaboration, and even the subversive effects of nature in colonial projects of labor exploitation.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2019-08-24

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030191665

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19167-2

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 347