In this paper I will introduce two of the most stimulating and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century: the political theorist and refugee from Nazi Germany, Hannah Arendt, and the psychiatrist and anticolonial militant, Frantz Fanon.
Best Books on Colonial Wrongdoing - Shepherd
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New Book: Blood and Bronze: the British Empire & the Sack of Benin is coming soon..!
I am delighted to say that my new book will be published by Hurst Publishers in November…
Empire Film: ‘The Mission’ and the colonisation of history
Erasure of the Guaraní makes for a surprising degree of racism in an avowedly progressive film.
‘Black Men and White Girls’: the Limehouse Riot Trial of 1919
On July 1st 1919, The Times reported on a trial at the Old Bailey that illustrates the racist violence afflicting the country in that febrile year.
Empire Film: fleeing the North West Frontier on a steam-powered metaphor
An old-fashioned Empire yarn released into a decolonising world which reveals much about imperial symbolism and the geopolitical anxieties of 1959.
(Mis)carriage of justice: the strange case of Lieutenant de la Roncière & Marie de Morell
A curious case of miscarriage of justice which obscured a much stranger story.
The Amritsar Massacre of 1919: performative violence and colonial rule
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 13th 1919 and how it fits the regular pattern of colonial violence.
Despatches from the Archives: A minor dispute & its imperial meanings – Tahiti, 1865
A trivial but fraught diplomatic dispute in the Pacific Ocean reveals something of great power rivalries.
Empire Film: 'Ice Cold in Alex' and the end of British supremacy
A war film that reveals much about British anxieties over a transforming world as the imperial age approached its demise and British supremacy was at an end.
Despatches from the Archives: Sir Claude MacDonald in West Africa
Sir Claude MacDonald’s despatches to the Foreign Office while in charge of the Niger Coast Protectorate, and what they tell us about British imperial rule.