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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results33 Connexions Library1 Sources Experts & Spokespersons 4 Sources Library 1 From the Connexions Archives Connexions LibraryAge of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991  Hobsbawm, Eric Book 1994 A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991. "All changed, changed utterly": The historical significance of the Irish Revolution Doherty, Shaun Article 2016 The problem with political anniversaries is that they often focus on specific dates in the past without any recognition that they are part of a longer process. Easter Monday 1916 is an iconic date in ... Beyond a Boundary James, C.L.R. Book 1963 Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founders of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of the game of cricket, this book raises serious questions about race, class, po... Das Capital, Volume 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Marx, Karl Book 1867 Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, ... A century of sugar and tears: Guadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge Denis, Jacques Article 2015 Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on... 'Civilising' the 'Blacks'; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions James, C.L.R. Article 1936 Africans must win their own freedom. Nobody will win it for them. They need co-operation, but that co-operation must be with the revolutionary movement in Europe and Asia. There is no other way out. E... Empire of Capital Wood, Ellen Meiksins Book 2003 Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in... The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners Marx, Karl Article 1870 On the treatment of Fenian prisoners. The First Indian War of Independence (1857-1858) and the East India Company (June-August 1853) Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich Website 1857 Articles by Marx and Engels on India 1853-1859. Imperial silences: From Rhodes to Surabaya Newsinger, John Article 2016 The campaign last year to have the statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from Oriel College, Oxford, has provoked more discussion of the British Empire and its crimes than we have seen for many years. Rather... Ireland and the Irish Question Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich Book 1971 Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 12: Marx and Engels 1853 - 1854 Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich Book Articles mainly on British colonialism.
Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies Anderson, Kevin B. Book 2010 Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expen... A Marxist History of the World part 43: Colonies, slavery, and racism Faulkner, Neil Article 2011 Capitalist contradictions were most evident in the 18th century, when the wealth of the merchant-capitalist class of Britain’s port-cities was contrasted with the untold human misery of the slaves, ra... A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American Revolution Faulkner, Neil Article 2011 In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forge... A Marxist History of the World part 56: The Indian Mutiny Faulkner, Neil Article 2012 The Indian Mutiny was the subcontinent’s first war of independence, with Indians of different ethnic and religious backgrounds fighting side-by-side despite the divide and rule fostered by the British... A Marxist History of the World part 62: The Scramble for Africa Faulkner, Neil Article 2012 The imperial competition to control Africa spawned a predatory colonialism of mines, plantations, and machine-guns and propelled humanity towards industrialised world war writes Neil Faulkner. A Marxist History of the World part 94: End of Empire? Faulkner, Neil Article 2012 In spite of the imperialist powers' attempts to cling on to their colonies, formal empire was finished by the late 1970s. But this was not the end of imperialism. A Marxist History of the World part 95: Oil, Zionism, and Western Imperialism Faulkner, Neil Article 2012 British support for the Zionist movement led to the foundation of Israel in 1948. In conjunction with US imperialism, the Israeli state is an enduring source of oppression in the Middle East. The National Question: Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg Luxemburg, Rosa (edited by Davis, Horace B.) Book 1976 In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationali... Penal transportation: Connexipedia Article Article The deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American R... A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium Harman, Chris Book 1999 Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital Chibber, Vivek Book 2013 Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may ch... Revolutionary Centennial: Guyana's 1905 Rebellion: Against The Current vol. 114 Westmaas, Nigel Article 2005 1905 was a landmark year in the history of Guyana, as it was for several places around the world. In Russia, the Tsar and his troops shot workers delivering a petition in St. Petersburg. In Bengal t... The Rise of British Imperialism: Capitalism and Slavery (Part Two) Article 2015 A presentation on the developments that made Britain the first modern imperialist power. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution Dunayevskaya, Raya Book 1981 Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Au... The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 Pakenham, Thomas Book 1991 Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroi... Stolen Continents: The "New World" Through Indian Eyes Wright, Ronald Book 1992 A history of the Americas through Native eyes. Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember Clements, Nicholas Article 2017 Tasmania’s Black War (1824-31) was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia's history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into co... Underhanded History of the USA: Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3 Thorkelson, Nick; O'Brien, Jim Book 1973 Who Could Ever Feel Pride in the Balfour Declaration? Fisk, Robert Article 2017 Although the Balfour Declaration itself has been parsed, de-semanticised, romanticised, decrypted, decried, cursed and adored for 100 years, its fraud is easy to detect: it made two promises which wer... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryFiles that may shed light on colonial crimes still kept secret by UK Cobain, Ian; Norton-Taylor, Richard 2013 Secret government files from the final years of the British empire are still being concealed despite a pledge by William Hague, the foreign secretary, that they would be declassified and opened to the... 5 of the worst atrocities carried out by British Empire, after 'historical amnesia' claims Osborne, Samuel 2017 A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of Britain's history of colonialism. The Independent looks at five of the worst atroc... 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery Wikipedia article 2017 The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies. 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