Resistance and Colonialism: Insurgent Peoples in World History

Resistance and Colonialism: Insurgent Peoples in World History
ISBN-10
3030191672
ISBN-13
9783030191672
Category
History
Pages
356
Language
English
Published
2019-08-01
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Nuno Domingos, Ricardo Roque

Description

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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