All Outputs (6)

A ham carved by the sword of European imperialism: African views on the Berlin Conference from 1885 to the present (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter introduces the trope of the 1884-5 Berlin Conference as a 'carve-up' of Africa -- whether as a cake or a ham -- especially in the writing of Nigerian pan-Africanist and anti-colonialist Nnamdi Azikiwe. The chapter also discusses early pa... Read More about A ham carved by the sword of European imperialism: African views on the Berlin Conference from 1885 to the present.

Carlos Romulo, rotary internationalism, and conservative anticolonialism (2023)
Book Chapter

Afterword (2022)
Book Chapter

As sites of British imperial state-making and resistance to colonial power, India and the United States have found themselves entangled since the late eighteenth century. To choose a paradigmatic moment, the dumping of East India Company tea into Bos... Read More about Afterword.

Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937 (2020)
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V.K. Krishna Menon always made people angry. When he left southern India in 1924, coming to England under the auspices of his mentor Annie Besant’s Theosophist and Indian Home Rule movement, Menon disappointed his father by not becoming a lawyer and... Read More about Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937.

A fascist triangle or a rotary wheel: The Sino-Japanese war and the gendered internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo (2017)
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In comparing the political discourses of two newspaper publishers, politically and geographically worlds apart, this chapter seeks to understand how gendered visions of the world directly influenced geopolitical analysis. The disparity in responses t... Read More about A fascist triangle or a rotary wheel: The Sino-Japanese war and the gendered internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo.

M'Fam goes home: African soldiers in the Gabon campaign of 1940 (2016)
Book Chapter

Introduction Over three days in October 1940, Marcel M’Fam, a thirty-three-year-old Gabonese first-class guard in the French colonial army, decided to go home and spend time with his wife rather than return to his post. His desertion, along with that... Read More about M'Fam goes home: African soldiers in the Gabon campaign of 1940.