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Afterword (2022)
Book Chapter
Reeves, M. (2022). Afterword. In H. Fischer-Tiné, & N. Slate (Eds.), The United States and South Asia from the Age of Empire to Decolonization: A History of Entanglements (267-274). Leiden: Leiden University Press

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.

A gilded cage? Nnamdi Azikiwe's Pan-Africanism as governor-general of Nigeria, 1960–63 (2021)
Journal Article
Reeves, M. (2021). A gilded cage? Nnamdi Azikiwe's Pan-Africanism as governor-general of Nigeria, 1960–63. Journal of West African History, 7(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestafrihist.7.1.0001

Historians have wrongly ignored the period when Nnamdi Azikiwe served as governor-general of Nigeria, just after its independence (1960-63). Archival materials in Britain, the United States, and Azikiwe’s own papers in Nigeria reveal that he played a... Read More about A gilded cage? Nnamdi Azikiwe's Pan-Africanism as governor-general of Nigeria, 1960–63.

Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937 (2020)
Book Chapter
Reeves, M. (2020). Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937. In M. Louro, C. Stolte, H. Streets-Salter, & S. Tannoury-Karam (Eds.), The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives (283-308). Leiden University Press

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.

‘Free and equal partners in your commonwealth’: The Atlantic charter and anticolonial delegations to London, 1941–3 (2017)
Journal Article
Reeves, M. (2018). ‘Free and equal partners in your commonwealth’: The Atlantic charter and anticolonial delegations to London, 1941–3. Twentieth Century British History, 29(2), 259-283. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwx043

This article examines the efforts of two anticolonial politicians from the British Empire who used official visits to London and the rhetoric of the Atlantic Charter (14 August 1941) to advance their political careers and self-government for their te... Read More about ‘Free and equal partners in your commonwealth’: The Atlantic charter and anticolonial delegations to London, 1941–3.

A fascist triangle or a rotary wheel: The Sino-Japanese war and the gendered internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo (2017)
Book Chapter
Huckestein, E., & Reeves, M. (2017). A fascist triangle or a rotary wheel: The Sino-Japanese war and the gendered internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo. In C. Ceniza Choy, & J. Tzu-Chun Wu (Eds.), Gendering the Trans-Pacific World (77-106). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004336100_006

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
Reeves, M. (2016). M'Fam goes home: African soldiers in the Gabon campaign of 1940. In Dissent, Protest and Dispute in Africa (91-113). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315413099-13

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.

Teaching decolonization beyond the nation: The case of West Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Reeves, M. (2016). Teaching decolonization beyond the nation: The case of West Africa. World History Connected, 13(2),

How should we teach the history of decolonization, especially in a wide-ranging survey course? Debate has typically raged over whether we should emphasize the actions of imperial governments over independence movements, and vice versa. However, yet... Read More about Teaching decolonization beyond the nation: The case of West Africa.