Scars of Partition: Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands by W

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Based on three decades of fieldwork throughout the developing world, this book helps you evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World.

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Based on three decades of fieldwork throughout the developing world, Scars of Partition is the first book to systematically evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World. It pays particular attention to the contemporary legacies of artificial boundaries superimposed by Britain and France that continue to divide indigenous peoples into separate postcolonial states. In so doing, it uniquely illustrates how the distinctive stamps of France and Britain continue to mark daily life along and behind these inherited borders in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Caribbean.Scars of Partition draws on political science, anthropology, history, and geography to examine six cases of indigenous, indentured, and enslaved peoples partitioned by colonialism in West Africa, West Indies, South Pacific, Southeast Asia, South India, and the Indian Ocean. William F. S. Miles demonstrates that sovereign nations throughout the developing world, despite basic differences in culture, geography, and politics, still bear the underlying imprint of their colonial pasts. Disentangling and appreciating these embedded colonial legacies is critical to achieving full decolonization-particularly in their borderlands.

Author Biography

William F. S. Miles is a professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston. He is the author of numerous books, including Hausaland Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger and Bridging Mental Boundaries in a Postcolonial Microcosm: Identity and Development in Vanuatu.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsList of TablesPreface and Acknowledgments1. Anglo-French Partition and Postcolonialism2. Classical Colonial Partition: West Africa3. Partition by Island: West Indies4. Political Arbitrariness of Archipelagoes: The South Pacific5. Soft, Sequential, and Hybridic Colonialism: French India and the Indian Ocean6. Mainland Southeast Asia and the Conundrum of Communism7. Scars of Partition in Postcolonial Borderlands and BeyondNotesBibliographyIndex

Review

"This splendid volume is a seminal contribution to the comparative study of colonialism, decolonization, and colonial legacy... A magnum opus embodying a lifetime of careful research, and a strikingly original research design." - Crawford Young, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence

Review Quote

"William Miles's Scars of partition is an enormously ambitious work."--Mark Leopold, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Details ISBN0803248326 Author William F.S. Miles Short Title SCARS OF PARTITION Publisher University of Nebraska Press Language English ISBN-10 0803248326 ISBN-13 9780803248328 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2014 Imprint University of Nebraska Press Subtitle Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands Place of Publication Lincoln Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2014-07-01 UK Release Date 2014-07-01 AU Release Date 2014-07-01 NZ Release Date 2014-07-01 US Release Date 2014-07-01 Pages 386 DEWEY 325.30904 Illustrations 4 photographs, 3 illustrations, 21 maps, 9 tables Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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