Decolonisation

David Anderson looks at the contentious issues raised as Kenya comes to terms with the colonial past.

On November 1st, 1954, an insurrection broke out in Algeria.

Harold Perkin discusses the role of the extraction and distribution of surplus production in historical change, from Ancient Egypt to the 21st century.

Cherry Barnett recalls the history of Europe’s last colonial toehold in China, as the Portuguese colony of Macao returns to rule by Beijing.

Dutch sovereignty was transferred to the United States of Indonesia on November 2nd, 1949.

J.E. Spence considers the interface between ideological and geopolitical factors in the struggle for supremacy in Southern Africa.

Jean Alphonse Bernard considers the two key provinces and how they became touchstones and then powderkegs in the nationalist aspirations of both sides.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 16th, 1847.

Martin Evans on witnesses from the Battle of Algiers, forty years on - and their contribution to the debate on contemporary history.

Ronan Thomas takes a look at the cultures of Korea after becoming independent from Japan in 1945.

Bernard Porter argues that the 'End of Empire' unravelled British domestic politics as well as her international outlook.

John McLeod presents a study from the last days of the Raj of an Indian ruler who defied the stereotype of princely extravagance and self-indulgence.

Karl Hack on the links between dams and decolonisation and the ups and downs of Anglo-Malaysian relations.