Resistance and Colonialism: Insurgent Peoples in World History [Hardcover]

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.

Chapter 1 Rethinking Resistance and colonialism, Nuno Domingos, Miguel Bandeira Jer?nimo, Ricardo Roque.- Part I  Hidden Accounts.- Chapter 2 Demystifying Millenarianism: Oral Historical Evidence of Pukhtun Resistance and Colonial Warfare in the North-West Frontier of British India, Sameetah Agha.- Chapter 3 Fighters for Independence and rural society in colonial Algeria, Rapha?lle Branche.- Chapter 4 Gender struggle in Guinea-Bissau: Womens participation on and off the liberation record, In?s Galv?o and Catarina Laranjeiro.- Chapter 5 Resisting the Conceptualization of Theft as Resistance and Informing as Collaboration: Capitalization Strategies on Angolas Colonial-Era Diamond Mines, 1917-1975, Todd Cleveland.- Part II  Local Encounters.- Chapter 6 The Barbarians War: colonization and indigenous resistance in Brazil (1650-1720), Pedro Puntoni.- Chapter 7 A most inconvenient warfare: The impact of rebel-dacoits on rural resistance and colonial security after the IndianMutiny of 1857, Jacob Smith.- Chapter 8 Amphibious Flight and Transboundary Water Politicl“~