Proposes a critical re-examination of resistance in colonial and anti-colonial thought
Explores new ways of thinking about resistance and colonialism during the period of modern European imperialism in the light of renewed interest in resistance studies
Chapters cover a range of case studies, from 'hidden' accounts using oral and written records, to local case studies and transnational perspectives

Autorentext

Nuno Domingos is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Associate Researcher at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, UK. He is author of Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique (2017).

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is author of The 'Civilizing Mission' of Portuguese Colonialism (c.1870-1930) (2015).
Ricardo Roque is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and an Honorary Associate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is author of Headhunting and Colonialism (2010).

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Rethinking Resistance and colonialism, Nuno Domingos, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, 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, Raphaëlle Branche.- Chapter 4 Gender struggle in Guinea-Bissau: Women's participation on and off the liberation record, Inês Galvão and Catarina Laranjeiro.- Chapter 5 Resisting the Conceptualization of Theft as Resistance and Informing as Collaboration: Capitalization Strategies on Angola's 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 Politics: Runaway Slaves in the Lower Orinoco River Basin in the Eighteenth Century, Matthew Nielsen.- Chapter 9 Disrupted ecologies and Conflicting Repertories of Colonial Rule in Early 20th century São Tomé, Marta Macedo.- Chapter 10 Beyond Resistance and Collaboration: The Bargains of Cooperation in the Spanish Sahara, 1950s-1970s, Andreas Stucki.- Part III Transnational Processes.- Chapter 11 Colonial Resistance and Anglo-German relations: The case of Jakob Marengo, Mads Bomholt Nielsen.- Chapter 12 Of Internal and External Imperialisms: International Law and Confucianist Visions of Empire as Latent Resistance in the Late Qing, Alexander Kais.- Chapter 13 International dimensions of resistance: Portuguese colonial labour policies and its critics abroad (1951-1963), José Pedro Monteiro.