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The White Man's World(1st Edition)
by Bill Schwarz
Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-968603-2, ISBN: 0-19-968603-3

"The Memories of Empire trilogy explores the complex and subterranean political currents that emerged in English society during the years of post-war decolonization. Just as the empire ended, when white princesses waltzed with new black heads of state in celebration of independence from colonial rule, the registers of racial whiteness in the home society quickened, and racial segregation - the colour bar - became ever more pronounced. Wh ..."






The White Man's World(1st Edition)
(Memories of Empire)
by Bill Schwarz
Hardcover, 656 Pages, Published 2012 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929691-0, ISBN: 0-19-929691-X

"Memories of Empire is a trilogy which explores the complex, subterranean political currents which emerged in English society during the years of postwar decolonization. Bill Schwarz shows that, through the medium of memory, the empire was to continue to possess strange afterlives long after imperial rule itself had vanished.The White Man's World, the first volume in the trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the ..."






End of empire and the English novel since 1945(Reprint)
by Rachael Gilmour, Bill Schwarz
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-9745-4, ISBN: 0-7190-9745-2

"Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on th ..."






James Baldwin
America and Beyond
by Bill Schwarz, Cora Kaplan
Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Michigan Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-472-05152-6, ISBN: 0-472-05152-0

""This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin's stature as essayist, novelist, black prophetic political voice, and witness to the Civil Rights era. The title provides an excellent thematic focus. He understood both the necessity, and the impossibility, of being a black 'American' writer. He took these issues 'Beyond'---Paris, Istanbul, various parts of Africa---but this formative exp ..."






Churchill Myths
(Hardcover)
by Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz, Richard Toye
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2020 by Oup Oxford 2020-08-01, Oxford
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-885196-7, ISBN: 0-19-885196-0

"This is not a book about Winston Churchill."






Familiar Stranger(Reprint)
A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
by Stuart Hall, Bill Schwarz
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-7140-3, ISBN: 0-8223-7140-5

""Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall—how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectual lights. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his ..."






Caribbean Literature after Independence
The Case of Earl Lovelace
by Bill Schwarz
Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2008 by Institute Of Latin American Studies
ISBN-13: 978-1-900039-91-8, ISBN: 1-900039-91-5

"Trinidad, historically located at the crossroads of the Americas, has produced an incomparable national literature, fashioning genres that have informed the Caribbean region as a whole. One of the greatest contemporary Trinidadian writers is Earl Lovelace. His novelistic performative epics combine the rhythms of steelband and calypso with the narrative complexity of Faulkner. Lovelace was an early enthusiast for Black Power and remains ..."






West Indian intellectuals in Britain(1st Edition)
(Studies in Imperialism MUP)
by Bill Schwarz, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2003 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-6475-3, ISBN: 0-7190-6475-9

"Caribbean migration to Britain brought many new things - new musics, new foods, new styles. It brought new ways of thinking too. This innovative book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of imperial Britain. In this comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thi ..."






The Expansion of England(1st Edition)
Race, Ethnicity and Cultural History
by Bill Schwarz, William Schwars
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1996 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-06026-4, ISBN: 0-415-06026-5

"The organized study of history began in Britain when the Empire was at its height. Belief in the destiny of imperial England profoundly shaped the imagination of the first generation of professional historians. But with the Empire ended, do these mental habits still haunt historical explanation? Drawing on postcolonial theory in a lively mix of historical and theoretical chapters, The Expansion of England explores the history of the Bri ..."






Frontlines-Backyards
Number 33, Spring 1998 (New Formations S.)
by Unknown Unknown, Bill Schwarz, David Glover, Phil Cohen
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1998 by Lawrence & Wishart
ISBN-13: 978-0-85315-858-5, ISBN: 0-85315-858-4






Familiar Stranger
A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
by Stuart Hall, Bill Schwarz
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6387-3, ISBN: 0-8223-6387-9

""Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectual lights. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his ..."






Selected Political Writings
The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
by Stuart Hall, David Featherstone, Michael Rustin, Bill Schwarz, Sally Davison
Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2017 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6906-6, ISBN: 0-8223-6906-0

"Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays span the whole of Hall's career, from his early involvement with the New Left, to his critique of Thatcherism, to his later focus on neoliberalism. Whether addressing economic decline an ..."






Memory(1st Edition)
Histories, Theories, Debates
by Susannah Radstone, Bill Schwarz, Erica Apfelbaum, Sally Alexander, Amanda Barnier, Felicity Callard, Howard Caygill, Mary Carruthers, Annie Coombes, Stephan Feuchtwang, Fordham University Press, Mark Freeman, Steve Goodman
Paperback, 500 Pages, Published 2010 by Fordham University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-3260-4, ISBN: 0-8232-3260-3

"Memory has never been closer to us, yet never more difficult to understand. In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. The volume reconstructs the work of the great philosophical and literary figures of the last two centuries who recast the concept of memory and brought it into the forefr ..."






James Baldwin
America and Beyond
by Bill Schwarz, Cora Kaplan
258 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Michigan Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-472-02761-3, ISBN: 0-472-02761-1

"George Shulman discusses this aspect of Baldwin more fully in chapter 5 of this volume, “Baldwin, Prophecy, and Politics.” 2. Bloch, Strange Defeat, 118. 3. Gaines, “Closing Plenary Panel,” James Baldwin: Work, Life, Legacies, 28-30 June, 2007. What this may mean, and the complexities involved, are addressed by Robert Reid-Pharr in chapter 6 of this volume, “Rendezvous with Life.” 4. McBride, “Introduction,” 8-9. 5. Particularly Ki ..."






Tracy, California Fire Department
100th Anniversary: 1910-2010
by Bill Schwarz, Clarke Caldwell
96 Pages, Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-934729-28-1, ISBN: 1-934729-28-0






Cccs Classic Texts Set
Making Histories: Studies in history-writing and politics (Volume 1)
by Professor Gregor Mclennan, Richard Johnson, Bill Schwarz, Dr David Sutton Rab, Editor-Cccs
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-40278-1, ISBN: 0-415-40278-6

"First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."






Making Histories(1st Edition)
Studies in History, Writing and Politics
by Richard Johnson, Gregor Mclennan, Bill Schwarz, David Sutton
Paperback, 379 Pages, Published 1983 by University Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1165-2, ISBN: 0-8166-1165-3






Making Histories - Studies in history-writing and politics(Illustrated)
by Richard Johnson, Gregor Mclennan, Bill Schwarz, David Sutton, University Of Birmingham
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1982 by Harpercollins Publishers Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-145211-7, ISBN: 0-09-145211-2






Crises in the British State, 1880-1930(1st Edition)
by Mary Langan, Bill Schwarz, W. Schwarz, Hutchinson Educational
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1985 by Harpercollins Publishers Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-154681-6, ISBN: 0-09-154681-8






Selected Political Writings
The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
by Stuart Hall, David Featherstone, Sally Davison, Michael Rustin, Bill Schwarz
Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2017 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6386-6, ISBN: 0-8223-6386-0

"Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays span the whole of Hall's career, from his early involvement with the New Left, to his critique of Thatcherism, to his later focus on neoliberalism. Whether addressing economic decline an ..."



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