TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miles,William F.S.
TI  - Scars of partition: postcolonial legacies in French and British borderlands 
SN  - 9780803248328 (paperback)
AV  - JV151 .M48 2014
U1  - 325/.341 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - French-speaking countries
KW  - Partition, Territorial
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Colonial influence
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - France
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -