postcolonial studies
What does developmental history reveal that's hard to see any other way?: Post-colonial critics
Who built the map I grew up in Accra hearing about development. My country was developing. We had a development minister, development goals, development banks. The word appeared in every document the World Bank produced about us.... What does developmental history reveal that's hard to see any other way?: Narrative historians
The book that was impossible On March 20, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Within a year: 300,000 copies in the US, over a million in Britain, bestselling novel of the century.... What does developmental history reveal that's hard to see any other way?: The Story
The compensation bonds In 1833, Britain abolished slavery throughout its empire. In 1838, it began compensating the slaveholders — twenty million pounds, roughly forty percent of the national budget, paid not to the enslaved but to the people who had owned them....