Author(s): Priyamvada Gopal

Colonialism, Imperialism & De-colonisation

Insurgent Empire recasts the histories of the major anticolonial struggles - the Indian Mutiny, the Morant Bay uprising in Jamaica, the Urabi Rebellion in Egypt, and the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya - and shows that Britain's colonial subjects were not merely victims of empire but also agents whose resistance both contributed to their own liberation and shaped British ideas about freedom. Book jacket.