This title explores the process of decolonization of France's largest colony, French West Africa. The author challenges the traditional dichotomy between "imperial" and "colonial" history, and asks was successful decolonization achieved largely by accident.

This volume analyzes the transformation of English football in the 1990s. It provides an account of football culture in Britain that contributes to the sport and sheds a wider light on transformations in British Society.

Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about women and gender.

"English Patient" is the winner of the 1992 Booker Prize.