Ebook: Empires of the mind: the colonial past and the politics of the present

Empires constructed and contested -- Empires in crisis : two world wars -- The imperialism of decolonisation -- Neo-colonialism, new global empire -- Colonising in reverse and colonialist backlash -- Europe : in or out? -- Islamism and the retreat to monocultural nationalism -- Hubris and nemesis : Iraq, the colonial fracture and global economic crisis -- The empire strikes back -- Fantasy, anguish and working through.