📚 Decolonization

Empires winding down after 1945: the negotiated, the violent, and the borders that outlived both.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject decolonization in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Perspectives in Imperial	Robert F. Holland	1984	10
	Transformation of Southeast Asia	Frey, Marc	2003	10
	Introduction à la politique congolaise	Crawford Young	1965	9
	Necropolitics	Achille Mbembe	2016	8
	Post-Colonial Transformation	Bill Ashcroft	2001	7
	Decolonization	P. Duara	2003	7
	Globalization and the Decolonial Option	Walter Mignolo	2009	7
	First Wave of Decolonization	Mark Thurner	2019	7
	Auflösung der Kolonialreiche	Franz Ansprenger	1973	6
	Africa since 1940	Frederick Cooper	2002	6
	Routledge Companion to Decolonization	Dietmar Rothermund	2006	6
	Decolonization and its impact	Martin Shipway	2007	6
	Global History of the Developing World	Christopher M. White	2013	6
	Decolonization in Africa	John D. Hargreaves	2014	6
	Third World Studies	Gary Y. Okihiro	2016	6
	Allies at the End of Empire	David M. Anderson	2017	6
	Decolonising Heritage in South Asia	Himanshu Prabha Ray	2018	6
	Modern History of Somalia	Lewis, I. M.	2019	6
	Decolonization	Raymond Betts	1998	5
	Decolonization	Prasenjit Duara	2003	5
	Colonialism in Question	Frederick Cooper	2005	5
	Re-membering Africa	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo	2009	5
	Colonialism	Norrie Macqueen	2014	5
	Cultures of decolonisation	Claire Wintle	2016	5
	Frantz Fanon, Postcolonialism and the Ethics of Difference	Azzedine Haddour	2019	5
	Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education	Fikile Nxumalo	2019	5
	Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century	Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni	2021	5
	Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and Postcolonial Zimbabwe	Thomas Panganayi Thondhlana	2022	5
	Main basse sur le Cameroun	Mongo Beti	1972	4
	Histoire de la France coloniale	Jean Meyer	1990	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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