{"id":2338,"date":"2025-10-14T13:39:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:11:23","slug":"amal-chatterjee-announces-forthcoming-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2338","title":{"rendered":"Amal Chatterjee announces forthcoming new book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Prisoners of Empire: How Former Colonies Were Set Up to Fail<\/em><\/p>\n

Amal Chatterjee<\/p>\n


“A compelling social and political balance-sheet of empire, revealing how former colonies worldwide are still shackled by the legacies of colonial oppression.

Why do some former colonies fail, staggering from crisis to crisis, while others recover? Why did so many succumb to dictatorship, corruption, civil war and instability after independence?

Amal Chatterjee argues that these \u2018failures\u2019 are underpinned by persistent, robust colonial structures which preserve and reproduce the oppressive, exploitative systems of the past\u2026.”

https:\/\/www.hurstpublishers.com\/book\/prisoners-of-empire\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prisoners of Empire: How Former Colonies Were Set Up to Fail Amal Chatterjee “A compelling social and political balance-sheet of empire, revealing how former colonies worldwide are still shackled by the legacies of colonial oppression. Why do some former colonies fail, staggering from crisis to crisis, while others recover? 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