Stephen Howe
Stephen Howe is Professor in the History and Cultures of Colonialism at the University of Bristol
Articles by Stephen Howe
Book review: Frantz Fanon, A Biography
More than fifty years after his death revolutionary Frantz Fanon continues to inspire and perplex in equal measure. Stephen Howe welcomes a new edition of the definitive biography
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Book review: The Dictator’s Learning Curve: Inside The Global Battle for Democracy
With Mubarak and Gaddafi vanquished, and Assad clinging on, there couldn't be a more auspicious time for a book about how dictators have adapted to modernity. Right time, right subject, but wrong book says Stephen Howe.
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Aftershock: 9/11 ten years on
A decade after the destruction of the Twin Towers, the greatest change to the world has been the reinvention of Islam, says Stephen Howe
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Book review: Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven
Stephen Howe discovers the best book to be written on modern Pakistan
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Book review: The Honour Code by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Stephen Howe decodes Anthony Appiah
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Book review: Hamas by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell & Hizbullah by Naim Qassem
When it comes to the two big Islamic political parties in the Middle East, should we fight or engage, asks Stephen Howe
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The New Old World by Perry Anderson
Stephen Howe on Perry Anderson's monumental analysis of Europe
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The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan
Stephen Howe on a new history of the Arabs
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No fear
I’m not disdainful of blogs, I just want them to live up to their democratic promise. Stephen Howe responds to Owen Hatherley
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South Africa’s Brave New World by RW Johnson
Stephen Howe on a monumental, snarling study of post-apartheid South Africa
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Blog standard
How well does online punditry translate on the printed page? Stephen Howe finds out
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Dangerous mind?
Stephen Howe chases the storm of controversy surrounding the ideas of Edward Said
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God’s Executioner by Micheál Ó Siochrú
Stephen Howe on a new history of Cromwell's Irish adventure
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The Roads to Modernity: the British, French and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Stephen Howe asks why Gordon Brown is endorsing Neocon history
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True confessions
What can we learn about extremism from the memoirs of former Islamist radicals? Stephen Howe investigates
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From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience Since 1975 by Mark Garnett
Stephen Howe is bored with apathy
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Occidental tourist
Stephen Howe is baffled by the same old story
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Against the tide
Stephen Howe wallows in left melancholia
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