General:

• Postcolonial Studies (Deepika Bahri, Emory University). This excellent site includes pages devoted to individual authors, theorists, and "key terms" in postcolonial studies.
• Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature (George Landow, National University of Singapore). Begun in the 1990s and now largely a "legacy" site, but still featuring much valuable content.
• Internet Resources in Anglophone Literatures (Alan Liu, Voice of the Shuttle, UCSB). An exhaustive directory of links (some outdated) pertaining to literatures in English from countries other than the U.S. and the U.K.
• Internet Resources in Postcolonial Studies.  Also from Voice of the Shuttle.

Imperialism, Colonialism and Resistance (British, American & European):

• "The British Empire" (David Cody, The Victorian Web, National U of Singapore). See esp. "The British Empire: An Introduction."
• Two units of Norton's Topics Online: Victorian Imperialism and From Imperialism to Postcolonialism: Perspectives on the British Empire. Be sure to check out the various pull-down menus in the sidebars.
• The New York Public Library's 2011 "Africana Age" exhibit (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) includes essays on the Colonization of Africa, African Resistance to Colonial Rule, and African Decolonization
• Sadly,the exhaustive collections of texts from the Anti-Imperialist movement that the late Jim Zwick of Syracuse University had assembled into one indispensible web portal, Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935 (alternate description) were taken down shortly before his tragically untimely death in 2008. This was a truly splendid site, painstakingly assembled and well maintained.  "These pages introduce the first organizations formed to oppose U.S. territorial and economic imperialism and make available...a large collection of anti-imperialist literature. Much of it was written by authors whose works are still appreciated and studied today but whose roles in the anti-imperialist movement are not widely known. Other literary responses, like the numerous newspaper and magazine verses written in response to Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden," are restored here from near-total obscurity.  These writings...represent part of the important cultural response to imperialism." One hopes that Zwick's students or heirs will one day find a way to restore his important work.  

Journals:

• Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History (online edition via the Project Muse database; access limited to users at HSU and other subscribing intstitutions)
• Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, an online journal formerly published by the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University.  Ceased publication in 2002, but issues are still archived online.
• Research in African Literatures (online edition via the Project Muse database; access limited to users at HSU and other subscribing intstitutions)
• Callaloo (online edition via the JSOR and Project Muse databases; access limited to users at HSU and other subscribing intstitutions) is the premiere journal of criticism and original works by and about black writers worldwide.
• Third World Quarterly : Journal of Emerging Areas (online edition via the JSTOR, EBSCO and Informaworld databases; access limited to users at HSU and other subscribing intstitutions). TWQ calls itself "a journal that looks beyond strict 'development studies,' providing an alternative and over-arching reflective analysis of micro-economic and grassroot efforts of development practitioners and planners."

Selected Articles on Globalism, Neo-Colonialism, and Empire:

Some articles below may only be available to subscribers. If you're not a subscriber but would like to read them, please e-mail me and I'll arrange to get you a copy. As you can see, I haven't updated this collection in a while, but I'm always glad to learn about new pieces to include.

• Walden Bello, "Manufacturing a Food Crisis" (The Nation 15 May 2008): The IMF, the WTO, and the global restructuring of agriculture
• Katherine Boo, "The Best Job in Town: The Americanization of Chennai" (The New Yorker 5 July 2004): a ground-level view of "outsourcing" in India. (Alternate source)
• Mike Davis, "Planet of Slums" (New Left Review 26 [March-April 2004]; HSU users only): Structural adjustment programs are among the primary forces creating miserable megalopolises throughout the "developing" world, while various strains of religious fundamentalism provide the only viable ideology of resistance for their inhabitants. (An abbreviated version of this article appeared in Harper's June 2004.)
• Daphne Eviatar, "Africa's Oil Tycoons" (The Nation 12 April 2004): Many of you will already be familiar with Royal Dutch Shell's skulduggery among the Ogoni of southeastern Nigeria; here's a report on Chevron's current shenanigans in Angola.
• Greg Grandin, "What's a Neoliberal to Do?" (The Nation March 10, 2003). Review article of Amy Chua's World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability.
• Doug Henwood, "Beyond Globophobia" (The Nation December 1, 2003). Some deep historical perspective on globalization.
• Naomi Klein, "A Noose, Not a Bracelet" (The Nation June 27, 2005): on the occasion of the 2005 G-8 Summit, Klein reminds us of the ongoing economic pillage of Africa (by multinational corporations, among others) and of those like Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa who have died fighting it.
• Anatol Lieven, "The Empire Strikes Back" (The Nation July 7, 2003): a good review of several recent reconsiderations of US imperialism.
• John Nichols, "Enron's Global Crusade" (The Nation, 4 March 2002):  Nichols argues that the Enron scandal is not merely a domestic outrage, but a window on the inherently neo-colonial character of economic globalization.
• Alison Solomon, "Out of Africa" (The Nation, 5 March 2007): a report from the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi.

Related/Reference:

• Encyclopedia Britannica's World Atlas (HSU users only).  Maps, flags, essays, and statistics on individual countries. (Zoom in on the world map, if necessary, to click on a country and generate links to its detailed profile.)
• CIA World Factbook.  Country-by-country maps, statistics, demographics, etc., brought to you by everyone's  favorite global spooks.
• Official development propaganda from the World Bank and the IMF.
• World Map: The Peters Projection.  Which is bigger, Greenland or China? With the traditional Mercator map (circa 1569, and still in use in many schoolrooms and boardrooms today), Greenland and China look the same size. But in reality China is almost 4 times larger! In response to such discrepancies, Dr. Arno Peters created a new world map that dramatically improves the accuracy of how we see the Earth.
• Center For World Indigenous Studies.  CWIS is an independent, non-profit research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations.
• Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. Awarded each year by the Lannan Foundation to "people whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry, and expression. As defined by the foundation, cultural freedom is the right of individuals and communities to define and protect valued and diverse ways of life currently threatened by globalization." Past winners have included writers Eduardo Galeano, Mahmoud Darwish, and Arundhati Roy.
• Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (London: Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1973)
• Global Literary Theory: companion website of the book edited by Richard J. Lane