Colonialismo e imperialismo

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  • Knowledge, mediation and empire
    Florence D'Souza / Florence D’Souza
    Studies Tod’s relationships with particular Rajput leaders and with the Rajputs as a group in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and social customs to British and European readers. ...
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    157,25 €

  • The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland
    Kate Skinner
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    129,98 €

  • History of the Caribbean
    Frank Moya Pons
    From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on cotton, indigo, tobacco, coffee, and bananas -- brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners, effected a fundamental shift in the landscape and economy of the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, saw the enslavement of first indigeno...
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    103,77 €

  • Historical Problems of Imperial Africa
    This book is designed to inform, engage, and stimulate discussions among its readers. Collins and his collaborators have included authoritative statements and analysis by renowned scholars. A distinctive characteristic of the whole anthology is the range of interpretations of classic and recent research. The book offers a full spectrum of emotionally charged theories. Each sect...
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    80,10 €

  • Puerto Rico, An Interpretive History
    Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim
    Because many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico have been written by the island’s colonizers, only the victors were celebrated. With this in mind, the author has expressly composed this book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed, and exploited. She challenges a previously-held notion that the Taínos simply gave up at the first sight of the Spaniards, and sho...
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    57,49 €

  • The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone
    Using Sierra Leone as a case study, this book examines the nature of knowledge production and interpretation of African history since the decade of African independence. This anthology provides critical reflections on major themes such as ethnicity, class, gender, identity formation, nation building, resistance, and social conflict. ...
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    78,90 €

  • Exporting empire
    Christopher Prior
    Looks at the attitudes of colonial officials in Africa who served between the end of the19th century and WWII, as well as what shaped such attitudes, including education and training, interrelationships, infrastructural change, and anti-colonial nationalism. ...
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    33,54 €

  • Healing in the Homeland
    Armand / Margaret Mitchell Armand
    Margaret Mitchell Armand presents a cutting edge interdisciplinary terrain inside an indigenous exploration of her homeland. Her contribution to the historiography of Haïtian Vodou demonstrates the struggle for its recognition in Haïti’s post-independence phase as well as its continued misunderstanding. Through a methodological, original study of the colonial culture of slavery...
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    62,52 €

  • Exploring the Dutch Empire
    Catia Antunes
    In 1602, the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the first commercial company, the Dutch East India Company, and, in so doing, initiated a new wave of globalization. Even though Dutch engagement in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans dates back to the 16th century, it was the dawn of the 17th century that brought the Dutch into the fold of the gener...
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    59,88 €

  • Exploring the Dutch Empire
    In 1602, the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the first commercial company, the Dutch East India Company, and, in so doing, initiated a new wave of globalization. Even though Dutch engagement in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans dates back to the 16th century, it was the dawn of the 17th century that brought the Dutch into the fold of the gener...
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    206,22 €

  • The Burdens of Empire
    Anthony Pagden
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    124,10 €

  • Imperial Projections
    Wolfgang Fuhrmann
    'Imperial Projections is a pioneering exploration of the intersection of early film history, the study of popular visual culture, and German colonial history in the years before the First World War . . . By showing that colonial images could, and did, mean different things to different people, Imperial Projections offers a refreshing rethinking of monolithic terms such as ’the ...
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    183,92 €

  • Crises of Empire
    Bob Moore / L. J. Butler / Martin Thomas
    Crisesof Empire offers a comprehensive and uniquelycomparative analysis of the history of decolonization in the British, Frenchand Dutch empires.By comparing the processesof decolonization across three of the major modern empires, from the aftermathof the First World War to the late 20th century, the authors are able toanalyse decolonization as a long-term process. They explore...
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    205,52 €

  • Templer and the Road to Malayan Independence
    Leon Comber
    Dr Comber’s account of General Templer’s administration in Malaya as High Commissioner and Director of Operations (1952-54) during the Malayan Emergency departs from the usually accepted orthodox assessment of his time in Malaya by focusing on the political and socioeconomic aspects of his governance rather than the military. In doing so, Dr Comber has relied mainly on primary ...
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    36,65 €

  • Heroic imperialists in Africa
    Berny Sèbe
    This book looks at imperial heroes from behind the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories under a radically new angle. It demonstrates how their reputations were made over several decades, and depicts the milieus and individuals who supported, and benefited from, these heroic stories. ...
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    44,04 €

  • History, heritage, and colonialism
    Kynan Gentry
    Explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin. ...
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    157,37 €

  • The Burdens of Empire
    Anthony Pagden
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    35,48 €

  • Beyond Fragmentation
    In this book, leading scholars pull together some of the most recent research on the key themes of Caribbean history: slavery, the transition to freedom, colonialism, and decolonization. Although all parts of the Caribbean experienced these phases, the manner in which they did so differed significantly, in part because of their distinct imperial histories. Contemporary fragment...
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    80,17 €

  • Sex and Control
    Daniel J. Walther / Daniel JWalther
    'The author...explains venereal diseases in the former German Imperial colonies in Africa, the Pacific, and Kiautschou/China as an epidemiological, but most of all, cultural and social phenomenon....A detailed study on venereal diseases and their political, social, cultural, and of course medical impact was missing so far. Walther adds it to colonial historiography.' · Wolfga...
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    184,53 €

  • In the club
    Benjamin Cohen
    A comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia ...
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    157,64 €

  • The Black Pacific
    Robbie Shilliam
    Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with South Pacific people? How have Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha activists incorporated the ideologies of the African diaspora into their struggle against colonial rule and racism, and their pursuit of social justice? This book challenges predominant understandings of the historical linkages that make up the (post-)colo...
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    193,42 €

  • Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana
    Ann Marie Bissessar / John Gaffar La Guerre
    For the first time, an attempt is made to examine the relationship between race and politics in two plural societies in the Caribbean. While there has been no dearth of literature on race, this book contends that it is important to look at other predisposing factors that impact politics and that are challenges facing ex-colonial countries. The book also presents, for the first ...
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    64,04 €

  • African Women
    Patricia W. Romero
    African women have made history as doctors, merchants, slaves, prostitutes, and religious leaders. In this survey of the roles women have played in sub-Saharan Africa, from the Queen of Sheba in Ethiopia to the elected presidents of contemporary Liberia and Malawi, Romero discusses education and religion, medicine and the occult, and the presence of women on the political stage...
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    89,69 €

  • Protests, Land Rights, and Riots
    Barry Morris
    'Morris deploys the incisive tools of anthropology to deconstruct the way neoliberal policies of the 1980s began to reverse the political gains Australian Aborigines had made in the 1970s...This work is of crucial relevance for thinking beyond the present neoliberal impasse.' · Gillian Cowlishaw, Sydney University'Morris reveals the lie underpinning so much recent cant but mo...
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    184,43 €

  • The Making of an African King
    Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
    The Making of an African King examines the source of the kingship struggle in Winneba, Ghana as seen by colonial administrators, and the final court ruling in June 2013 between the patrilineal Otuano Royal Family against the non-royal Acquah faction that favors matrilineal system of succession practiced by the Akan. ...
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    58,17 €

  • Target
    F William Engdahl
    China today has become a world economic giant in just three decades. The country's central bank holds more than $3.5 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, mostly in dollars. Without the Chinese colossus, the USA might have long ago gone bankrupt, unable to finance its exploding national debt. Now that China has emerged as the world's second largest economy, some powerful circl...
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    25,51 €

  • Ousmane Sembene and the Politics of Culture
    Undoubtedly one of Africa’s most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene’s creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number of scholarly articles. The schemas of reading applied to Sembene’s oeuvre (novels, short stories and films) have, in the main, focused either on his militant posture against colon...
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    132,04 €

  • Navigating Colonial Orders
    'Navigating Colonial Orders is an extremely valuable record of geographically extensive and variously troubled and profitable Norwegian overseas adventures, enterprise and community from 1850 to 1950. Collated in a single, compelling collection, a series of painstakingly researched chapters by thirteen accomplished scholars examines Norwegian commerce, shipping, whaling, fishin...
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    183,50 €

  • Writing imperial histories
    This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual trends in Imperial history. ...
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    42,95 €

  • Anglophone-Cameroon Literature
    Emmanuel Fru Doh
    Against a disturbing political backdrop and through an in-depth appraisal of selected illustrative texts from major genres-poetry, prose, and drama-Emmanuel Fru Doh presents the origins and growth of a young but potent literature. To him, Anglophone-Cameroon literature is a weapon in the hands of an oppressed English speaking minority in his native Cameroon, Africa, who were un...
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    142,91 €


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