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  • A New Scotland, A
    Gregor Gall
    Inequality and unfairness still stalk Scotland after more than twenty years of devolution. Having done little to shield against austerity, Brexit and an increasingly right-wing Westminster agenda, calls for further constitutional reform to solve pressing political, economic and social problems grow ever louder. The debate over further devolution or independence continues to spl...
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    126,04 €

  • History and Myth
    This anthology, ’History and Myth: Postcolonial Dimensions’, seeks to interrogate and dismantle the colonially structured symmetrical interpretations of the histories and mythological narratives of the former European colonies through depolarization, pluriversality, and border thinking. Here, the concepts of history and myth have been addressed from different perspectives and s...
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    46,07 €

  • Corn, Crown, and Conflagration
    J.A.M. Kinsella
    Epochs ago, a tribe prophesized that foreigners would plunder and dominate their land. The prophecy also warned that if the foreign aggressors did not atone for their sins of cruelty, theft, and murder, they would suffer from great fire and destruction. After five centuries of brutal occupation, a relentless virus with mysterious origins challenges the rulers. Will the repercus...
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    13,66 €

  • The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan
    Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
    The collapse of neoliberal hegemony in the western world following the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent rise of right-wing authoritarian personalities has been described as a crisis of ’the political’ in western societies. But the crisis must be seen as global, rather than focusing on the west alone. Pakistan is experiencing rapid financialization and rapacious capture ...
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    127,25 €

  • Imperial Atrocities
    Michael Arnold
    Imperial Atrocities: Skeletons in Colonial Closets does not expose the total colonial story, but this eye-opening book does present a selection of some of the worst excesses perpetrated by Colonials throughout the world.In two cases, those of Ireland and India, native populations were allowed to starve. Their Colonial masters did nothing to either assist or provide food that wa...
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    26,16 €

  • A History of Rhodesia 1890-1900
    Howard Hensman
    The very first history of the British colonisation of the land which later became famous as Rhodesia, and is now called Zimbabwe.This book, first published in 1900, was specifically commissioned by famous British Imperialist Cecil John Rhodes and his British South Africa Company (BSAC) with the intention of countering some of the negative publicity which the BSAC had encountere...
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    19,35 €

  • Transnationalism and Imperialism
    David Roche / Hervé Mayer
    While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent e...
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    57,15 €

  • Transnationalism and Imperialism
    David Roche / Hervé Mayer
    While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent e...
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    128,79 €

  • Beyond Coloniality
    Aaron Kamugisha
    Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence s...
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    42,72 €

  • Creating the Opium War
    Hao Gao
    This book explores British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from 1792 to 1840. ...
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    44,44 €

  • Rival Caesars
    Arthur Desmond / Will H. Dilg
    RIVAL CAESARS - A Romance of Ambition, Love and War.Being the tale of a Vice-President, a Major-General and three brilliant and beautiful women.For the initiated 'a recruiting tool for revolutionary dreams.'By Desmond DilgThe author says in an introductory note; 'From original documents preserved from utter destruction in a very remarkable manner this book has been written. The...
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    44,55 €

  • Wretched of France
    Abdellali Hajjat / Andrew Brown
    In 1983--as France struggled with race-based crimes, police brutality, and public unrest--youths from Vénissieux (working-class suburbs of Lyon) led the March for Equality and Against Racism, the first national demonstration of its type in France. As Abdellali Hajjat reveals, the historic March for Equality and Against Racism symbolized for many the experience of the children o...
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    50,02 €

  • Wretched of France
    Abdellali Hajjat / Andrew Brown
    In 1983--as France struggled with race-based crimes, police brutality, and public unrest--youths from Vénissieux (working-class suburbs of Lyon) led the March for Equality and Against Racism, the first national demonstration of its type in France. As Abdellali Hajjat reveals, the historic March for Equality and Against Racism symbolized for many the experience of the children o...
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    114,38 €

  • The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
    John Henry Patterson
    The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is a semi-autobiographical book written by British soldier and author John Henry Patterson. Published in 1907, it recounts his experiences in East Africa while supervising the construction of a railroad bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya, in 1898. It is titled after a pair of man-eating lions that terrorized the undertaking for nine months until at las...
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    29,65 €

  • Confucius and Muhammad
    Raphael Israeli
    In the 19th century, the scramble for colonies in Asia and Africa by Western nations produced international power competition. This generated different forms of reactions by the colonized civilizations to the Western impact on their cultures.This volume, Confucius and Muhammad: Contrasting Responses of China and Islam to Western Intrusion, is based on original historical archiv...
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    16,21 €

  • Decoloniality, Language and Literacy
    Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces. ...
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    48,06 €

  • Decoloniality, Language and Literacy
    Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces. ...
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    169,67 €

  • Michael Sata
    Reginald Ntomba
    Sata was a giant figure in Zambia’s political landscape for over thirty years. Reginald Ntomba argues that ’how Sata became president is as thought-provoking a story as what he did with the power he had spent decades fighting for’. He explores the political journey of Michael Sata from councillor to president of Zambia, relating Sata’s policies and approaches to theories of pop...
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    59,90 €

  • Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-African Ideal
    Sehlare Makgetlaneng
    Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-African Ideal draws on experiences in various decades on the ebbs and flows of African continental integration as a common African continental agenda. It attempts to contribute towards the grasp of critical theoretical position on international political economy and its application on the African socio-political, economic and ideological condition. Thi...
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    67,85 €

  • The Kenya Socialist Vol 3.
    The Kenya Socialist exists to: Promote socialist ideas, experiences and world outlook; Increase awareness of classes, class contradictions and class struggles in Kenya, both historical and current; Expose the damage done by capitalism and imperialism in Kenya and Africa; Offer solidarity to working class, peasants and other working people and communities in their struggles for ...
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    32,69 €

  • Remember Um Nyobè
    Modeste Mba Talla
    Plus de cent ans après la naissance de Um Nyobè nous publions dans cet ouvrage des témoignages et des réflexions afin que les morts ne courent plus le risque d’être une fois de plus tués. Nous voulons donner un sens à Um vaincu par la mort. Ce faisant, nous voulons, tout en lui rendant hommage renouer le dialogue entre la mémoire, l’histoire et la violence politique. Cet ouvrag...
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    67,69 €

  • Tears, Fire, and Blood
    James H. Meriwether / James HMeriwether
    In the mid-twentieth century, the struggle against colonial rule fundamentally reshaped the world and the lives of the majority of the world’s population. Decolonization, Black and Brown freedom movements, the establishment of the United Nations and NATO, an exploding Cold War, a burgeoning world human rights movement, all became part of the dramatic events that swept through A...
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    121,52 €

  • There Was Another Country
    John W. Forje / John WForje
    In this comprehensive, well-reasoned, critical, richly documented and boldly argued account on the Anglophone/Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia crisis, John Forje, a foremost scholar of identity politics in Cameroon, offers insightful explorations and explanations of histories and cultures of telling truth to power that have come to be associated with the people of the English-speak...
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    117,31 €

  • The West On Trial
    Cheddi Jagan
    Part autobiography, part anti-colonial history, originally published in 1966 Cheddi Jagan’s The West on Trial: My Fight for Guyana’s Freedom chronicles Dutch, French, and British rivalry for social, political, and economic control of Guyana, as well as the fight for self-determination and independence from colonial rule.Chronicled in these illuminating pages is life on the suga...
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    26,86 €

  • The Dark Side of News Fixing
    Syed Irfan Ashraf
    This book provides a local journalist’s perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. Fixers are local journalists hired to help global media outlets in developing news stories on wars. The book shows how the fixers’ risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan b...
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    180,24 €

  • Social Policy in the African Context
    The ’counter-revolution’ in Development Economics in the 1980s fundamentally altered the way the state ’thinks’, which is evident in the state’s retrenchment and reconstitution of the state’s relationship to its citizens. The combination of deflationary macroeconomic policies and a residual approach to social policy, broadly, and social provisioning, more specifically, fundamen...
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    59,30 €

  • Historical Trajectories of Catholicism in Africa
    Valentine Ugochukwu Iheanacho
    The book masterfully knits together the various curves and routes traveled so far by the Catholic Church in Africa. From an African perspective, the book presents a general trajectory of Catholicism on the continent by highlighting some significant events and moments in the evolution of the Catholic Church in Africa. It equally profiles the Vatican’s policy of indigenization as...
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    35,51 €

  • Decision in Africa
    W. Alphaeus Hunton / WAlphaeus Hunton
    In this under-recognized work of economic and political scholarship, Hunton examined the history of the economic exploitation of Africa, the contributions of this exploitation to the economic development of Europe and North America, and potential paths for economic development for the newly liberated countries. Most importantly, he documented the emerging anti-imperialist and c...
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    27,73 €

  • Historical Trajectories of Catholicism in Africa
    Valentine Ugochukwu Iheanacho
    The book masterfully knits together the various curves and routes traveled so far by the Catholic Church in Africa. From an African perspective, the book presents a general trajectory of Catholicism on the continent by highlighting some significant events and moments in the evolution of the Catholic Church in Africa. It equally profiles the Vatican’s policy of indigenization as...
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    21,82 €

  • The break-up of Greater Britain
    Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that unravelled during the decades of global decolonisation ...
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    157,00 €


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